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Dalek Strategist: New Dalek ParadigmEngineered with superior battle computers and a greater aptitude for original thinking, the Dalek Strategists produced from the Progenitor template are extremely formidable planners and coordinators. Able to draw upon the distilled experience of several thousand years of warfare, they are able to formulate strategies to cope with every possible enemy or battlefield, wherever it is in space or time.
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In theory, I could have left this one as blue and just changed the Scientists colour (to something, anything other than orange), but red just seemed to fit better. And it does sort of vaguely tie in to the earlier era red Daleks I've done...if you squint.
Also, I've improved my NDP model's eye, ala the Time War Daleks.
Daleks = Terry Nation Estate
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I deliberately switched the colours schemes around to ones I prefered for the functions - I've made the Drone grey rather than red.
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Yes, very nice. If these would have been the redesign they probably would have stuck.
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It's brilliant! Love how you modified the neck section, fits in just perfectly with the head in my opinion. Keep up the good work! 
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Thanks, glad you like the design! I'm very happy with the smooth lines I was able to get on the neck section.
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Truly awesome. So much better than the paradigm design. Well done.
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Thanks! Glad you like it.
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-just wanted to say - this red is an excellent shade of it. Were it me I'd make the drones/warrior caste this color rather than any shade of gold or grey. Something in the way the base and spheres and the armbox section contrasts sharply rather than blends. And the red has a hint of bronze? It looks like a strong metal, anyway.
Suffice to say, an excellent color combo you've come up with here!
Gonna be twinking with Cybermen with new Gaiman-styles Cybs as inspiration in the future?
Eddy
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Glad you approve!
I will be doing Cybermen in Blender at some point, not sure how much the new design will influence me yet...I'll let you know!
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This is my favourite! Loving the shade of red and the blue eye!
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But of course you know that Daleks can't see the colour red... 
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I'm not even kidding.
I want to see your Scientist. Now.
H~
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You sir, are a visionary and a genius!
Continue the good work!
Plus the blue iris does work with the Paradigm Daleks; particularly on this one, a nice contrast of icy blue on dark red.
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Yeah, nice contrast, isn't it?
And thanks - I'll certainly be producing more soon!
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Certainly is mate.
*in Dalek voice* Production WILL continue!
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Okay, you're right, blue eye is better than fiery orange, I especially like how you stylized it, whether intentionally or accidentally, to look similar to the actual eye, with the pupil!
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Yeah, handy the way lights do that! I settled on this blue based on the camera eyes in the Asylum, which looked rather nice.
It's actually occurred to me that I didn't fully test how this looks at an angle...must do that later!
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When it comes to my 'Paradigm Daleks - Remastered' picture, Strategist Daleks are green, cos I felt that since real life armies like our British Armed Forces normally wear green uniforms, it seemed right in my version that green should be their colour, but what you've gone for is ok really
Are you planning to do a black Dalek version of this ?. That would be quite interesting.
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Eh, I've expressed my feelings on green Daleks before - suffice to say, it doesn't feature as a main colour in my normal Dalek palette!
Not sure about a Black Dalek using this model. Based on the previous stages in this project, I've been reserving full black for the Supreme, and the NDP Supreme is definitely white...
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I know, I just mentioned it as an example of what colour I would have gone for instead of using red.
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I miss the brighter colours, but this is good.
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Cheers. I deliberately muted the colours, as I have with all the red Daleks I've done in this series, to make them a little more serious. I was going for the metallic shade used on the NDP Dalek drones in 'Asylum of the Daleks', though I don't think I quite got it right...
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