Hey gang,

So- at last, finished Season 18 shirt pics. This was an early rush shirt Size XL to meet one of the buyer's deadlines. The remainder are being finished/embroidered now and will be ready for shipping in 10-14 days. I'll announce her and email everyone about shipping when ready.

The 2nd run of these will commence mid July - Deadline July 16th. Still have a handful of open slots left for a max of 25. $115.00 per shirt. Shipping due at the end of the 4 week turnaround from payment. If you want to jump on comment here or email/PM me.

http://dw-cosplay.livejournal.com/1295070.html



More pics ( Under the Cut )

-honoradrydoctor

The 3rd Doctor shirts for Terror of the Autons Season 8 look is now a go and will run [B]$135.00[/B] - no embroidery but these take a little more fabric to make and the patterning work is slightly more complex. But they will have mild contrast cream ruffles on white, long wide collar, short ruffled cuffs and the zip front. The only thing we're not doing is replicating the mild faint striping in the body of the shirt which isn't visible much on screen anyway due to lighting. But in terms of keeping costs down I felt it was an acceptable detail to let go. If we can get a significant amount more- say over 20 people (25 max), I can probably get this down to $120 or so.

I'm going to set the due date on this as the same as the 2nd Baker run as there appears to be almost no crossover there - [B]July 16th. [/B] Happy to take add-ons until then! Also We need to stay in the S-XL size range if we can help it for this first run. If you fall outside of this, we'll do what we can but may have to default you to a second run.

My tailor is has a clean slate then and can happily toggle both projects so both can be completed (with embroidery) in about 4-5 weeks.



Ruffled Info and more ( Under the Cut )

Hey,

So after getting the ball officially rolling on these Seaosn 18 shirts I was discussing some other run options with my tailor. Doing a run of coat is still tricky even at volume to bring into what seems to the the accepted group run price range of $75-$110.00 USD each. However she made it clear shirt runs are not a problem and easy to keep low cost if we always manage a minimum of 10-12 people. So looking over various Doctor shirts - the 1st and 8th wear a fairly standard dressy wingtip collar shirt- easily bought online or in a shop. Standard dress shirt (and fairly common colors) pretty much apply to the 7th and 10th Doctor and Mid-Late Williams' era 4th Doctor. 9th Doctor didn't wear one.

So that leaves the following options/ideas for future runs:

-A 2nd Doctor shirt run with blousy/puffy cut-off short sleeves and a soft long floppy collar.

-A 3rd Doctor frilled shirt, long/wide collar with zip front - Season 7 or 8 style. We could open this up to his later colored shirts as well but I'd start there.

-A 4th Doctor Season 12 dress shirt with the window check pattern done through spoonflower

-A 4th Doctor period late 19th century high collar 'pirate' shirt circa Season 14.

-Future runs of the 4th Doctor S18 Shirt.

-Standard 5th Doctor S19 or S21 modification with embroidery shirt runs (although this would be a long way off to give pikmin ample room on his current run.)

-Standard 6th Doctor Gingham/embroidery Shirt Run (ditto above).

-Possible 11th Doctor shirts- but honestly stevericks already makes a great replica of a couple of them, itailor or one of the similar sites can knock together a decent fascimile of a couple and the blue is fairly common to match decently. The only one I think worth looking at doing seriously would be the fine windowpane check from Series 6/Xmas Carol. I won't rule it out but I consider this fairly well covered for now and I'd prefer to start on the classic Doctors first anyway (unless demand proves me wrong).

So I just want to gauge possible demand on these. Which ones people are more interested in than others. (if 10 or more vote for one style I'm happy to get that ball rolling)

These certainly wouldn't all happen at once. I'll probably stagger them every 1-2 months beginning in mid-summer when we round to the 2nd run of S18 Shirts. 1st runs of any shirt would still be S-XL sizes. 2nd runs can include larger/smaller sizes.

Anything involving spoonflower will kick the price up about $25 or so due to the higher cost of the fabric. So expect a S12 or 11th Doctor shirt to run a bit higher. I might be able to get the cost lower on the 5th/6th Doctor or 2nd Doctor shirts as that would be modifying standard dress shirts.

So for now assume $105 range on these each and $130 or so for anything involving spoonflower.

I figured these are still distinctive items of Who clothing that a lot of us would like nice versions of but are often looked over for the other items/outerwear.

Let me know your thoughts!

2nd Doctor Shirt (white version - 60s)
1. saltheref (GB)
2. adam_e (GB)
3. jamiebate (GB) tenative
4. second doctor fan (GB) tenative
5. doctorpancakes (dwcosplay)
6. Vann (dwcosplay) tenative
7. Tom G. (ref) XL

3rd Doctor white ruffle shirt/zip front Season 8 style
See thread.

4th Doctor Season 12 check shirt
1. timelord25 (GB)
2. bigfinishfan (GB)
3. adam_e (GB)

4th Doctor Season 14 "pirate" shirt
1. timelord25 (GB)
2. Dave Ward (RPF)
3. Greyhound1 (GB)
4. greyhound1 #2 (GB)
5. Greyhound1 #3 (GB)

11th Doctor Series 5 PS Shirt:
1. Chronos (GB) Burgandy
2. Jamiebate (GB)
3. essential_sin (DWcosplay) Burgandy - M or L
4. essential_sin (dwcosplay) Blue M or L
5. HaroldVanBraun (RPF) Tenative - Size ?
6. Ull Dar Borealis (RPF) Blue - 3XL
7. Ull Dar Borealis (RPF) Burgandy - 3XL


-honorarydoctor

So a nice little addendum to this project:

Paul (the current owner of the TVM console) hit it off with Philip Segal who produced the Doctor Who TVM in '96. Phil after seeing the conole nicely restored and cared for decided to invite Paul over recently to bequeath some other TVM items for safe keeeping as he was about to move house. Paul received a signed script book, a chess set, an original post/staff form the Eye of harmony set- the same one used by McGann and Roberts during the final battle! and most importantly - the Doctor's Toolkit Bag! As a bonus a number of the tool props were STILL inside including the original TVM SONIC SCREWDRIVER! How cool is that! Paul is over the moon to have these.

There are talks now of bringing the Console back to Gallifrey One in 2013 (With a moving rotor this time) and if it happens, these will certainly be on display as well.



-hoonorarydoctor

So I know demand for these is not as strong as it once was thanks to drhojr and CCP's previous runs of Spring '10, Fall '10 and summer '11.

But I'm going to put an interest thread feeler out for another run of these- (Techically the 6th run as drwhojr did 5 and CCP did 1). This is for a finished umbrella pulled from a drwhojr style master as the originator of the acrylic rod solution - TooManyCars on the RPF - loaned one of his original to have a mold made.

More Pics and Info ( Under the Cut )




-Honorarydoctor

So there's been a fresh swell of demand for a 2nd S21 Sweater run - happy to start the interest list. Expect the cost to be around $90-95 USD or so per sweater. I'l look at fixing the trim stretch issue that plagued the first run (though it looked the part!)

1st run: http://dw-cosplay.livejournal.com/631821.html


1st Round S21 Sweater

Season 21 Sweater Info and more ( Under the Cut )

So I promised a breakdown of our costumes and I decided to start in order so here we go:


(Photo by Scott Sebring)

More Pics and Info ( Under the Cut )



So that's how we knocked together a One costume in 3 weeks. I'd like to still upgrade the vest and coat (and heck, even the cane and wig - not to mention replace the hat which was sadly lost and also why it was never seen
at the con) but it's a good starter version.

VanDonovan handled the Two costume and perhaps can be persuaded to do a Two breakdown for you guys. Otherwise there's this lovely Post here for Two:

http://community.livejournal.com/dw_cosplay/117653.html#cutid1

And from wulfae this FANTASTIC Two Breakdown for all your Two needs:
http://community.livejournal.com/dw_cosplay/150399.html#cutid1

And with that said, I'll be moving on tomorrow with a Three Breakdown.

-honorarydoctor

So moving on with the breakdowns with The Third Doctor.

And in the event VanDonovan doesn't want to do a breakdown on Two there's a Post on that costume here:
http://community.livejournal.com/dw_cosplay/117653.html#cutid1


(Photo by Scott Sebring)

More info and pics on Three ( Under The Cut )

And voila! One Third Doctor in a thrice ready for some Venusian Akido!



Hope this helps any potential Three cosplayers. I know we're heavily debating going for one of Petwee's later iterations next - probably the Green or Brown looks he had in later Season 10.

With that said, tomorrow I'll be moving on to my very favorite Who costume of all time. My pride and joy - the Four Breakdown.

-honorarydoctor

Hey Gang,

For those who missed out on the first run of these win the first half of 2010, then you're in luck as Russ is offering another run of these beauties.



The price has gone down due to some alt. suppliers and the minimum for this run is 20 people. (total - any style)
Price list below- includes worldwide shipping.

SOUND TOM BAKER $130 SHIPPED!
SOUND DAVSION $130 SHIPPED!
SOUND PERTWEE $140 SHIPPED!

These Sonics will be identical in size and look to non-Sound Sonics but will include a sound ship which will activate the Classic Sonic Sound Effect when the spring action is pulled down. These are all machined aluminum and have spring loaded action.

More info ( Under the Cut )

Thanks for looking,

-honorarydoctor

Moving on to Part 3 of the Breakdowns with the almighty Four.


(Photo By Scott Sebring)

First I have to say that the 4th Doctor is my favorite. Like a lot of Americans, I grew up watching Tom Baker on PBS in the 1980s and to me he was, and in many ways still is, THE Doctor full stop. It took quite a while in the late 80's for me to NOT change the channel when I saw "the old guy in the velvet coat" or "the young blonde dude" or the "three stooges Moe looking guy" or the "rainbow clown Doctor" instead of the Real Deal - Tom Baker. It's kinda like when you're used to the Voltron Lions and then you suddenly see that space car malarky. Ugh. However! I became a full-fledged converted fan around '89 and I have since come to like pretty much all of the Doctors. But I digress...

So roll on the Four breakdown.

More Info and pics ( Under the Cut )

And that's the Four Costume.


(Photo By Vickie Sebring)

Hope this helps anyone looking to make or upgrade thier own Four.

-honorarydoctor