Christmas Dalek

Secret 2015 Christmas Dalek Page

Dalek in progress Pics:

 

         

  

The bottom of the Dalek so that it will either sit flat, or fit as a tree topper.

Video of Dalek:

Merry X-terminate!

  

  

X-mas Tree X-terminate Videos

(with and without a Santa Hat)

The How and With What:

The base materials:

• Paper coffee cup (Lg Tim Horton's cup)

• Cardboard

• Drinking straw

• Button

• String/yarn

• Paper Mâché (glue and tissue paper)

• Paint of choice

• 3D Embellishments that resemble 1/2 pearl normally used for scrap booking (found at a dollar store)

• Re-purposed cheap flashing holiday ornament (found at a dollar store) 

• a single 1/2 inflated balloon

For the body I used a large size paper cut and glued on thick pieces of cardboard to resemble the general shape of the Dalek.

Mixing glue and water, I then covered the shape with tissue in paper mache style and left it to dry. 

(Drying time is the longest part of this project.)

I paper macheed a half inflated balloon to create the dome shape, and let that dry.

I cut the drinking straw into lengths for the (3) appendages. I covered them in paper mache too, but left about a 1/2 inch or so at one end to attache to the body/dome.  I secured a button on the end of one of the straws (although I'm sure there's better alternative to the button) for the  "plunger".   I slit length-wise, the uncovered ends of the straw allowing them to splay open, producing supports that I was able to fasten to the body/dome.

I found embellishments (normally sold for scrap booking) that resembled tiny domes, at the dollar store to use on the body.

Also, for the details at the shoulder and "skirt", I glued string around the body, them paper mache over the string 

The light was the trickiest part of this build (craft).

I disassembled several dollar store Christmas and flashy toys before I found one that I could work with. It was an egg-shapes blinking ornament and once I took it apart, (smashed it) I found it had an on/off switch leading to an LED at the end of (relatively) long wires. This allowed me to secure the on/off switch at the back of the Dalek's dome, and secure the LED in the dome appendage.  

Once the light is in position and the on/off switch is appropriately secure, it's time to join the dome to the body.

I painted parts along the way, as they dried, to get a sense of what it would look like, but putting paper mache over the paint is no problem.

I'm very happy with how it turned out. The recipients seemed to really like it and appreciate the work involved. It was absolutely a conversation piece.

Next time - hard-wire the light.

Happy New Year!!