mrsparky opened this issue on Aug 04, 2013 · 53 posts
SamTherapy posted Mon, 05 August 2013 at 6:52 PM
Quote - McKinstry's Cyber designs are just brillaint.. shame we wont' see them... *if I was a better modeler, I'd make the CyberMondosian design... *
I ain't seen those, mate. If they're in the same vein as some of his Supreme takes, they're definitely worth a look.
@ Cage - many of the Who team are forum members of DWO and Project Dalek, and several other Who fan sites. They'll have taken a lot of the comments and complaints back with 'em and addressed 'em to a degree. Full credit for that, although I must point out when I was in full rant mode about the new Daleks, I did say "We're the ones paying for this", in reference to the UK TV License fee. That was in response to Moff saying, "Everything changes, even the Daleks. These are the new ones, so get used to it".
Your comments about it making a nice toy strike a chord with me. I'd remarked they looked like they were designed with an eye firmly on the toy market. Bright, friendly colours, simple outlines and minimal surface detail. I believe it's the only official Dalek that doesn't suffer from "panel twist", too. That probably makes it a lot easier to injection mould. One of the guys on PD - Bill Bailey - gave his 2010s a Genesis paint job, which made them look rather menacing. He'd also played around with the design a bit, essentially doing what the BBC did to their revised 2010s, but Bill did it first.
Mechmaster made a new version named the True Paradigm, which was built in consultation with McKinstry and some of the other BBC guys. That was released as a Project Dalek only model. Mechmaster is too much of a gentleman to have voiced any gripes about the BBC nicking his idea of rear vent slots. We're not gents, so we did gripe about it, loud and long. :) I'd love to see Mechmaster's designs get official sanction and him get recognition and recompense for 'em. In fact, all of the guys at Project Dalek can cook up a pretty mean looking Dustbin of Death. We should all be given jobs at the Beeb. :D
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