Human Dalek Costume!

Step 5 Suit Jacket of the Daleks, Part Two

To round off this representation of the Dalek shoulder section, you'll need two of the most iconic parts of a Dalek: the egg beater and the plunger. Of course, they're actually a death ray and a manipulator arm, but it's pretty clear what they look like. Materials required are:

• Paint roller (found mine at the dollar store)
• Longish metal rod (mine was scrounged from a broken printer)
• Plastic cocktail glass
• Gold, black, and silver spraypaint
• Split hollow ornament ball

For the manipulator arm, rather than use an actual plunger, I opted to build something a bit more fancy. I cut the bowl section off a cocktail glass and drilled a hole in the center, then painted it black. I also drilled a hole in the center of half a large plastic ornament ball and painted that gold. I used hot glue to secure those to either end of my metal rod (with some sticking through the gold hemisphere, to use as a handle) and finished them off with some epoxy.

The death ray was even simpler. I pounded the rod of a paint roller straight and cut it off about six inches below the roller part and painted it silver. I drilled a hole in the other half of the plastic ornament ball (which I also painted gold), slipped the rod through, glued it in place and then epoxied for strength. Now I was armed!