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Wednesday, 2 March 2011

25mm Daleks


My mate Keir is a Dr Who freak, he brought in some of the unpainted Daleks that he got free with a Dr Who magazine, the one's that we've all seen floating around various blogs over the last couple of weeks. As I painted up the Tardis for him last year he asked if I could paint the 5 Daleks above, they looked quite easy so I agreed. How wrong was I?? Tthey took ages to get finished, the silver dots were the problem, to paint the main colour I had to apply several thin layers of paint to each figure, to stop the paint clogging and cracking around the dots. Then I painted the dots black as per the photo I'd found on a Dr Who website, only for Keir to have stroppy meltdown saying that the dots were supposed to be silver, sigh!!!!
He also has a Dr Who figure, from Heresy painted by my good friend The Angry Lurker, as well as the Tardis, which both are based up, so I had to figure out how to base them, after several false starts I went with the spacship floor look, which is just Vallejo Gunmetal Grey, but I think it looks quite effective.
Also while I was just finishing the last Dalek, I had a request from Keir's wife Susan, could she have her own purple Dalek!! Out came the paints again!!! So we have the very first girlie Dalek, who looks ravashing in her purple gown.




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19 comments:

  1. Atlas2 March 2011 at 09:49

    Saw this, then turned around to look for the nearest phone boot :/

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  2. John Lambshead2 March 2011 at 09:51

    Very nice extermination squad.

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  3. baxxman2 March 2011 at 10:09

    Well done! Must have been a lot of work
    http://baxxmans.blogspot.com/

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  4. mekelnborg2 March 2011 at 10:33

    I CAME HERE TODAY!!

    GOOD PURPLE DALEK BRO!!

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  5. iFelix2 March 2011 at 10:55

    I still can't take those daleks seriously...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY3Cg7KQ3l0

    However you have done a really nice paint job on them.

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  6. Paul´s Bods2 March 2011 at 14:03

    Bloody excellent!! I know waht you mean about the bloody dots...a real paint to paint.
    The colour scheme...there´s loads;
    http://www.daleklinks.co.uk/gallery/steve-redfearn/tv21-emperor-dalek
    and this is one of the best graphic art stories going;
    http://www.mechmaster.co.uk/cg-lair/daleks/secemp00.htm
    I really girly Dalek would be pink though...now there´s an idea! :-D
    Cheers
    Paul

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  7. Paul´s Bods2 March 2011 at 14:04

    I must be drunk!! A real paint to paint??? :-X

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  8. Ray Rousell2 March 2011 at 19:47

    Thanks guys!!
    @mekelnborg - LOL!!
    @iFelix - Disco Daleks I did join in with the hand movements!!
    @Paul - Good links, Them darn daleks were a real liquid mixture, usually of a solid pigment in a liquid vehicle, used as a decorative or protective coating. Sorry I meant pain too!!

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  9. Kicking Rocks2 March 2011 at 22:35

    thast awesome!! weres the tardis!?

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  10. Ray Rousell2 March 2011 at 23:01

    That's for another post!!!

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  11. Paul O'G3 March 2011 at 06:50

    Sweet work mate!

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  12. The Happy Whisk3 March 2011 at 09:07

    Very cool. We just started watching Doctor Who on Netflix, instants. Great paint. Love the colors. Thanks for stopping by my blog earlier.

    Happy Painting and Happy Eating. Hope you're enjoying your strawberry ice cream on toast.

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  13. Patti D.3 March 2011 at 09:59

    since I came to the uk I've seen doctor who many times, but I just don't like it!

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  14. The Happy Whisk4 March 2011 at 00:18

    Patti: You don't like it at all? Really, but it's so fun. Though I do like the one doctor, can't recall his name, better than the other. Can't recall his name either but that's because I'm so full from supper, I can barely think.

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  15. Simon4 March 2011 at 02:58

    When they introduced these "new paradigm Daleks", they were not appreciated much by the fans and where called iDaleks or even "Teletubbies Daleks". So the purple one only complete the set...

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  16. DJ Kettlety6 March 2011 at 10:10

    I know what you mean about how much effort Daleks take to paint - as a long time fan of DW I was painting 25mm Daleks in the 80s. I'll see if I can find some photos from back then for my blog.

    I did get these Daleks (surprise surprise) and the Cybermen and Sontarns that they gave away the following week. Looks like I've a lot of painting to catch up on.

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  17. Ray Rousell6 March 2011 at 20:42

    I must say I was pleased with the way they came out, it's the first plastic I've painted for about 10 years, so get that paintbrush out and lets see them photo's.

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  18. rhingley7 March 2011 at 13:23

    Ah, the letter E. Eliminate, eradicate and exterminate!! Great paint job.

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  19. Unknown15 March 2011 at 21:42

    Umm Ray, I like my purple Dalek thingy but, now can I have a pink one pretty please??????? :o)

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