What is this model?
A Dalek, the original you might say. This Dalek version is from the early 1960s, the design that started it all and got Dalekmania going throughout the 1960s. This design was first seen in the first serial The Daleks from December 1963 and used a few more times and last seen in 2015 in The Magician's Apprentice/The Witch's Familiar when many variations of Daleks can be seen.
This Dalek design was changed in the mid to late 1960s, and this design was used for most of the original classic series run, with only colour variations. (See: High Res Classic Dalek with Controllers for Animation) for this Dalek variation
Why is it worth buying it?
I love Doctor Who and have been watching it since the mid 2000s, starting with the modern before quickly watching the classic era. I know how the Daleks look and move, and this is reflected in these designs, from watching many hours of the show, and collecting various items and references to reflect this design.
As someone who is somewhat a perfectionist in creating realistic models, I do so by making sure I spend many days on the finer or large scale details this model has, based on a wide variety of different gramophones reference material I found online, and taking elements from one or two of these references, making sure it distinctively my own. It's also important to make this model as real as possible in terms of dimensions, materials used and overall appearance so it can be appreciated whether it's viewed up close or from a distance depending on your project.
Viewing CGtrader, gramophones are very popular, and I understand that, because having them in a home, means a music lover or someone who loves style. So what makes mine different? I believe the big difference is I wanted the model to look modern and antique at the same time, with realistic looking materials.
The key to making it this realistic, is to not only have some realistic poly count, but include a number of smaller and less noticeable additions. These additions style using nodes include:
- Scratches
- Dirt/mud
- Bumps/Imperfections
One of the major factors you should buy is that I provide two versions in Blender,
- Procedural texturing (using Principled BSDF with multiple tree nodes) and
- Baked texturing using 4K baked textures (all in separate folder - see below for more details)
I do this to ensure you have the choice that you feel comfortable with, whether you love the model but want to make small changes to the overall textures using the nodes provided to suit your project needs, or leave the baked textures in place where you can use the model in your project as is.
In addition to this, if you don't have blender, this project contains various project file formats to use in various other 3D Programs and these details can be seen below.
How can it be used?
This model is for the fans of Doctor Who, and can be used for their large or small scale fan projects, whether it's animated or placed in the real world.
*How the file system works and what is contained within *
Within the downloadable folder/s, I have included two different blender folders, one indicating its procedural and the other baked.
Within the Procedural Zip Folder (1960s_Dalek_Procedural_Model) you will find a file called (Procedural_Texturing_Dalek_1960s_2024) all the textures/materials are included, using a wide variety of procedural nodes. This will mean you can modify any of these nodes, to suit your own preferred taste/style specific to your own project needs. This Blender file will suit any level of experience as the node layout is quite simple and easy to follow.
However, for those who want the ease and comfort of downloading the file without worrying about making changes, all the textures are baked within a separate folder called textures with each texture containing at least 4 different texture layers in 4K (4096 x 4096).
These include:
- BaseColor
- Metalness
- Normal and
- Roughness
Each object/part within this project, their four texture layers (as mentioned above) are contained in their own folder. These objects below are the folder names and include:
- Dalek Belt
- Dalek Chest Body
- Dalek Eye Stalk
- Dalek Grill Inside
- Dalek Head
- Dalek Lights
- Dalek Skirt
- Dalek Skirt Globes
- Dalek Structure Head
- Eye Stalk Base
- Eye Stalk Feature
- Plunger
- Ray Gun
- Weapons Base
The Blender file within the baked texture folder (1960s_Dalek_Baked_Materials_Model) contains these baked materials as .png files. This can be found under the Blender File (Dalek_1960s_Version_01). To use correctly just download the texture ZIP file, (included within are separate material/texture folders with the names closely matching to the different objects within the blender/other file).
As well as these two folders which are suited for blender users, I have also contained a separate folder for those who prefer to use other 3D programs. This folder is called Other Files. With this zip folder contains:
- FBX
- OBJ
- GLB (Augmented Reality)
- STL
- PLY
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