Gavin Rymill

Gavin Rymill is a writer, 3D modeller and digital illustrator for various Doctor Who works, most notably for The TARDIS Type 40 Technical Manual, Doctor Who Magazine and The Doctor Who Figurine Collection. Beginning with a Doctor Who fan-site in 2003, his online presence has been "The Mind Robber" (with the avatar of a White Robot from the story of the same name), which is now reflected across Twitter and Facebook.

Digital illustrations published in print
Early magazine work included cutaway illustrations for Doctor Who DVD Files and monsters for Doctor Who Adventures. His first significant book contribution was a dozen renders in Doctor Who: Starships and Spacestations, plus imagery for The Dalek Handbook. He has also supplied cover art for unofficial publications such as Vworp Vworp! and The Celestial Toyroom.

Rymill supplied background elements for Lee Binding's new series movie-style posters in 2012 and 2013 including a Dalek for Asylum of the Daleks, the TARDIS interior for the Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS, St. Paul's Cathedral for The Snowmen, and the Shard for The Bells of Saint John.

In 2018 he supplied a range of full colour renders, line-drawings and technical cutaways for The TARDIS Type 40 Technical Manual.

Cover illustrator

 * DWM 504 - Evolution of the Cybermen (four variant covers plus illustrations)
 * DWM 491 - Dalek Supreme on Skaro
 * DWM 487 - Masters of Earth (plus interior space invasion illustration)
 * DWM 471 - 50 Years of the Daleks
 * DWM 467 - TARDIS on Gallifrey
 * DWM 447 - Every Dalek Ever

Feature writer

 * DWM 471 - Inside a Dalek
 * DWM 471 - The Life and Times of a Dalek!
 * DWM 492 - Back to Skaro
 * DWM 504 - Evolution of the Cybermen
 * DWM 530 - TARDIS Evolution
 * DWM 532 - TARDIS Revolution

3D work for DVD and Blu Ray
Rymill's first official Doctor Who work was on Series 2 vanilla releases and he subsequently worked with Stuart Crouch on all the new series box sets. He then worked for Lee Binding on the classic DVD range with assets supplied as follows: For the 2017 DVD release of Shada, Rymill supplied the 3D assets of the Kraag monster to animator Rob Ritchie for inclusion within the production itself.
 * The Ark (The Ark)
 * Day of the Daleks (Daleks)
 * Death to the Daleks (Dalek)
 * The Krotons (Kroton)
 * The Reign of Terror (TARDIS Exterior)
 * The Mind of Evil (Keller Machine)
 * The Web of Fear (TARDIS)
 * Shada (Kraag)

His most recent work has been to supply all the TARDIS control room 3D assets for the blu ray releases, along with cover and disc elements such as an Earthshock Cyberman, a Plasmaton, and the Supreme Dalek.

Doctor Who Figurine Collection
Rymill has been supplying the Doctor Who Figurine Collection with sculpts and written features since 2013. Typically the written features appear in the issues for which he has sculpted the models, although not always case. Examples where he wrote but didn't sculpt include Issue 116 Patients, Issue 156 Cyber Shade and 159 Cyber Scout.

Most of the features about the construction of the Dalek props are research with (and occasionally co-written by) Jon Green.

Rymill has modelled the following figurines:
 * Every Dalek including the "Rare Dalek" specials, Emperors and Prime Minister
 * Issue 44 - Tenth Planet Cyberman
 * Issue 53 - Moonbase Cyberman
 * Issue 63 - Revenge Cyberleader
 * Issue 69 - Silurian
 * Issue 73 - Quark from The Dominators
 * Issue 75 - Gellguard from The Three Doctors
 * Issue 79 - Mummy from Pyramids of Mars
 * Issue 80 - Wheel Cyberman
 * Issue 81 - Tritovore from Planet of the Dead
 * Issue 82 - Vervoid
 * Issue 84 - Monoid from The Ark
 * Issue 94 - Silver Nemesis Cyberman
 * Issue 95 - Marshman from Full Circle
 * Issue 98 - Attack Cybercontroller
 * Issue 91 - Tomb Cybercontroller
 * Issue 124 - White Robot from The Mind Robber
 * Issue 128 - Mandrell from Nightmare of Eden
 * Issue 130 - The Ancient One from Curse of Fenric
 * Issue 137 - Ice Warrior
 * Issue 140 - Zarbi
 * Issue 146 - Sil from
 * Issue 158 - Davros from Genesis of the Daleks
 * Special 7 - The Face of Boe
 * Special 9 - Mechonoid from The Chase
 * Special 11 - Azal from The Daemons
 * Special 15 - Wirrn from The Ark in Space
 * Special 16 - Kroton
 * Special 21 - Dalek Gunship from Day of the Doctor
 * Special - Yeti from Web of Fear
 * Special - War Machine
 * Special - Aggedor from The Curse of Peladon
 * Console - Season 15
 * Bonus - K9
 * Rare 14 - Dalek Battle Computer

Dalek 63-88
Since 2005, Gavin Rymill has worked with prop researcher Jon Green in analysing and cataloguing the Dalek props in their appearances both on and off screen. This research formed the backbone of many costume features for The Doctor Who Figurine Collection and the DWM 471 feature The Life and Times of a Dalek!

In July 2019, he co-created a YouTube series called Terry Nation Army which made two decades of written research more accessible to people through photos, clips and narration.