Rob’s Terrible Tomb Of Tat

…and you will know me by the typing of the dead.

  • Robot Monster (Comic Strip)

    Robot Monster is one of my favourite films to chill out to and this is one of the scenes in the film I love the most. I took a few liberties in giving The Great One and Ro-Man a bit of a spookier appearance but I didn’t want to shift too far from the pretty much perfect space helmet and gorilla suit of the film. I mean, mainly because it’s brilliant.

    Like a lot of the more notorious films that get caught up in some sort of nerd-hell induced “worst film ever” canon, it’s mainly just kind of a nice, fairly entertaining and most definitely harmless watch. I would sooner Robot Monster than anything in the entire Christopher Nolan catalogue, right? Give me the space helmets and bubbles any day.

    For reasons I won’t go into now, I find Robot Monster pairs exceptionally well with Doctor Who And The Sontaran Experiment. Both only take an hour each to watch too and, well, you don’t want to know how many times I’ve crammed a double bill in but it is genuinely a lot.

  • Flying Saucers (Comic Book)

    Again with the spaceships, this time I wanted to try my hand at some comic-y looking flying saucers (comic as in media, not hahaha). They’re pretty blatantly styled around the Forbidden Planet saucer because, well, the Forbidden Planet saucer is one of the best flying saucers ever committed to film.

    I also wanted the window to look like a hastily thrown together sci fi set. No idea if I managed that in the end but it was fun all the same.

    One day, but not today, I will be brave enough to take a pop at Robby The Robot.

  • Spaceships (Cyberman)

    I get bored sometimes and I love spaceships. I *really* love Doctor Who model spaceships more than any other kind too and the Cybermen have, over the years, had a bunch of corkers. And so, I occasionally try my hand at doodling some.

    The Moonbase

    If I had to choose a favourite, it would be a close run thing between the original Tenth Planet ships and these. I reckon The Moonbase would win out by a nose though because they are wonderful 50’s-esque flying saucers and, well, you can’t really beat flying saucers, can you?

    The Wheel In Space

    Possibly the strangest Cybership design in all Who, looking as it does like a meat tenderizer crossed with a vacuum nozzle with some bits stuck on but that’s also why I like them. They’re kind of wrong in their own little way and knocking together model spaceships should result in the odd one or two that, frankly, looks freakish and inexplicable.

    Revenge Of The Cybermen

    The Buck Rogers/Flash Gordon style Cybership from Revenge is undone a little bit by looking more than a bit plasticy in colour but harking back to thirties sparks-out-the-back rocket ship design is always a fantastic choice in my books. And you know, even though it was one of only a few stories the video shop had back in the early VHS years (and so, I watched it loads), I still have a soft spot for the story. I just really dislike the cybermats in it.