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Nick Internal Frame Found one picture while test fitting the neck inner piece prior to fixing the neck   Skirt Cladding Here you can see where I added blocks in the upper/lower corners and not seen in the middle, to secure the beaches together. The skirt is screwed into the base, the skirt and shoulders have a metal bracket in the center and front corners to keep them together, and the same thing for the shoulders and the neck. It will hold without but not recomended. with the appendages on the shoulder extended, there is quite a bit of wight pushing it forward.     Inside the skirt decoration The inside of the skirt used on TV appears to have been skinned with rubber flooring with circles. I did find something very similar but it was cost prohibitive and very heavy. For this one, I opted to 3D bring small washers that look very much like the ones outside the shoulders and edge of the skirt, printed them upside down with a small tip on the bottom (top when printed) so that I could use the pin as a locator. On the inside of of skirt I drew lines and spaced the washers to a pleasing eye and engaged in drilling pilot hole and a lot of glueing.   Base (support when stationary) As the Dalek is intended to be static, and allow people to come sit in it for photo ops, it has to be secured and not moving. But I also wanted to have it on wheels to bring it from point A to Point B. To attain this was quite easy   I cut four 4"x4" post to be just under the hight of the skirt, then slightly taller equal 4"x4" pieces that are attached to the under piece once stationary to raise the wheels off the ground. For ease of attaching, I added 4 earth magnets at each corner of the posts and receiving peace with a Dowel to center the part. This way all you have to do is locate the user post and they attach right away to the proper position. To ensure everything lined up I created a template and cut all holes to the proper size and dept for magnets and dowel.   To glue the magnes to each other. I placed glue in each hole and added a piece of paper between each piece while drying, this way all the magnes are flush with the end.   Skirt flooring As the inside of the Dalek is seen, I added a rubber math to the base, this allows for easy cleaning and anti slip for the Humans to be upgraded, (Opps, wrong bad guys). The hole in the center of the mat is for the seat. Simply locate the seat in its proper location, screwed into the base by under the skirt and then cut around the base. Then place the skirt on top of the base and repeat, cut from the inside and Voila     On to Painting After all the sanding, priming, sanding and more priming, eventing was given a base coat of black First coat of Silver Painted all the "open" edges with a coat of silver This is the paint I sued for the brace and Gold   On to the Brass This took a few coats with lite sanding in between. Make sure you tape off the silver (see painters tape in picture)   On to the Gold   Black on the Hemies, Once the gold had cured properly, I masked all the gold and painted the black rings   Two coats of clear coat   And Viola Added some phone tubing, LED lights and small Loom on the top of the head to dangle.     Regrettably Jenna Colman was not available to come and visit us but we did get a special guest to come by and say hello   John Barrowman was a Gem and even took some time to ask me how the Dalek and its appendage worked   That's it, hope you enjoyed the build. If anyone wants better pictures of the various parts, please let me know.   And a huge thank you to @lochsloyfor his help in completing this build! And a big thank you  to the Doctor Who Society of Canada team who gave a few weekends to priming and sanding to get this build completed. 

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Good day to all and apologies to those who were following this build. It was completed last year. The last leg of the build was rushed with the help of fellow whovian from our local chapter of Doctor Who Society of Canada so that it could be completed for our local Ottawa COMICCON where Jenna Colman was to attend, Our hope was to get her to sit in the Dalek. What will now proceed may not be in sequence of build but provided in sequence of "parts" in the hope to make more sense to anyone wanting to repeat this build and improve on it Shoulders (Internal support) Building on what you see in previous posts. one of the puzzles of this build was how to mount supporting points from which the shoulders and neck could be suspended. To do this I needed to complete put the plunger and gun so that it could be attached to the shoulders in order to find the pont of balance for the shoulder.  Once that was found, the trick was to mount a plate on which the receiving end of the supporting arm could be affixed. In this case, still using small casters.  This is what I cam up with. The part was first glued in place and then both ends secured with 3 layers of fibre glass to ensure it would not break away.   Shoulder (internal frame for internal wall) The best material I found to clad the internal walls of the shoulders and neck was some thin rubber matting used for tool benches. It comes in different size rolls. But how to affix it. I taught of using small screws to secure it on the edge of the structure, and that would have worked but I wanted something easy to remove if there was on site repairs to do.  For that, I opted for Velcro but the edges are too thin for that so using small beaches of wood, I glued them to all sides and then used my belt sander to match the contoor. Note  In second last Pic you will see that I also added wood blocks in the front corners and mid of the shoulders. These will be seen later so that the shoulders, skirt and neck can all be held together with brakes that hold each other together. The blocks will be drilled with screw inserts.   Here is a picture of the finished inside of the front left shoulder inside. You can see the strip of velcro and if you look carfully the fibreglass behind the velcro to give strength to the edge piece, probably overkill. The last picture is the inside of the shoulder with the rubber mat fixed to the shoulder. You will note that to secure the shoulder to the receiving post that I used double pin inserts from kayaks. Works well.       Neck Cladding Regrettably I have very little photos of the build of the neck 😐...   First you make your neck, same as any regular Dalek, then you need to cut it in three. The issue here is that now that it is separate, it is easy for the parts to get screwed.  so handle with care, The other issue is that when you look at the finished product, the neck is actualy "floating" in an internal part that has to be build. For that I ended up 3D printing an internal frame for it. but it could have also been done with a smaller internal frame and bend MDF same as when doing shoulders but I wanted to keep the wight down. So a light 3D printed part seemed to make sense (Balsa wood would have been better LOL but I did what I did.  On the positive side, the 3d frame provided a solid frame.     The internal frame was also made for an internal frame to place velcro to secure the cladding for a finished look. In this case, to make it true to the TV version, the appendage is quite low so Fiberglass on this part was a wise move     To do the rings and decoration on the edges, what I did was makes holes in the appropriate area in a thin piece of MDF that is afixed to the front. (need to calculate that thickness for the internal piece! and then looking at pictures, it looked like washers were put inside the holes with another washer on the outside. Holes were made in drill press prior to assembling and I 3D printed "washers" for both parts, lighter than metal. If you look carefully on the second picture you can see the screws that affix to the neck strut and on the 4th picture, you can see that I screwed in from the inside of the casing onto the struts of the neck.  I purposely routed a longer lip on the edge of the lower ring so that the inner piece would sit on it and screwed in from under as well as inside the frame onto the struts.  Sorry, that's all I have to show for this part

I've never been to Doncaster race course, I know from hull you take the A63 then M62 then M18 then A630 then A18, ---is it easy to find? Also which entrance and car park do we use?