(Thanks to quicksilverjen for the title!!)
When I read about this challenge, I knew right away what I was going to make. What a better use of bumpy Easter eggs than to make a dalek?
Daleks are evil creatures and the Doctor's biggest enemy in Dr Who. They have a unique shell with knobbly bits all over, as seen
here.Here's a great '
anatomy of a dalek' page. My dalek isn't quite so fully operational.
I made the dalek from 100% recycled parts. The easter eggs were from the parish egg hunt, a plastic wastebin for the body, an old plastic tub for the head, a dried up glue-stick for the eye stick. The silver and blue spray paint were the only bought materials. I used every single leftover egg from the hunt, which was mostly bits of mismatched bottoms and tops.
First I gathered the materials:
Then I spraypainted the first bath of egg halves (the rounded, less pointy ends) blue for the body knobs, aka, the sensory globes. This was a matte blue- it does not show well in the photo, but the combo of the matte blue with the super shiny silver looks pretty cool.
I spaypainted the body, arms, and head silver, and then covered the head with painter's tape in a checkerboard pattern, and spraypainted black. Everything is hot glued on.
I made the 'arms' by hot gluing the other (pointier) ends together, and spraypainting silver.
The 'feet' are made of black, round end easter eggs, as are the details- the 'eye' and 'hand,' for example.
I am really happy with this guy! Who knew such an evil creature could be so cute?
