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silverfoxstole · 12 hours

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Being an eighth doctor fan is like you’re so well fed you have so many audio stories and books and some comics also but you’re also starving. You haven’t eaten since they made the night of the doctor short for the 50th anniversary and they only gave you a tiny morsel in power of the doctor and you NEED Paul Mcgann on screen as the doctor NOW or you’ll DIE‼️‼️‼️

#spare a thought for those of us who have been existing on such crumbs since 1996 #17 years we had to wait between appearances #doctor who #eighth doctor #paul mcgann #i remember having to wait a year for the first novel #hoping for glimpses of eight in the ones leading up to it #i do want to see paul on screen again #but i really don’t want rtd to do it #just a personal opinion

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Happy 28th anniversary of the Doctor Who TV Movie! (GIFSET 1/5)

Tuesday, May 14, 1996.

Tuesday, May 14, 2024

#we of course had to wait another fortnight in the uk #i can’t believe it’s almost thirty years ago #i feel very old!#doctor who #doctor who 1996 tv movie #paul mcgann #daphne ashbrook #sylvester mccoy #yee jee tso #eighth doctor #grace holloway #seventh doctor #chang lee

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silverfoxstole · 12 hours

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Just some of my favorite Eight/Grace moments....

#i’ve always loved the argument through the letterbox #and the firehose escape #doctor who #doctor who 1996 tv movie #paul mcgann #daphne ashbrook #eighth doctor #grace holloway

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Tuesday, May 14, 1996. The FOX Original Tuesday Night Movie premieres- Doctor Who!

#nicely done! :)#doctor who #doctor who 1996 tv movie #paul mcgann #daphne ashbrook #eighth doctor #grace holloway

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silverfoxstole · 13 hours

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Anyone fancy buying Uncle Monty’s rolls? Yours for £135, 000!

#withnail and i

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silverfoxstole · 19 hours

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Sophie, Sylvester and Paul after their panel on Saturday afternoon.

If you look in front of the pillar to the right of Paul’s head you might spot someone waving… 😉

#i’m just highly amused that i’m in the photo #i do wish i could have stayed longer but there we are #maybe another time #sophie aldred #sylvester mccoy #paul mcgann #portsmouth comic con

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silverfoxstole · 23 hours

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Quick question for those who’ve heard Robots 6: how much is the Doctor actually in The Final Hour? I’d really like to hear what happens with him and Liv but don’t want to fork out twenty quid if it’s just a cameo.

#thanks!#doctor who #the robots #big finish #eighth doctor #liv chenka

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silverfoxstole · 23 hours

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Bears, bears, bears! Bears everywhere! And Doctor Who bears at that, made specially for and presented by me to Paul McGann, Sophie Aldred and Sylvester McCoy at Portsmouth Comic Con.

As most of you probably know, I document my bear-making activities on here and I made an Eighth Doctor bear a couple of years ago, followed by a Seventh Doctor last summer. Ace was a new one, and because of that I ended up making two, the first as a prototype that I kept for myself, working out the details of the costume, particularly the jacket, and the second for Sophie.

Back in February when I decided to make Anne Bearleyn I found that my usual type of fur was unavailable so I had to go looking for another, ending up with something that while it looked lovely was fairly hellish to sew as it shed everywhere. It was all I had when it came to making the first Ace bear, however, and so I went with that. Afterwards, having got covered in fluff again, I tried to find something similar to the fur I’d used for most of my previous bears, but when it arrived and I started putting one together decided that when compared to the bear I’d just made it looked cheap and nasty, which was definitely not what I wanted for this particular project. Consequently that fabric went on a one way trip to the bin and I ordered more of the other stuff, resulting in what I’ve termed a ‘furpocalypse’ when I decided to cut and sew three more bears in one day:

I had to vacuum both the room and myself four times, and clean out the sewing machine twice! That fluff gets everywhere, even up your nose! It was worth it in the end, though, as the result looks so nice. As the pile is quite thick I had to glue on the noses and use felt for eyebrows as thread just vanishes, but I think that actually looks better and allows for more expression.

I made a second set of Ace clothes while I was waiting for the fur to arrive; the first jacket had been a bit too small and I’d only had satin to use for the lining which disintegrates as it’s sewn, not something I wanted to give someone as a gift. It was a painstaking job to replicate the badges and decoration on the jacket with felt and embroidery thread, but I was pleased with how it turned out:

The costume is based on one from Remembrance of the Daleks, the skirt and t-shirt made from jersey and the decorations on the latter also of felt. She has a plait, rucksack and baseball bat, as well as a nitro 9 canister in her hand/paw (which I actually swapped out for a better one on Friday but didn’t take any pictures of it). The nitro is attached with velcro and can be exchanged for the bat. My only tiny niggle is that I made the jacket lining the wrong colour, only realising it should be orange when I started rewatching Sophie’s episodes last week, but that’s just my perfectionist side at work and her new owner didn’t mind.

“Aaaaaace!” You can see my original Seventh Doctor bear here; I changed a few things working on the new one, this time using blue eyes and making the jacket in cream rather than brown, mainly as a contrast with the darker fur but also so he would match season 25 Ace. I decided to use red paisley for scarf, tie, hatband and handkerchief, adding a red trim to the last two. The jumper once again took a couple of hours’ work, and as this was a present for Sylvester this time I did embroider question marks and chevrons all the way round!

For the umbrella I cut out several long triangles and stitched them together in imitation of a real brolly, using a bit of a skewer covered in felt for the pole (that’s not the word but I can’t think what to call the middle of a umbrella for the life of me!), to which I attached some jewellery wire pinched from my sister (shh!) twisted into the shape of a question mark. That was then covered in yet more felt. I’ve made a lot of things from felt lately!

And voila: one finished Seventh Doc bear:

I do hope Sylvester spots that he even has spoons in his pocket. 😁

Last but not least, we have Eighth Doctor bear, which I actually started first but I didn’t have enough fabric for his coat so he had to sit and wait while I worked on the others. My original is here; he’s gone through a few costume tweaks as I’ve tried to improve on things and this time I mainly used scraps left over from my own cosplay and made them up in the same way: shirt, scarf, waistcoat, belt and gailters are all the same as mine, and the coat is identical material but from a different source.

His shirt and waistcoat both fasten with buttons, and I made the watch chain and belt buckle from embroidery thread. It took several attempts to get the boots and gaiters right, and I went from having quite a large piece of faux leather to something about a quarter of the size, most of it ending up in the bin! Unlike my Eight bear he has a sonic screwdriver, made from - yes, you guessed it! - felt. Fortunately the TVM sonic is quite a simple design, unlike the other one I made which can be swapped with this one to go with the Dark Eyes outfit I ran up on an impulse because I had scraps left from my own jacket and put in the bag with him; hopefully Paul will find it as that DE sonic took me two attempts to get (somewhat) right!

I changed the shape of the lapels on this new coat so that they were more like the real one, and I also took some pics of him in his Dark Eyes gear:

I confess that he was the one I found it hardest to give up. Look at him:

And he matches me!

I had to keep telling myself that I couldn’t keep him, I’d made him for Paul, but it wasn’t easy!

Finally, a few pics of them together:

I was so, so pleased with the way these turned out. Along with Bush (about whom I’ll post separately), these are the best bears I’ve made so far, and I’m glad that Paul, Sophie and Sylvester were just as happy with them!

#morning reblog for the bears because i was so proud of them #and the reaction they got #long post #sfs’s adventures in sewing #my bears #doctor who bears #it’s always a bit of a lottery how their faces are going to turn out #they’re all made from the same pattern pieces but no two end up being alike #which is nice as it makes them unique #but some end up cuter than others and this eight bear was definitely one of those

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silverfoxstole · 23 hours

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