Dollar Store Blues

I was browsing the local dollar store recently and I came across an under-the-cupboard battery powered LED light. The plan is to add the blue glow under the skirt of my Ironside. I then started thinking that, with the price of blue LEDs being so expensive (usually in low quantities they are about $0.50 to [...]

 
Ooo, look at my skirt.

The skirt was put together over the last few days When I made Mini-Me one of the worst parts of putting the skirt together was the lack of edge to glue the pieces to each other. Mini-Me had a brass tube frame to hold everything together in the skirt. This was not the best success; [...]

 
This is your brain on Slurm

I got an email asking how my Bender was doing and if I had done any additional work. I have and here is an update. Bender’s body compared to this I built up the body from the cylinder of card and used foam core to add ribs all around the body, giving the slope effect [...]

 
Mini-Me appearance was quite moving

Before we went to Chicago Tardis I upgraded Mini-Me from being essentially a stationary Dalek to a moving Dalek. Previous attempts had caused the Dalek to whiz down the driveway going too fast.  Then after about using it 5-6 times on carpet I heard the dreaded stripping of gears sound. The gears stripped because I [...]

 
A new year, a new dalek

Over the Christmas break I started work on a new scale dalek. This will be an Ironside dalek. I have completed the base and am now in the process of strengthening it. The skirt is cut out and I need to cut some more pieces out then I will be able to glue it together. [...]

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