Obit: Ray Cusick - Designer of Daleks

Subject: Obit: Ray Cusick - Designer of Daleks
From: Leadfingers
Date: 23 Feb 13 - 07:18 PM

After an illness , died peacefully last Thursday .

Subject: RE: Obit: Ray Cusick - Designer of Daleks
From: Little Robyn
Date: 23 Feb 13 - 08:10 PM

Exterminated!
RIP
Robyn

Subject: RE: Obit: Ray Cusick - Designer of Daleks
From: oldhippie
Date: 23 Feb 13 - 08:54 PM

RIP, Ray. Your legacy lives on.

Subject: RE: Obit: Ray Cusick - Designer of Daleks
From: alanabit
Date: 24 Feb 13 - 05:28 AM

When I think of how much those things terrified me when I was six or seven... I saw him years later on the BBC explaining how he managed to create that hi-tech marvel. It included salvaging blinkers from the wreck of a Morris Minor! He turned out to be a likeable bloke with a great sense of humour. Job well done!

Subject: RE: Obit: Ray Cusick - Designer of Daleks
From: fat B****rd
Date: 24 Feb 13 - 03:18 PM

RIP Mr. Cusick.

Subject: RE: Obit: Ray Cusick - Designer of Daleks
From: DMcG
Date: 24 Feb 13 - 04:09 PM

It included salvaging blinkers from the wreck of a Morris Minor!

In the days before CGI and huge special effects (and even today sometimes, where my daughter has had to design sets for amateur and small professional shows with a budget as low as £50), that's what designers did: they saw objects in scrapheaps and skips and thought how to use them for maximum effect. And Ray excelled at that.

Subject: RE: Obit: Ray Cusick - Designer of Daleks
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Feb 13 - 04:27 PM

Is that why they called them ray guns lol !