Hachette Partswork Dalek

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

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…

Delivery 7

By Lester Caine
26 June 2025
Dalek-Build022
Was only last week when I assembled the previous delivery onto the kit? The next one has turned up in a largish box which is needed to handle Part 19 which has the 'alien' that will control this particular transport capsule. Will get around to processing this set of parts in a couple of days as I've a few other jobs on the books first such as the Bloxham Steam and Country Show tomorro…

Delays due to updates causing crashes

By Lester Caine
10 June 2025

A lot of my time is being taken up by simply trying to stand still on the software side. I've made major progress moving bitweaver over from PHP7.3 which this server is running to PHP8.4 which is the current build. Lots of stuff has to change and while in theory one can simply hid the nannying, what were simply warnings some time ago are now firm errors. I have always adopted the stance that any messages will simply be displayed and then I can address them promptly. I received the latest…