The armed forces of Gallifrey were the military forces that served in defense of the planet Gallifrey and its society of Time Lords.
During the Last Great Time War, the armed forces fought the Dalek Empire through out space, time, and beyond.
During the War, Gallifreyans were pulled from their normal jobs to serve in the army.
It was from this “militia” that the Gallifreyan Guard were formed.
Tomorrow a well known Dr Who “Character”.
The Time Lords, also known by many other names like “the Sun Builders”, “the Watchmakers”, the Gods of the Fourth, the Superiors, the “Shadow People”, “the House-Dwellers”, “the Lords of Jewel”, the Archons of Time, and the “Race of Temporal Supremacy”.
The Time Lords were inhabitants of the planet Gallifrey, who were most famous for the creation and attempted monopolisation of time travel technology. They created and upheld the Laws of Time after establishing the Web of Time to keep the universe rational.
Time Lords were sensitive to timelines, being able to see “all that is, all that was, all that ever could be,” but also “what must not [be]”.
They had an instinctive urge to stay away from events that would always happen. They were seen as immortal, or nearly so, partially due to their ability to regenerate. They had a great place in the mythologies and cultures of other civilisations, being outright called “the Gods” by several species, including the very aptly named Minyans, and the Gendar.
The ancient Time Lords were known to take part in battles and conflicts, often helping to hunt species known to be dangerous. One of the last of these was a war against the Great Vampires, which was so long and bloody that they turned against violence in general.
One account of this war called them the angels. For at least part of their history, the Time Lords adhered to a strict policy of non-interference. Despite their attempts to keep up an appearance of being uninterested in the affairs of others, they still sent discreet missions where other Time Lords would act on their behalf.
Time Lord General.
On one occasion, the Fourth Doctor was instructed to intercept the creation of the Dalek race, a step which eventually led to a war between the two species.
General leading his troops.
By the time of the Sixth Doctor, the Time Lords had reigned in “absolute power” for ten million years. During the final day of the Time War, it was claimed the history of the Time Lords spanned “a billion years”.
This model is from Black Tree Design that have a great range but atrocious customer service.
Rassilon was, alongside Omega, Tecteun and the Other, one of the founders of Time Lord civilisation. In their own time, Rassilon was chiefly an engineer, a politician, and an architect, but later Time Lord society would hail him as the first Time Lord and the single greatest figure of Gallifreyan history. However, some Time Lords contended that Rassilon was a corrupt megalomaniac who tried to murder their friend Omega and stole their invention.
Rassilon
After his physical death, Rassilon stayed active in the Matrix, ruling Gallifey from the shadows as the leader of the Matrix Lords, and manipulated the Doctor into performing many missions for him. During the Last Great Time War, he was resurrected from the Matrix to lead the Time Lords, becoming “Rassilon the Resurrected”, and he ultimately tried to find ways to break the time lock and escape the War. After the Doctor saved Gallifrey, and the Time Lords returned Gallifrey to N-Space from its pocket universe, Rassilon was overthrown and banished in a coup led by the Twelfth Doctor. Desiring revenge, Rassilon allied with a colony of Cybermen at the end of the universe, being converted into the Cyber-President, and created an alternate timeline where the Cybermen conquered all of history. However, Rassilon and the Twelfth Doctor ultimately erased this timeline from existence after the Cybermen betrayed the former, once again leaving Rassilon alone at the end of the universe.
Rassilon
Rassilon directing troops.
Time lord
Most of this information was obtained from the TARDIS fANDOM
You would have noticed why I don’t paint eyes. Whenevr I try they turn out like Black and White minstrels! So repainted back to no eyes!
They look slightly less goofy now!
Tomorrow the second of the Gallifreyan Guard units.
This set of Gallifreyan Guard includes a Captain of the Guard with Staser Pistol, Three Guardsmen with Fusion Blaster Rifles, and one Guardsman with with a Heavy fusion Blaster.
The Doctor’s home planet, Gallifrey, having allowed itself to be drawn into the Last Great Time War, was suddenly faced with a great crisis necessitating the raising of troops to do battle.
The Gallifreyan Guards were brave and loyal militia, drafted in to defend Gallifrey from the overwhelming threat of the invading Daleks. They were the last line of defence, responsible for defending the Citadel from threats at all costs. They answered to the General, himself under command from Lord President Rassilon.
In the final days of the Time War, these brave soldiers were there on the front line to witness total devastation. Arcadia, once thought to be the safest place on the planet, protected by four hundred sky trenches, was penetrated by the huge Dalek saucer invasion fleet and destroyed, the Gallifreyan Guards hopelessly outnumbered.
Tomorrow the Time Lords President Rassilon, Time Lord General, and a Time Lord.
The Headless Monks, also known as the Order of the Headless, were a religious order who believed in listening to their hearts rather than their minds, to the point of having themselves beheaded.
As they were headless, the Headless Monks did not register as living beings. They were also supposedly incapable of being fooled or surprised or of feeling fear. Despite their lack of heads, the Monks were able to detect where other beings were. They could fire energy blasts from their hands, as well as channelling that energy into the swords they carried.
It was a Level One Heresy, punishable by death, to attempt to lower the hood of a Headless Monk. The group followed an entity known as the Papal Mainframe. Although the monks considered it a heresy to reveal their headless state to outsiders, they were apparently able to do so under the orders of the Mainframe.
Not all inductees to the Order of the Headless had their heads kept in boxes. The boxes were apparently reserved for the very wealthy, while the rest of the monks’ heads were left to rot on shelves in a cave full of skulls called the Seventh Transept. Despite this, the skulls were still ‘alive’ in a sense, capable of moving about and attacking others. The heads kept in ceremonial boxes were even better preserved: Dorium Maldovar was still very active and in full possession of his memories and personality when visited by the Eleventh Doctor.
Information thanks to Tardis Fandom
Tomorrow I was going to paint the Papal Mainframe as it follows on from this post. However, because I had mixed a whole lot of red shades for these I decided to bring forward my Gallifreyan Guard and Time Lords which are also various shades of red.
So the Papal Mainframe will have to wait a few days.
I plan on using this model as the tank selection for my Chindit, Burma army which will still be some way off before I start painting it. The army can be quite powerful with Chindits, Gurkhas, and Australian Commandos, but it is not a priority at the moment.
After all the dramas of losing the turret this is how it finally turned out.
Over the many episodes down the years there have been a number of U.N.I.T. heroes. I am going to stick with those provided in the Warlord Heroes pack.
The most famous and most beloved of fans is surely Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart.
Brigadier Sir Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, generally referred to simply as the Brigadier, is a fictional character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, created by writers Mervyn Haisman and Henry Lincoln and played by Nicholas Courtney.
The Character first appeared in the Web of Fear (I will get to painting this set up in due course), in 1968.
When the Third Doctor was exiled to Earth, he became UNIT’s unofficial scientific advisor, providing the Brigadier with much-needed support against Autons, Sea Devils, Daleks and the Master.Colonel – later Brigadier – Alistair Gordon Lethbridge Stewart was the commanding officer of UNIT, an international body tasked with investigating extra-terrestrial threats. He first met the Second Doctor – helping him free London from the clutches of the Great Intelligence and the Cybermen.
Later in life, he retired from UNIT and taught at a boarding school. Later still he aided the Seventh Doctor in vanquishing Morgaine, before settling down for good with his wife Doris.
It was during his battle with the Silence, that the Eleventh Doctor learned the Brigadier had passed away peacefully in his sleep in 2050.
Sergeant John Benton is anlother fictional character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, played by John Levene. He was the senior NCO of the British contingent of UNIT.
Corporal, and later Sergeant Benton was a loyal UNIT sergeant of many years standing. In service he fought Cybemen, Daleks, Sea Devils and poisonous giant maggots amongst others.
He was once accidentally regressed back to a baby (a process which was reversed!) and also helped the Doctor’s first three incarnations unite to defeat Omega. Later he became a Regimental Sergeant Major.
According to the Brigadier, he left UNIT and became a used car salesman.
Captain James “Jimmy” Munro (The Devil Goblins from Neptune) was a UNIT officer who served under Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart. He was assigned to cordoning off Oxley Woods after the second fall of Nestenemeteorites and was the first to come across the TARDIS and the Third Doctor. When the story leaked to the press, he refused to answer the reporters’ questions.
He later helped the Doctor defeat the Nestene invasion, during which he interrogated Sam Seeley and was forced by a Nestene duplicate of Major General Scobie to hand over a Nestenemeteorite.
He was then part of a raid on the Auto Plastics factory that fought a squad of Autons. (Spearhead from Space, Who Killed Kennedy)
Munro later went back to the regular army, (The Scales of Injustice) but later went to work at UNIT Central Control in Geneva. (The Devil Goblins from Neptune)
In an alternate timeline, Munro attained the rank of general in UNIT. (Prisoners of the Sun). Munro is more well known from the Dr Who literature than the TV series.
The U.N.I.T. force so far. Five infantry sections, two, support teams and three heroes. There are another four or five sections to complete.
Tomorrow something different.
I have come up with an awesome prize for the winner of Name that Aussie and you are not going to believe it. Forget your battle in a box this is battle in a matchbox!
Photo courtesy of Irregular Miniatures.
A complete British and a complete German Army in 2mm from Irregular miniatures. That’s right two, REPEAT TWO, complete armies just for entering Name that Aussie.
The prize is valued at 25 pounds sterling which is what I paid for it over ten years ago and Irregular Miniatures are still selling them at that same price! Great people at irregular!
I will even throw in some scenics and some AA Guns in sand bag emplacements.
All of this for just entering Name that Aussie competition.
This one is inspired by a comment from mate Steve N: “Put Sly in a slouch hat and there’s a whole new platoon!”
A little bit of conversion and Sly Marbo has been painted up to represent “Kokoda Kev” or whatever name you can come up with.
So that’s the competition. Comment on this post with your ideal name to win a wonderful surprise!
A fifth U.N.I.T. infantry section. Only twenty more to go!
Tomorrow some U.N.I.T. Commander, just for a change.
A French Foreign Legion Watchtower has been besiged by an unholy alliance of native tribes. A force has been dispatched from Fort Agadez, a lonely French desert outpost in Algeria.
Leaving en-masse the Legionnaires quickly come under attack from a group Bedouin.
The route towards the tower is now blocked by some River Arabs.
The tower has proven impossible to take so far and an ancient artillery piece has been brought into play. Unbeknown to the Arab players they shoot with three dice and a triple of any number is required to breach the tower walls.
More Arabs moving to intercept the Legionnaires.
A strong force of legionairres is now on both sides of the river.
The Bedouin Hero decides to attack his own tribal leader for failing to move his troops forward. The unit leader was diced up as a coward and would not engage the enemy. Not only did the hero not succeed but he was killed in the process creating a vacuum in leadership.
Legionairres gradually moving forward. The troops on the right side of the river were bearing the brunt of the main forces allowing those on the left to advance more quickly. The road was now open for them with very little resistance in front of the French cavalry.
With only one man left on the right of the river the fort was in danger of being attacked directly.
Although significantly outnumbered they had fought on bravely and reduced the Bedoiun to a spent force.
The sole French atling gun and shooting from the fort proved decisive and had releived the Tower although with significant losses. with most of the men of the three Arab tribes causalities it would take almost a generation for them to be able to cause problems again.