Limited run of Hard Dalek, Cold Dalek Shirts from The Screenprinting Factory

The very kind gentlemen at the Screen Printing Factory have donated 20 shirts of my "Hard Dalek, Cold Dalek" t-shirt

The proceeds will go directly to the Gabriella Cavalcanti Torggler Fund.

This is going to be a first come first served, with your order you need to tell me what size you want.

Additionally this is only going to be available for US residents, sorry!

Sizes S - XXL

Just leave a note in the message part of paypal with what size you want

$12 + $5 shipping

The way this will work is, once I have 20 orders I will remove the buy now button.  Those orders will be placed with The Screen Printing Company, they will send me the entire order and I will them ship everything out from home.  This process can take a couple of weeks.

Donation Page for Gabriella Cavalcanti (Ends June 30th) please help

As Im sure some of you know my step Daughter is an Opera singer.  Well she has been given the opportunity to attend the Torggler Summer Vocal Institute from July 7th to the 21st there she will explore the many styles and repertoires of vocal music, connect with the finest vocal artists and teachers, her time at the institute will be filled with lessons, master classes, workshops, and performances designed to help her reach her fullest potential and to shape her future as a vocal artist. HOWEVER, as it stands right now, we are shy of $1400....

Gabbo has spent her entire life singing and pushing her self, she has won a number of awards and certification but as I am sure you can imagine its very difficult for anyone to make a name for themselves in the music industry when you dont have a massive backing, even more difficult when its Opera.  However we have faith in Gabbo and know that she can do it but as a parent I want to do whatever I can to help her achieve her goal.

We have until the end of this month to get the funds together and so I am going to auction off a few things of mine in order to get her there.  As well I will be talking with friends 'in the industry' to try and get some other autographs and maybe memorabilia that we can also auction.... we have roughly two weeks to get this going so I am also adding a donation button to this page.  Please share this with your friends and family as you can see from the video above she is incredibly talented and has an amazing ability, like any parent we want to allow her to take her abilities as far as she can...

Thank you

If everyone who read this page gave just $1 we'd make our goal, please help

Dalek Build Week Four

Not much to update really as I was away for the weekend, and I have my 9 to 5 during the week.  But being that I was going to be away for the weekend I decided (with my wifes permission) to bring the Dalek inside to avoid any potential damage.

Hemi Update

For the surround, I was originally going to use black however I decided to try out another colour, Flat Chestnut and personally I love it.

Theres basically three colours to this Dalek, the Ivory, Aged Copper and Flat Chestnut.

Here's a side by side of the black Hemi Surround and the Chestnut Surround.... its not as clear in the picture but there is a subtle difference and in my opinion the chestnut just looks so much nicer with the Ivory skirt

Shoulder Section

So the Shoulder section is actually a little larger than a regular Dalek, however I used the plans as a starting point.  I am going to probably require some ideas from you guys as far as how to go about the turret.  

As you can see, its going to be quite a challenge...

While in the house I decided to attach the Hemis as well as place the dome on top....

What the Cool Geeks are Wearing: Dalek Pride

New Doctor Who T-shirt design by TrulyEpic called "Dalek Pride"! 

Now available for $12 at nowherebad.com from now, June 11th to June 14th. 

I saw this image maybe a year ago and kicked my self for missing it on Teefury, however its available once more and I've ordered mine already, this is an incredibly detailed design and would look great in any T-Shirt collection.

GET IT HERE: http://www.nowherebad.com/collections/featured-tees/products/dalek-pride

Dalek Build Week Three

its update time...

I was away for the weekend attending Phoenix ComiCon and so wasnt able to get any building done, but I did manage to get a day off this week so I decided that I would give my build another attack...

So I started work on the skirt section...

I used chip board (Particleboard) for the frame, which was great initially BUT for some reason when I went to attach the panels I found that the top section of the frame had moved about an inch to the left, and what had actually happened was the front support had warped.  This was probably something to do with the heat here in Tucson and the holes I had cut out of it attempting to reduce the weight a little. 

Whatever the reason was I had to take off all the panels I had already attached, realign the top part of the frame and reattach everything, I suspect that attaching, detaching and reattaching is going to be a common theme for this build...

the thing I like about a custom build is the little additions and the customising of parts, you cant really get it wrong....  You'll also notice the holes int he back panel for the vents, I liked the way the MK6 Daleks looked with those additions so I wanted to add them to my NSD hybrid.

with just a few hours left before it gets dark I decided to make start on a few more things.... and with not much else to do I decided to start on the Hemis.  I wanted to approach this whole project with a patient and when I get the time type of thing but as Im sure most of you have experienced, when you start to see it coming together you want to use any spare time to do a little more....  Right now my back is killing me so I'm taking it easy but hoping that it feels better later so i can get out there and continue to put the hemis together.

Im sure you've noticed from the photos I dont have a workshop nor a shed or garage to work in, so Im working in the shade of a Pomegranate tree and it gets really hot here and the bugs.... wow

but anyway.... heres the latest update.

for the Hemi surrounds I used quart lids purchased from Home Depot 55c each

while these dried I made start on the vents (on the back panel) using scraps of MDF left over from the skirt panels.

Back to the Hemis.... (as you can see I rabbit trail..... bouncing from one thing to the other then back again).  Again using scraps of MDF I cut 54 3 1/2inch circles these are then glued in to the hemis with a nut and spacer keeping it in place.

a hole cut in the centre of the quart lid and you have a hemi and surround.

left these overnight to allow the glue to dry..... now this next bit I think pretty much every Dalek builder has done at around this point of their builds.....

I wanted to see how the skirt looked with some of the hemis attached....

the only thing Im questioning right now is the black surround, being that Im building this to imperial colours Im wondering if I should make the surround the same colour as the hemi.  The skirt will be an Ivory colour and Im worried that the black surround with be to much....

what do you guys think???

This Happened..... @PhoenixComiCon

So I got to meet and hang out a little with none other than Captain Jack Harkness himself, John Barrowman. What a showman.... played to the crowds and really just seemed to have an endless energy throughout his appearance at Phoenix ComiCon.

Definitely one of my highlights to the weekend,

John was also very kind enough to sign K9 for me..... I was hoping to take my Dalek Dome but with everything else I was taking there was just no room for it..... none the less having K9 signed and the time I was able to spend talking with John was just fantastic.

Why does River Song divide Doctor Who fans?

As if there wasn't enough Doctor Who anniversary fun this year, today we reach another milestone. It's five years since we first met Alex Kingston's lovelorn archaeologist River Song, and the phrases "Hello sweetie" and "Spoilers" became instant catchphrases. The show's official Twitter feed has declared it #RiverSongDay and there's a flurry of activity going down at the BBC's Doctor Who site.

River has been more divisive than almost any other character in Doctor Who history. Regular visitors to this blog will know that my love for her is unending. Her combination of lavish camp, gun-toting badassery and desolate heartbreak makes her my perfect woman.

Not everyone agrees. Some fans find River too smug and theatrical. Kingston has attracted criticism for vamping it up just a bit too much – something that was becoming a problem around the time of Let's Kill Hitler, and has, thankfully, been dialled down since. In addition to this, her story was at the centre of the divisive season six/32. The ongoing plot that would reveal her as Amy and Rory's daughter, kidnapped and brainwashed to kill our hero, was a bold and intricate development, but it gave rise to accusations that the show was becoming too complicated, which in turn became a stick haters used to gleefully beat the show.

But most of all, River's detractors are the people still clinging to the notion of a sexless Doctor, a noble hero above such human fripperies as love. That seems to me the most curious argument of all. At every stage, his reaction to every advance has been one of awkward confusion. The relationship was never tenable, and not just because she could drive the Tardis better than him. Around her, he became impish and petulant. "When one's in love with a lonely god," she told Amy last year, "one does one's best to hide the damage." And there is precedent for romantic involvements. Back in the old days, the Doctor was devastated when Jo Grant left in The Green Death, and the 10th Doctor's relationship with Rose became a romantic tragedy by the end. Yet even though River has been doing all the chasing, and the Doctor she "married" was actually the Tesselactor robot, she has been the most obvious conduit for the character's steady shift towards love.

In the stunning recent series finale, everything changed again. The River we met this time was post-Library, a manifestation of her consciousness brought to life through Vastra's "conference call". When faced with the question of why he never went back to the Library, the Doctor said: "I thought it would hurt too much." A trembling River replied: "I believe I would have coped." But that was not what he meant. "I thought it would hurt me," said the Doctor, "and I was right."

Quite apart from the big John Hurt revelation, that devastating send-off was something else completely new. The Doctor publicly declared love for a woman, and initiated the kiss himself. It's a development that has led many people to predict that this was Kingston's final appearance, their romance given its tragic end. The BBC, of course, will reveal nothing, and while there are plenty of ways to bring River back, at whatever point in her timeline, the poetry of it would suggest that scene could well have been her swansong.

So, this #RiverSongDay, let's take the chance to salute this precocious buccaneer. Let us know where you stand in The Great River Debate. Tell us your favourite moments. And what do you think really happened that night they met Jim The Fish?

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Latest Doctor Who shirts via Redbubble

As well as work, and building my Dalek I've had a lot of fun designing Doctor Who themes Parody shirts.  Over the past month or so I think I've designed a couple of really cool looking tees....

Check them out:

Just click the image and it will take you tot he Redbubble site where you can purchase any of these Tees

Allons-y