Human Dalek Costume!

Step 8 Helmet of Daleks, Part Three

Here's what we need to build the eyestalk:

• Some PVC pipe
• Pole from a stainless steel solar light
• Old piece of tupperware
• Blue LED
• Speaker wire
• Hot glue
• Epoxy
• Black and silver spraypaint
• Translucent plastic
• Cardboard
• Masking tape

The eyestalk itself was very easy to make, but I had trouble attaching it to the helmet. If I had this to do over (which I will next year), I would have cut a bigger hole in the dome and stuck the whole thing through, securing it on the other side.

The main eyepiece is simply a rubbermaid food container of the correct shape I found at the Goodwill, painted black and with some translucent plastic cut from a milk jug glued over a hole cut in the front. Inside, a hole is cut in the back with a blue LED and some speaker wire fed through it. The stainless post is attached there, with six cardboard discs glued to it. The discs are wrapped in masking tape and painted silver.

Since the Dalek eyestalk is mounted on a wheel that allows it to go up and down, I made a half circle of cardboard and attached a short length of black painted PVC to it. That whole mess is painted black, and the rest of the eyestock is glued to that. The result is then epoxied in place inside the eyestalk housing of the helmet, with the speaker wire attached to the LED fed through the hole in the dome. As you can see from the pictures below, I had to attach some more cardboard to the front of it to make it more stable.