This model is based on the the Special Weapons Dalek that appeared in the the last episode of “Remembrance of the Daleks” (1988). The Dalek seen in that adventure was a member of the Imperial Dalek faction, a second race of Daleks that had somewhat unusual proportions and sported a white and gold colour scheme; however my model attempts to depict a ‘classic’ Special Weapons Dalek. Consequently the version illustrated here has a sixties-style silver and blue colour scheme and the proportions are closer to that of a classic dalek.
Click here to see some photographs of a model kit of the Special Weapons Dalek produced by Comet Miniatures some years back.
The colour scheme was arrived at by identifying which part of a classic dalek each part of the Special Weapons Dalek corresponded to and colouring it accordingly. The only problem with this scheme was deciding what the material seen through the little rectangular cut-outs immediately below the dome was meant to be.
This material was gold in the TV episode, but a normal Imperial Dalek has two gold parts that this could correspond to: the neck bin (i.e. the bit between the dome and the shoulder section) and the eye. At first sight it looks most like the neck bin: however it could be an array of eyes giving the dalek all-round vision. The real problem is that it can't really be both: if it is the neck bin then the dalek doesn't obviously have an eye, and vice versa. So the real question is, which can the dalek most do without?
You might think that the eye was the most important thing. However there various reasons to think this might not be so:
As a result I decided that the material was most likely the neck bin, and coloured it black (the colour of a classic dalek's neck bin).
These are the proportions I arrived at for my model (the units of measurement are arbitrary):
The model is currently at version number 31. I have produced several variants of it, to match the variants of my Classic Dalek model.