Hachette Partswork Dalek

Created by: Lester Caine, 9 March 2025
Last modified: 9 March 2025

Delivery 12

By Lester Caine
12 November 2025

Dalek-Build42

Next parts turned up a day earlier than last time and I'm fairly sure the earlier sets were delivered on the Friday, so lets see when set 13 roles up. There was also another 'extra' item that I'd already been signed up for, but I think these are just well over priced and I had said to opt me out, but it seems you have to do it every time. T…

Delivery 11

By Lester Caine
17 October 2025

Display of Builds to Mag38

Some more progress has been made in the flat, so now I have somewhere to display the bigger pieces, so when the latest delivery rolled up the base for the Dalek needed to use that space. Additionally, while intended for building boats, the portable workstation has been pressed into use and one of it's draws is now storing the spare small parts for the…

Delivery 10

By Lester Caine
22 September 2025

Dalek-Build34

Where is the year going? Another 4 weeks have passed and a new set of parts arrived for the Dalek. Been having some fun this weekend as the business broadband is down in Evesham an so I'm actually creating this post via the development computer just to keep ahead of the game. 

 

Delivery 9

By Lester Caine
23 August 2025

Dalek-Build 30

Next level down is starting to take shape. It's taking around about half an hour each time to assemble the four parts. In this case the assemble is in isolation to the chair section, but the two will eventually be combined as they are here.

 
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Delivery 8

By Lester Caine
24 July 2025
Dalek-Mag23-26

Where does all the time go? Just finish processing one set of parts and the next appears. Well I know where most of it went over the last few weeks and the result is this blog is now running on a nice new server. Still hitting a lot of little niggles, but already things like the default post dates for a new entry are defaulting to today's date, and a couple of other niggles in the blog p…