Two more knit daleks

[charloween]

Dalek-in-progress photos after the cut:











The red-and-black one is for firstgold. She picked those colours months ago, and we both thought, "Well, they had red-and-black daleks back in the early 70s, why not. Kooky, but fun." Then I saw some of the promo pics for the end of this current season and started to laugh. We are so good.

In that last photo, I'm making the "YES OKAY I SMILE FOR PICTURE FINE TAKE THE DAMN PICTURE" face. But I include it to give you an idea of the scale of these cute little beasties. This makes 5 I've knitted. I've promised one more to Teagan and then I think I'll take another year break before I do any more.

Comments

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

"Come sit next to your old Uncle Dalek, and let me tell you about the time we exterminated a whooole planet. Time was you could scoot around, exterminating whatever the Dalek central programming told you to. None of this free will and emotion. Yes, back in the good old days it was exterminating any and all who weren't Daleks. All day every day. And no nasty grumbling for time off. We're Daleks! We exist to exterminate! Not like you young cyborgs today, off gallivanting with Cybermen and all the rest. They're not proper cyborgs..."

[skivee.livejournal.com]

The Daily Dalek reports that shortly after this conversation, Uncle Dalek was taken into custody and exterminated for inappropriate interfacing with an immature dalek of his creche.