Steampunk Dalek

Wow! Alex Holden created this fantastic steampunk dalek sculpture out of a plastic Dalek bubble bath bottle:

The main body is made from a plastic Dalek bubble-bath bottle I bought very cheaply at Woolworth’s in the post-Christmas sales. At the time I had no idea what I could use it for, but it looked too cool to pass up. I disassembled it and spray-painted the parts with a can of gold Plastikote paint after masking off the two silver arms on the front. The wheels, cylinders, chimney stack, and ‘bumpers’ came from a rather tacky brass model of Stephenson’s Rocket I bought for £5 at a car boot sale.

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April 13, 2008 at 4:14 pm by Alex
Category: Art & Craft, Movies & SciFi, Toy & Video Games

8 Comments to "Steampunk Dalek"

Pleasenomoresteampunkcrap
April 13th, 2008 at 4:50 pm
Super tacky! Please don’t go all BoingBoing on us!
bean
April 13th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
I agree about all the steam punk stuff. I also had no idea Woolworth’s still existed.
CheeseDuck
April 13th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
Gah. Too much steampunk crap these days.
ted
April 14th, 2008 at 5:07 am
I just don’t get the steampunk phenomenon. Or the Dalek phenomenon. Combining the two seems pointless.
empty-minded
April 14th, 2008 at 8:47 am
Maybe if bubbles were coming out of the tail pipe?
Ralph
April 14th, 2008 at 9:57 am
The Heavy Weapons Dalek on the original show was kinda steampunky, before it was ‘cool’
Rosi
April 14th, 2008 at 10:42 am
I think this one is pretty pointless. The Daleks are already copper coloured, makeshift looking and covered in metal rivets. That’s pretty much the essence of steampunk, so this is just overkill.
And I think most of the steampunk ideas are running out now. There’s not really much more you CAN do.
anon
April 14th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
Ex-steam-in-ate

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