A Doctor Who fanatic has shown off his 30 year collection - including Daleks from across the decades. <br /><br />Phil Stevens. 55, has amassed a huge haul of memorabilia from the show and said he is now struggling to find room to store it. <br /><br />The sci-fi superfan has been building and restoring models since he was a child and now has an army of Daleks, Cybermen and patrol robots living in a storage unit just minutes from his house.<br /><br />Phil, of Stratton, Wilts., says he has lost count of how many life-sized models he has amassed - and tells his wife he has no idea where they are coming from.<br /><br />He said: "I’ve just been collecting stuff for years and years.<br /><br />“I have no idea how many models I have currently. They just keep on appearing out of nowhere and I don’t know how it happens. At least, that’s what I tell my wife anyway.”<br /><br />Phil said he has long been a fan of the iconic tv series and his favourite item is a full size replica of the Golden Emperor Dalek from the 1960s TV21 Comic.<br /><br />He added: "With my Dr. Who collection, my interest is more in the production side of the show. I have tended to concentrate on props, models and paperwork, like scripts, designs and production office items, like letters, memos, location planning rather than memorabilia, like autographs, posters or toys.<br /><br />"I’ve been collecting for over thirty years as I’ve been a fan of the show, both the “classic” and the new series, for as long as I can remember. <br /><br />"Everything has been built up slowly over time. It’s a mix of original and replica items. Certainly the larger items, like the monsters, are replica ones - original ones are pretty rare and very expensive."<br /><br />Phil said his collection had grown so much he has struggled to find space - and on his wife's orders, nothing is kept in the house.<br /><br />He added: "I don’t keep anything in the house, the collection takes up a lot of room. <br /><br />"Something like a Dalek is only about five feet tall, which may not sound like much … but the amount of floor area 'footprint' it takes is about the same as a double wardrobe. <br /><br />"One Dalek would certainly “exterminate” most of the space in an average-sized room. That’s why it’s all in a storage unit. <br /><br />"It’s secure and the temperature is controlled, very important with some original items that are quite fragile and sensitive to temperature changes.<br /><br />"The highlight of my collection is a full size replica of the Golden Emperor Dalek, which is from the “Daleks” strip in the 1960s TV21 Comic. I built it myself, as I make and restore props and models and make things for exhibitions. <br /><br />"I’m not quite old enough to have read the strips when they were first published, but they’ve all been reprinted subsequently and I’ve thoroughly enjoyed reading them."<br /><br />And Phil said model making had become more than just a hobby.
