Greetings Terrans, how goes it? Another little bit of frivolity to share with you all today – as many of you know, I’m a big fan of Frostgrave and of the Joseph A. McCullough’s stable of games in general. I also enjoy Doctor Who, so when I saw a copy of Wargames Illustrated with an article entitled ‘Daleks in Stargrave’ I knew I needed to do something about the lack of Daleks in my mini collection.
I remembered that I had some ‘free on a magazine’ Daleks squirreled away – no idea what mag they were on, but they were made of crappy gold plastic, and were pretty rough looking… I went digging in my draw-of-holding and found seven of the buggers, though one had a snapped gun. The plastic was too shonky to fix number seven up, so I hacked it apart & made a damaged Dalek, complete with sculpted driver… I thought it would make a good objective marker or plot point in a game.
I did a bit of research on Dalek colour schemes these days & found out that Red ones are ‘Drones’ (and presumably go fasta), Blue ones are ‘Strategists’ (and lucky I guess?), and Orange are ‘Scientists’… For the record, there is also Yellow – ‘Eternal’ and White – ‘Supreme’, but they seemed a bit grand for my humble little force of 6.5 Daleks, so I went with a squad of 4 Drones led by a Strategist and accompanying a Scientist. The damaged Dalek was also painted as a Scientist – I imagined a game set around a Dalek incursion to retrieve data from a damaged scientist (before exterminating it for being damaged and inferior no doubt!)
Anyway, here they are:




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I neglected to take a scale shot, but they are on 32mm bases, and seem very well scaled for 28mm. They were painted quickly & without too much angst over accuracy – they are shitty plastic freebees after all, so even the best painters would have a hard time polishing these turds! That said, I must admit I’m pretty happy with how they came out 😊
Anywho, that’s it for this week – I’ll be back next week with the start of another ‘complete the set’ project… Appropriately for Halloween, we’ll be delving into the Warhammer Quest Cursed City!! Catch y’all on the flip side!
Great work Alex, especially like the wrecked one, with crew inside.
Thanks mate, I’m pleased with that too – better than binning the poor bugger 😉
Good thinking, and a very nice rescue job on these – the wrecked version is especially clever. :-)
Cheers dude – cheap and cheerful for the win 😊
They look great considering the quality of the starting material. The damaged one that you repaired is a super idea, and I like that you’ve got a scenario in mind for them already – and with Dalek protagonists to boot!
Cheers dude – there’s no getting away from them being pretty rough, but I’m chuffed seeing as these were essentially free!! 😁
Very nice- love the destroyed one.
Reminds me of the old film….
Cheers,
Pete.
Cheers Pete, Daleks are the ultimate nostalgia kick for me 😊
Daleks are my favourite aliens of all time, I think mainly because they don’t conform to a human shape. I have Daleks down on my diorama ideas list and one day will get around to doing it. Love the damaged one, inspired. They are just so cookbook! 🙂
Cheers dude, they’re pretty special for me too – the UK equivalent of the Starship Enterprise in terms of sci-fi icons, but way cooler! Glad you like ‘em mate 😊
Awesome stuff! The wrecked one is amazingly good and a great use of a broken model.
Cheers matey 😊
Lovely work mate! I painted a few of these a while back, and yes they are not the finest detailed models ever created, but I do think the paint up quite nicely (as you’ve shown). I do like the idea of using the broken one as a destroyed dalek, great bit of sculpting work there too by the way, I had planned to something similar with one of the “many” I have left, but as with so many of these idea’s “one day” hasn’t arrived yet! 😁
Cheers Roger.
Cheers mate, yeah, they are pretty basic but you can’t argue with the price! 😂
That’s a very cool little collection of Daleks! I’m still a fan of classic grey, but these certainly do look good!
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