With 24 Time War Daleks in the Exterminate! core set and Davros pack combined, I've had plenty of room to play around with variants. To encourage myself to paint the standard Daleks, however, I've tried to space out painting the more interesting varieties. I painted Davros and the Emperor's Guard after six standard Daleks, and now the Cult of Skaro (and a battle damaged Dalek) after nine. For me, painting this many (17, 18 counting Davros) miniatures from a single faction is pretty impressive- I tend to lack the stamina for long term (or at least consecutive) projects.
Part of this is probably due to the speed and enjoyment of painting these sculpts. The only tedious part is painting the 56 balls (or hemispheres, rather) around the central section..
Dalek Sec in particular was enjoyable- I was very pleased with how he turned out, a gloss varnish over the power slats, head and hemispheres really made him stand out in a group. It makes me look forward even more to painting Tom Baker era Daleks, with their grey and glossy black color schemes!
I also corrected an error from my previous Daleks on these (I first noticed it when researching my 9th Doctor Dalek)- there is a silver frame around the lights on top, which I had mistakenly identified as clear.
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