media collectables daleks
D Emmence
yesterday afternoon and the gear was on my doorstep first thing this morning,
for those put off a bit by the add 10% for postage thingy in their advert
apparently orders over £50 are carriage paid if you want to spend that much.
ok a quick revue of the product.
mk 2 daleks
exceptionally well sculpted (probably best ive seen so far) make rolykins look
cheap and nasty.
stand about 5mm taller than tv rolykins and about 2mm taller than movie
rolykins.
quite easy to assemble although the eyestalk needs to have its base cross cut
for it to fit into the dome correctly (the illustrations in dwm obviously didnt
do this and therefore look a bit odd) when this is done the end result is quite
good.
hoverbouts
again good sculpting, quite easy to assemble if you have 4 hands.
the top ring is quite a tight fit to a dalek base and you have to force the
dalek a bit to get it in and out, this could scratch the paint a bit if you
want to keep switching them.
emporer dalek
oh dear, well they cant all be perfect, whilst well sculped it just dosent look
right because of its size. i.e it is far too short, the problem seems to be in
the truncated base, ive looked back at the tv21 issues ive got and it looks
like it should have been a fair bit taller, the dalek annuals may contradict me
on this but as i havent any of them anymore i cant check, height does appear to
vary a little depending on who drew each serial but not by a lot. this model
only comes up to the base of the neck section of the ordinary daleks and its
hard to imagine the supreme beings looking up to a dwarf ?
a possible solution may be to cut the base off of a rolykin to leave the last 3
lines of hemispheres and then fix the emporers upper dome onto that. it all
depends how fussy you are (and whether you can accept cutting up a perfectly
decent rolykin).
all in all im pretty impressed and will extend my collection as and when they
bring out new models.
dave emmence
Doctor TOC
>
> i must admit theyre giving a very good service, i phoned my order through
> yesterday afternoon and the gear was on my doorstep first thing this morning,
> for those put off a bit by the add 10% for postage thingy in their advert
> apparently orders over £50 are carriage paid if you want to spend that much.
Thanks for the review. For those of us in the US and/or those who've not
seen the ad in the latest DWM, could you give us the phone number? Do
you know if they have a website?
Doctor TOC
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D Emmence
revue of new models etc snipped.
hi otherchris
contact details for media collectables:
media collectables ltd
dept dw1
3 rockpoint avenue,
wallasey,
merseyside,
ch45 1nb
england
tel / fax 0151 6383869
email
con...@mediac.fsnet.co.uk
no known website as yet.
Doctor TOC
>
> revue of new models etc snipped.
>
> hi otherchris
> contact details for media collectables:
> media collectables ltd
> dept dw1
> 3 rockpoint avenue,
> wallasey,
> merseyside,
> ch45 1nb
> england
> tel / fax 0151 6383869
> con...@mediac.fsnet.co.uk
> no known website as yet.
Cheers!
Doctor TOC
--
The Reverend Doctor "The Other Chris"
The Dalek Emperor
I met with Mal, the owner of Media Collectables last Saturday. There will
be a website coming up very shortly to advertise the products. There's also
some excellent MK1 Cybermen from Tenth Planet...the best I've ever seen and
the detail is superb. Also there will be some Dalek Scenery and ramps etc in
order to re-create a little Dalek diarama. All very TV21 like.
I also thought the Emperor Dalek was a little too short....I don't know
about modifying a Rolykin though as the moulding on the skirt balls
(especially at the rear) is very undefined. I think I'd beef up the base a
bit using a little artistic licence.
Mal is currently chasing the licence to produce Movie Daleks as well, as
this is held not by the BBC but by Canal Plus the French Video company who
own the rights to the two films.
I expect we'll be seeing rather a lot od Media Collectables in the near
future....
I'll post web site address when it's on-line...some animated graphic
problems are holding things up...
Dave
Mike Hall
> mk 2 daleks
> exceptionally well sculpted (probably best ive seen so far)
I should hope so. We (that is Joe Nagle and I) spent many an evening
in the pub picking faults in Media Collectables prototypes to try and
get them as accurate as possible.
> hoverbouts
> again good sculpting, quite easy to assemble if you have 4 hands.
> the top ring is quite a tight fit to a dalek base and you have to force the
> dalek a bit to get it in and out, this could scratch the paint a bit if you
> want to keep switching them.
The intention, I believe, is that you don't take the Dalek out of the
hoverbout.
> emporer dalek
> oh dear, well they cant all be perfect, whilst well sculped it just dosent look
> right because of its size. i.e it is far too short, the problem seems to be in
> the truncated base, ive looked back at the tv21 issues ive got and it looks
> like it should have been a fair bit taller,
I had nothing to do with this one (having sadly not read the TV21
comics).
> all in all im pretty impressed and will extend my collection as and when they
> bring out new models.
I've written blurbs for the packaging of forthcoming Special Weapons
Dalek and "Evil" style emperor, but lord knows when they'll be
available. They also had plans to make the Dark Dimension Special
Weapons Dalek, although I'm not sure if they managed to track down
designed Alan Marshall(?) and get his permission. Lots of stuff in the
pipeline though!
Mike
Doctor TOC
>
> emporer dalek
> oh dear, well they cant all be perfect, whilst well sculped it just dosent look
> right because of its size. i.e it is far too short, the problem seems to be in
> the truncated base, ive looked back at the tv21 issues ive got and it looks
> like it should have been a fair bit taller, the dalek annuals may contradict me
> on this but as i havent any of them anymore i cant check, height does appear to
> vary a little depending on who drew each serial but not by a lot. this model
> only comes up to the base of the neck section of the ordinary daleks and its
> hard to imagine the supreme beings looking up to a dwarf ?
As odd as it seems, the Emperor Dalek seen in the TV21 strips and the
original annuals is definately shorter than the standard Daleks, as I
noticed while re-reading my copy of the collected strips yesterday.
However, the Emperor Dalek drawn by Lee Sullivan and seen in "Nemesis of
the Daleks" and "Emperor of the Daleks", though based on the TV21
Emperor, is definately the same height as it's fellows, and possibly
would have been a better choice for the model. I'll with-hold judgment
until I get my models.