I know it's about as lore un-friendly as it gets so please no comments about that (I already know).

I'm looking to create it in Max and I thought it would be a good project to educate me more about 3DS, I have lots of info on Dalek dimensions etc but I'm unsure about animation. So I'm hoping someone can give me some pointers about how to go about it, I wouldn't want to go making it as one mesh and find out later that I needed one for each moving part or create bones first?

If someone is willing to help mentor me on this or suggest some good tutorials I would greatly appreciate it. It would be a slow burn background project and I promise not to pester (much).

Thanks.

....stands back, waits for flames.

Oh, I don't know - Dwemer Daleks could be kinda lore-friendly.

Plus timey-wimey dragonbreak stuff.

Afraid I can't help at the moment, but good luck!