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How-To: Build an official BBC Dalek, ca 1973

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September 23rd, 2010 12

Apparently if you wrote to the BBC in the 1970s or early 1980s wanting to know how to build your own Dalek, they sent you this fantastic set of official plans, which are now preserved for posterity in the cloud-mind at Tom Rathborne’s site. [via Neatorama]

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