It was dirtied down to such an extent that the green colour is almost completely lost on set, however its paint scheme was highlighted in a promotional poster that came with the Radio Times prior to transmission of the episode. Renegade faction standard Dalek version 2 from McCoy era (probably a ton more classics I’ve forgotten plus variants of those as well.) Can you guys think of anymore Dalek ideas, (be it normal issue, rare or bonus) that I might have missed? These Dalek models present the Doctor's oldest and most feared foe recreates a specific moment from the TV series in loving detail, and every sculpt based on a detailed study of the original production photography, props, and drawings. Each Dalek is cast in a special metallic resin and painted by hand, in a perfect 1:21 scale and stands approximately 3 inches tall.

The third Dalek supplied by The Doctor Who Experience was again from its time-line display in the shape of the bronze NSD. This Dalek was made up from two sections that appeared at other previous exhibitions. Originally made by This Planet Earth, it was made up of two props built for for the Earls Court display in 2008. The top half was from TPE EC2 and the skirt from TPE EC1. The Dalek is quite distinctive because its large centre slat is rotated and, very much like NSDA4, its lowest hemisphere on the right-hand front panel is positioned too low. These Dalek models present the Doctor’s oldest and most feared foe recreates a specific moment from the TV series in loving detail, and every sculpt based on a detailed study of the original production photography, props and drawings. Each Dalek is cast in a special metallic resin and painted by hand, in a perfect 1:21 scale and stands approximately 8 cm tall. In recent years, many exhibition bronze Daleks which were not intended for screen use had been supplied by This Planet Earth. They have a number of distinctive features, such as the cowl for the eye stalk being moulded directly onto the dome. The long slats tend to curve, following the shape of the shoulders, and there are other minor traits.As the calendar turned to 2013 and the second half of Series Seven began transmission, thoughts were turning towards the 50th anniversary in November. The excitement was mounting but also tempered by the fact that once the eight episodes had aired, that would be it until November. However, appreciating the long wait for fans, the BBC began to conceive several events that would keep the show in the public eye and continue the momentum towards 23rd November. The strengthening plates inside the Dalek ensured that only minor damage was caused to the prop and so the various sections were salvaged and were returned to Wayland. As the hype had promised, the story featured Daleks from every era of the show and as such a huge number of props would be required to fulfil the demand. Not only would new props need to be built, a number would need to be borrowed from other sources to cover the previous styles of Daleks.

The brand new NPD-A props or a bronze NSD could also be seen in the reception of the studios at various times. Again, these would tend to change depending on what props were easiest to retrieve from storage. Once this had been achieved by Oswin Oswald (a human- turned- Dalek), the Parliament launched numerous missiles and successfully destroyed the entire planet, though not before Oswin erased all information about the Doctor from the pathweb. As a result, the members of the Parliament were therefore unable to recognise him when the Doctor teleported onto the vessel, and they repeatedly asked the Question: "Doctor Who?". Moments before the Doctor escaped from their vessel in his TARDIS, he recognised this was a watershed moment in his history with his worst enemies, and he thanked Oswin for accomplishing this. ( TV: Asylum of the Daleks) As Amy enters the chamber in which she hallucinates a ballerina and other people (who are, in fact Daleks), a high shot includes five of the aforementioned twelve borrowed Daleks. The Special Weapons Dalek was excluded from this view because its inclusion would have given away the fact that this was the same set that Rory had been seen in earlier in the story.

Despite the reaction to the New Paradigm Daleks, Moffat included them in his scripts. In fact, in interviews since Series Five, he had been indicating that he had conceived them as the superior ranks of the Daleks and the bronze Daleks were the rank and file drones 1.

Pictures taken of rehearsals raised levels of excitement yet more, as beautiful replica props from the 60s and 70s were seen mingling with New Paradigm versions and other bronze casings. Unfortunately, by the time the props had reached studio, their appearance had been much altered with heavy weathering all but hiding their original colours. Whilst it was true that there was a Dalek from ever era, the story was shot and edited in such a way that it was very hard to tell.Asylum of the Daleks was transmitted on 1st September 2012 and, as the Series Seven opener, it received heavy promotion not least because it included so many older style Daleks. Doctor Who Magazine featured the Daleks on their cover again for the opening of the new season. Three ‘collectable’ covers were created, each featuring one of the first three stories. For the Dalek cover, NSDAD1 was the main Dalek in the centre which gave a great view of all the damage that had been added to the prop. It was flanked by AB2 on the left and TPE-D on the right. An unprecedented fifteen Dalek operators were required for the story including stalwarts Barnaby Edwards and Nicholas Pegg. Edwards and Pegg carried out all the main work that involved complicated manoeuvres and so found themselves hopping between a number of the different props. There was occasional use of the radio controlled domes being fitted to props without an operator. In the main it was a batch of seven of the eight new bronze props that carried all the work in the finished asylum scenes. NSDA3 being the only complete new prop that didn’t appear in the gigantic, murky chamber.