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Mark Three Travel Machine/Dalek: Kaled-Thal War eraCreated during the final days of the Kaled-Thal War, the Mk 3 travel machine was a formidable weapon, equipped with a powerful 'lighting thrower' gun and powered by heavy-duty external batteries.
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The last is the first! It seemed fitting (since I'd not started with it) to end this little run of Classic Dalek redesigns with my version of the original Dalek - the primitive design that first trundled into Davros' laboratory in Genesis (or might have done, if the budget had stretched).
Hope you've all enjoyed the series! I will finish it off with Time War and New Paradigm drones, but probably not until later in the week. But never mind that - huzzah! Doctor Who returns tonight!
[EDIT 14/11/12: Updated materials]
(The Terry Nation estate and the BBC sort of juggle the rights to the Daleks between them)
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i like the design, great work on the daleks.
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I wish the battery packs rather than the slats had been in use, it would've shown the steady progression of Dalek design; static electricity in the first serial, those dishes mounted on the back in the invasion of Earth, and lastly the traditional slats.Β
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I'm somewhat sympathetic to their budget restrictions - I mean, they had to construct Davros! But it would have been nice if they'd made some effort to at least repaint the Daleks for Genesis . . .
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There's a book about Daleks, and how the timelines around the events in Genesis changed - thanks to those changes the static electricity dependency was changed just like that. I suppose they kept the Daleks grayΒ to make them more menacing.Β
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Awesome! I really love how you've given the Mk. 3 Travel Machines that were the first Daleks' casings a more robust, bulky and riveted design, and how this robust look (especially the utility-belt slats; totally awesome!) is fittingly reminiscent of World War II and likens the Kaled-Thal War to it.
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How did you make this, if you don't mind me asking?
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I don't mind at all!
The model is built and rendered in Blender, the free CGI program (www.blender.org), with the different views put together afterwards in Photoshop Elements. I use the inbuilt renderer in Blender, rather than the 'Cycles' renderer which is also included with it.
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Ah, alright.
I'm really rubbish with Blender, sadly.
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So how is the mutant accessed? Does the head/neck portion just hinge open like the old series Daleks?
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I think at this point, the whole head/neck section would need to be lifted physically off the body to access the insides. May have to show that at some point...
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You know, I really like how you made the front part of the midsection entirely devoid of batteries; it gives the Mk 3 that "incomplete" feel that it needs.
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Thanks - that's sort of what it came to mean, although I think it originally came about because it just wasn't possible to fit more batteries around there! I think it works as a visual bridge in to the 'Dead Planet' version, a hint that that's their 'default' state, even at this stage.
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Ah! When I first saw those extrusions around the shoulders I thought they were like the belts worn by the 'Ironclad' Daleks in Victory of the Daleks, but having read the comments I have picked up they are battery packs! Very cool!
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Thank you! I've always been proud of those battery packs.
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this design predates the city dalek??? O.o so confused.
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This is my version of the Daleks as they were depicted in Genesis of the Daleks (e.g. just after they had been created). I based the design on the Daleks as they first appeared on screen (the 'City Dalek' in my naming convention) but then 'backdated' it to live up to the line 'very primitive but definitely a Dalek.'
This is the first true Dalek, since the travel machines were only named Daleks once they reached the Mark 3 stage - presumably Marks 1 and 2 were just 'Mark 1 travel machine' and 'Mark 2 travel machine'.
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A fair-haired race who originally co-existed on Skaro with a dark-haired race called the Kaleds (and possibly a third race called the Dals). They and the Kaleds were locked in a thousand-year long war, which involved both chemical and nuclear weapons, and led to them both mutating. The Kaleds became Daleks thanks to Davros' interference while the Thals mutations came 'full circle' and they were restored to 'perfect' humanoids.
They appear in two stories on screen, 'The Daleks' and 'Planet of the Daleks', and in 'The Mutant Phase' and 'Brotherhood of the Daleks' audio plays.
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wait, what did davros do? mutate the daleks into what they are now?
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He accelerated the mutations. Basically, while the Kaleds were beginning to mutate, they wouldn't have become Dalek creatures for hundreds, possibly thousands of years. Davros experimented and speeded up the process, because he believed that the Kaled species had to 'evolve' to its ultimate mutated state to survive in the wasteland that Skaro had become due to the war.
He then discovered how physically weak those mutants would be and set about creating the Travel Machine casings. Put the two together and you ended up with the Daleks.
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He didn't just accelerate it, though. He deliberately tampered with the mutants' genetic structure to eliminate their capacity for compassion and empathy and instil an all-consuming hatred for any non-Dalek form of sapient life.
This series - and this piece in particular - are what the script for Genesis called for but the BBC didn't have the budget to deliver. The Doctor's line... "very primitive, but undoubtedly a Dalek", actually makes sense with this design, in the way that it never did when he was facing "very primitive" Daleks that were identical to the fully-evolved ones he'd encountered on Spiradon. You can see the midsection is identical to the very earliest on-screen Daleks, with just the horizontal strip, under those battery packs. Superb!
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Thanks! I'm glad you picked up on the continuity between the First Dalek and the City Dalek - that was another key part in working out what they should look like.
And you're right about Davros' tampering - it's actually quite hard to argue that the Daleks are accountable for their actions, given that they are predisposed and even preprogrammed to act as they do.
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no problemo, tho i would've thought you would've done it like your previous Dalek Evolutions :S
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Oh, don't worry - the evolution picture is coming.This is just to show off the model!
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Ahh cool
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The idea of chunking up the shoulder slats and making them battery packs is a stroke of genius. Also - props for the concave gunstick!
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Thanks - the battery packs were, I think, the idea that really started this project. It struck me as a good way of evoking the actual prop but still differentiating it from the 'modern' Daleks.
And given that rational, of course, how could I not include the crimped gunstick?
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The battery packs are certainly a good double-whammy - both with their appearance tipping the hat to the actual "Genesis" prop's anachronistic shoulder slats, and counting as an "external" power source as required by the most primitive Dalek variants.
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"ALIENS! I MUST EXTERMINATE THEM!"
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Exactly so!
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It's first words! How adorably psychotic
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Imma ready for tonight!
Love the MK3 though! Really reminds me of 'Sec' but in a pre-RTD style.
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Not what I was going for - but I guess the colour scheme does evoke that!
Glad you like it - and only an hour to go!!
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You're welcome for the comment. ^_^
I'm working on my own empire at the moment too. Basically a NSD/NDP mix with a few of them having the back hatch thing.
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