This is a one sixth scale poseable Dalek from modern Doctor Who!

This is designed to be printed using a multi-colour 3D printer, such as a bambulab, prusa, or any of the new printers coming out with the ability to print with multiple materials at the time of writing. That said, if you want, you can put all the parts into a single colour printer and then paint after the fact, have fun.

To assemble, each part has been split into pieces which correspond to different potential colours, and some pieces have been broken down further. This is to ensure that parts that may be under stress (such as when posing the dalek) can withstand further roughhousing. Some parts have been broken apart as well to save needless filament purging (such as the domelights on the dome), or to allow for extra colours (such as using a clear filament on the domelights on the dome).

These don't have to all be assigned to different colours if you have a printer that can only print up to two colours, or if you want to remix how things are done. For example, in the pictured dalek, I've recreated the colour scheme from the 2005 episode The Parting of the Ways.

To assemble the dalek, it has been designed so that each section can bolt together using M3 nuts and bolts. There are two extra unused attachment points at the base of the dalek skirt, should you want to design some sort of interior or mechanical element of your own to allow for easy mounting. Based on feedback from my last model, I've also included some press fit joiners to replace most of the bolts, however to get proper tension on the arm joints, I recommend still using a bolt there, as the tolerances for the press fittings will change printer to printer.

The dalek was designed at one sixth scale to match the figures made by Big Chief Studios. However, should you want it bigger at one fifth scale to match the larger Character Options figures, you can simply scale all the parts by a factor of 1.2, a one fouth scale dalek would need everything to be scaled up by a factor of 1.5. At these scales though, M3 bolts will not be the correct size to hold the dalek together, and you will need to source alternative fittings.

To help with assembly, please take note of the following video:

The steps needed to assemble the Dalek as I have done:

1. Print all pieces as sliced in the provided 3MF file and remove any support structures

   

2. Glue the plunger arm into the arm ball, and slide into the left socket in the shoulder. Once through glue the plunger onto the arm.

   

3. Glue the two gun lengths together, slide on the gun bezels and glue into place. Glue the gun into the gun ball, and slide into the left socket in the shoulder.

   

4. Slide the appendage holder behind the gun and arm balls, and secure with an M3 nut and bolt. Tighten until you can move the appendages, but they stay in place once you let them go.

   

5. Take the neck interior, and glue the lower neck ring to the interior using the protrusions for alignment. Once dry, glue the mid and top neck rings to the neck interior.

   

6. Glue the dome lights onto the dome.

   

7. Take the eye shaft, and layer up the eye disks and spacing rings, pressing into place. The eye disks go Small > Medium > Large > Large > Medium > Small, and the spacing rings go Thin > Thin > Thick > Thin > Thin. Glue and press the rear of the eye ball onto the end of the eye shaft, holding the rest in place. Glue the front of the eye ball onto the front of the eye stalk.

   

8. Slide the rear of the eye stalk through the front hole on the dome, and cut a small piece of 1.75mm filament to size. Slide it into the rear of the eye stalk to form an axle. Push the eyestalk into place in the dome, and affix by pushing the Eye Rear Holder into place. The force of it against the eye stalk axle will hold everything in place.

   

9. Using either M3 nuts and bolts, or the printed joiners, connect the main Dalek sections together. It is easier if the dome is affixed to the neck first, and the larger pieces are then assembled to have most space for fitting hands into the model.

   

10. Take photos, share them! I can't wait to see what you make! Happy printing!

The filaments I used to print my dalek are:

• PLA Basic - Jade White (10100)
• PLA Basic - Gold (10401)
• PLA Basic - Bronze (10801)
• PLA Basic - Silver (10102)
• PLA Matte - Charcoal (11101)
• PLA Matte - Marine Blue (11600)
• A random clear PLA I had for the dome lights