I watched this video on Youtube and liked it so much that I was inspired to do a quick drawing (click the image for a larger version):

Prior to adding that swanky blur effect, I took the background from Justice League Task Force for the SNES. It wasn't a very good game.

And so my time in Davros's stead comes to a close with the completion of the first and ostensibly final Dalek production run. This is not to say that there will be no more Wesros Daleks -- I'll probably end up making a couple more and/or modifying some of the existing ones at some point in the coming weeks, given that I've still got an excess of Dalek-making materials -- but it is to say that I'll be in no hurry to see Daleks #8 on up realized. Even in the absence of certain steps, the creation of homemade Daleks is an extremely tedious process. Quite frankly, I've gotten fucking sick of it!

If all goes well, I'll chronicle my Dalek-making adventures this weekend and have the resultant Scary-Crayon article up on Monday.

Speaking of making Daleks, by the way, I rather like these. EXTERMINATE!

Aaaaand the Dalek madness continues with this triple game review on Scary-Crayon! Two of the games discussed therein are Flash games and the other is available for download at the Home of the Underdogs, so interested parties are encouraged to participate in the Dalekmania in their own homes. OBEY THE DALEKS!

The Dalek madness continues in my room as well. (more...)

I know, I know -- enough with the Daleks, right? WELL, I happened to find this link -- The Ultimate Dalek Factory -- yesterday evening and just about lost my mind. A BONA-FIDE PATTERN FOR CONSTRUCTING A HOMEMADE DALEK!!! Perfect. I haven't made one yet, though, since the pattern was kind of crude-looking and needed a bit of fixing up IMHO... so after spending hours and hours and hours and hours with my nose several millimeters away from the LCD screen, I ended up with this -- note that I've mirrored it so that the plans can be glued back to back, such that one ends up with a "pure" surface without losing the necessary information for putting the blasted thing together. You will note from the filename, by the way, that this set of plans has been designated "9b", suggesting (rightly, I might add) that I have made a whole bunch of sets of plans for Daleks with different color schemes. I haven't actually constructed any of them yet -- at some point this week I'm thinking I'll go buy some of that glossy photo paper for the occasion, though I may try making a test one beforehand to see how it goes. In the meantime, you're welcome to try your hand at this standard one. 🙂

Ultimately, however, I think the best homemade Dalek will result from a combination of this and previous methods. A la my second homemade Dalek -- at least for certain color schemes -- brass fasteners (or brass fasteners colored black with a sharpie) can be used for the Dalek bumps on the body. The limbs and eyestalk should be made of something less flat in order to preserve the more 3D qualities of the model. (As you can tell, I'm quite fond of using screws for the eyestalk.) Hey, speaking of 3D Daleks, check out these Lego designs.

Yes, I am totally in the grip of the Daleks' power at the moment. And why shouldn't I be? These things are badass! There should be Dalek-flavored ice cream.

I bet it would taste like pistachio.

Putting those brass fasteners in was incredibly tedious. (more...)