Classic Dalek Variants

My original model was based mostly on the Daleks as they appeared in “The Power of the Daleks” (1966). However I have adapted this model to produce variants representing the Daleks as they appeared in several other Doctor Who adventures. The variants are listed here in chronological order of their appearance on TV.

Please visit Dalek 6388 for a far more comprehensive and detailed discussion of the changes that were made to the Dalek props over the years.

TV Variants (Canonical)

There follows a brief summary of the differences between the variants:

• The Daleks (1963) - The original daleks, these have no solar slats, round dome lights and nine eye disks. It comes in a single colour scheme of silver, light grey and blue.
• The Dalek Invasion of Earth (1964) - This variant is basically the same as “The Daleks” variant, but has different eye disks, an enlarged base and a dish on its back. (I've put an antenna in the centre of the dish, but in fact only some of the Invasion Daleks had this; the rest just had a black circle where the antenna should have been, as though it had been put on and then removed.) In addition to the silver/grey/blue colour scheme used for “The Daleks” variant, it also comes in colour schemes representing the saucer pilot Dalek (black dome and alternate black skirt panels) and the Black Dalek. I only have black and white photographs of the Invasion Daleks to go on, so I've made some deliberately conservative guesses about the colours.
• The Chase (1965) - This was the first variant to have slats around its shoulder section. It comes in two colour schemes, silver/blue and black/silver/blue.
• The Daleks' Master Plan (1965/6) - Identical to the Chase variant.
• The Power of the Daleks (1966) - Virtually identical to the Chase variant, although I have altered the blocks that the arms stick out of to reflect the BBC's use of bits of movie Daleks to replace damaged sections of the original TV Daleks. It comes in a single color scheme of silver/blue.
• The Evil of the Daleks (1967) - Identical to the Power variant except that it comes in an additional colour scheme of silver/blue with a black dome (usually thought to indicate a member of the Emperor Dalek's praetorian guard).
• Day of the Daleks (1972) - This variant has different dome lights, new eye disks, a deeper base, an oval plate between the arms, and the wire mesh around the shoulder section has a hexagonal pattern instead of a diamond one. It comes in two colour schemes, grey/black and gold/black.
• Planet of the Daleks (1973) - There were two distinct variants for this adventures. The first is identical to the grey/black Day variant and the second is the Dalek Supreme, a very strange looking Dalek that has a unique torch-like eye, a neck bin with un-tapered rings and no vertical struts, and a large movie-style base. It comes in a single colour scheme of yellow and black.
• Death to the Daleks (1974) - This basically the same as the Day variant, but the base has a protective flange around its top rim. It comes in two colour schemes, silver/black with white dome lights, and silver/black with orange dome lights. The variant also has a different gun, a projectile weapon seen only in this adventure.
• Genesis of the Daleks (1975) - This is very similar to the Death variant, but the colour scheme has reverted to grey/black (albeit a lighter shade of grey to the Day variant). The protective flange around the top of the base has been retained but is now black. I changed the arm blocks back to their 1963 form for this variant, but it's debatable whether or not I should have done so.
• Destiny of the Daleks (1979) - Similar to the Genesis variant, but now in an even lighter shade of grey and with additional parts in black. Exactly which parts were black varied from Dalek to Dalek, so I present it here with the median scheme of black slats and black oval between the arms. This variant also has a redesigned eye.
• Resurrection of the Daleks (1984) - Similar to the Destiny variant but with a redesigned eye. It comes in two colour schemes, grey/black and black/white, but note that the shade of grey is much darker than the Destiny variant. Also, the black/white Dalek's skirt was an unusual shape in the televised adventure, but I have chosen to assume this was just a horrible mistake on the BBC's part, so I have modelled it with a regular skirt.
• Revelation of the Daleks (1985) - There were two distinct variants for this adventure, one identical to the grey/black Resurrection Daleks and the other a new white/gold imperial variant. The props used for the imperial daleks were new builds and differed from the old dalek props in many ways, e.g. they were noticeably chunkier around the shoulders, had different arrangements of solar slats and skirt bumps, a different eye, a slightly different skirt shape, and so on. They also had an ugly gap between the top of the shoulder section and the bottom of the grill around the neck bin, but I have omitted this since it is generally agreed to have been a mistake.

Movie Variants (Canonical)

I have also produced variants that depict the Daleks as they appeared in the movies Doctor Who and the Daleks (1965) and Daleks Invasion Earth 2150 AD (1966).

Other Variants (Non-Canonical)

Finally I have produced a number of non-canonical variants, of which two are illustrated here.

• JP Imperial Dalek - This is my version of an imperial Dalek. Essentially it is what I think the imperial Daleks in Remembrance of the Daleks (1988) should have looked like.
• Hybrid Dalek - This is a hybrid Dalek combining features from the nineteen sixties Daleks with features from the new series (2005) Dalek.

Related pages:

• Classic Dalek Model
• Emperor Dalek Variants
• Special Weapons Dalek Variants

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