Welcome to the next instalment in this tour through my collection of custom-painted New Series Daleks. Following the Special Weapons Dalek Customs, this short feature includes a brief look at two of my best Dalek Asylum customs. All of these customs are made by me unless stated otherwise in the description.

‘Eggs’ Dalek

This Dalek is intended to represent the Dalek that Rory first encounters in the Dalek Asylum in the initial chamber shown in Asylum of the Daleks. This Dalek became infamous for attempting to say ‘Exterminate’ and simply repeating ‘Eggs’ over and over again, baffling Rory but giving the other Daleks enough time to wake up. I set out to create this Dalek as my first attempt to properly recreate a figure that had been seen on-screen. And whilst my approximation with this figure is hardly perfect, I feel I have at least achieved a striking resemblance with this attempt. The hardest part about creating this custom was accurately recreating the damage to the manipulator arm slot that this Dalek possessed, which I had to inflict using a hacksaw and a pair of pliers (applied with delicate and professional precision, of course) to eventually open up the housing for the manipulator arm ball joint and fill in the exposed gap with hot glue, giving it a finish similar to that of melted metal when left to dry and painted black. Finishing details like the weathering, the Dalek stamp and the oil and grit in the seams I achieved using Pro-marker pens.

Plunger Dalek

This Dalek is intended to represent another Dalek shown in the Asylum in the opening chamber shot of Asylum of the Daleks. This Dalek was much easier to modify than the Eggs Dalek, particularly since no drastic alterations needed to be made to the casing. However, Particular detail had to be given to the missing spheres which, as shown in the episode, show evidence of impact scoring combined with oil and grit residue. I painted this Dalek with a very thin grey overlay so that the oil-coloured marker pens would have a standout effect, particularly in the light.

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