Gek2Win wrote: ↑Thu Jul 02, 2020 7:26 am
This is great. A definite make for me. I tried to do this myself previously, but I found working with the various angles difficult. If I may ask, what was your design process? Did you work from images, and how did you do scaling?
Thank you, if you decide to have a go I'd love to see the result!
For the designing, I started by using a picture I found of a Dalek with the Emperor, measured the height of the Dalek and the Emperor's skirt and calculated a scale factor. I used this factor to calculate the height of the model's skirt from the height of a Dalek figure. The diameter of the skirt was just measured roughly by eye. I drew out a 'prototype' skirt by hand and made it, then found a cone generator online (on blocklayer.com) and used this to make the ring at the top of the skirt. I then drew out the 'prototype' templates for the neck section and it's slats, using the skirt for scaling from the picture. The dome was quite tricky to work out, it basically involved splitting the height and diameter (for each dome section) of the dome (measured from a picture of an Eaglemoss Emperor) into 2 sections (since it has a sort of double dome effect) and then splitting these into several pieces of equal heights and decreasing lengths. I split the circumference into 12 pieces and drew a segment for each on MS Word (there are probably better things to use, but it worked for me!

) I then hand-drew a 'prototype' eye stalk and fitted it. Once the 'prototype' was fully made (I've included a picture, although it is falling apart a bit now

) I drew some final templates (some by hand, most on the computer), and assembled them into the templates above!
So yes I did work from images, and this was how I did the scaling for the skirt. The rest of it is scaled based on the skirt.
Sorry the answer was so long!
