Dalek (Ironside)

 

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 a $1) the cost of this light is $2 and all the LEDs are mounted on a PCB.
I remembered how wiring 34 LEDs in parallel on my Book of Pure Evil. Whilst not hard, it was very time consuming.

I bought one of these and tested it. Yes! Blueish and bright enough in a bright room to still see the blue (if a little focused).

I took it apart and it looks like this.

I may add an additional diffuser over the lens to take away the blue dots from the lights

I will need about another 10 or so of these to go all the way around.

 

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; it held but there are cracks down the seams between skirt pieces.
For this new one, I cut out the the pieces of the skirt, then stuck foam board to each one as a backing and the foam board made the pieces thicker.
I also made interlocking flaps and tags so that the foam board went over the gap. The result is that the skirt feels much stronger and a little heavier.
Here are some pictures from different stages.

 
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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