Ok, for this one I started out with
plans for a "Newbery" Build. Loosely based on the BBC prop built by Barry
Newbery that appeared on Doctor Who between the years of 1976 and 1980, I very
quickly decided that I wanted something that looked like the TARDIS as I
remembered it during the Jon Pertwee years (1970-1974). Basically very
flat-roofed.
The build proceeded in much the same
way as my previous two, with a few slight differences.
1. I used slightly thicker card
this time, deciding to experiment with Mounting Card from a local Long Eaton art
shop.
2. The plans I used printed out on A4,
and covered the whole sheet. Since I work very simply by measuring the
plans and transferring the measurements straight to card, this meant this TARDIS
was going to be slightly bigger than the last two.
We join the build towards the end when
I've made the box, windows, and signs. I've picked TAMIYA XF8 (Flat Blue)
acrylic matt paint this time. Here's the first coat going on. The window
frames were painted before the box was constructed and before the window panes
were glued on, to prevent me splashing blue onto the panes when painting.
Looks pretty blotchy, but that's due to
this being the first coat, and the flash which as usual shows up
everything.
Picture 4 - I've got the roof on
. That's the beauty of the prop in the 70s - the roof has been simplified
to just one very shallow peak. Which was a bugger to do, actually.
The angle is so shallow that my usual methods of calculating (Pythagoras'
Theorem) just weren't accurate enough. I was getting measurements that
relied on a fraction of a millimetre. In the end I just guessed, figuring
that as long as the roof looked accurate, it didn't have to be accurate. I was
prepared for a couple of aborted attempts, but I got lucky, and this is the
first roof. Ok you can see the uneven joins on the roof, but it's no worse
that what you might get in a cheap moulded toy, I can live with it.
Picture 5 - Once more the trusty
cotton-buds! It'll be well-nigh impossible to paint the lamp housing in situ, so
I'm going to paint both beforehand and just "touch up" and varnish later as
necessary, once it's been fitted.
Right, here's the lamp. Another pen from
Rymans gives up its cap to serve as part of something greater. And if
you must know, the dome is a plastic screw cap from Wilkos.
You don't really want to see the boring painting
and glueing of the lamp assembly, so let's assume everything went as you imagine
(and if you can imagine it, why do you need to see it? It's a lamp
housing!), and we'll move onto the interesting bits - the signs.
These are my old standard jpg printed to colour laser, then laser copied
onto transparency, in this case transparent text on black print. Paint
the back with white acrylic, allow to dry and then glue
on.
Picture 4 above and all the signs are
on. Ta-da!! Oh and the lamp.
Oh look, a Dalek has appeared to
investigate! A door handle has appeared also (handle - singular -
I've seen Pertwee and he no longer has one on the phone-panel). And if
you're interested, like the last one, it's a bit of aerial lead core
wire bent sort of handle-y and glued into two
holes.
I may probably get round to the Yale
lock eventually, but after varnishing with clear matt, I consider this build
more or less completed. So time for more posey shots.