The Forgotten Yardley Jones Build 2008

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Round about December 2008 I was asked to make a model for a Christmas present.  The person in question was someone's husband, and had already seen examples of my models on the web.  I had ascertained that his favourite era of Doctor Who was late Tom Baker onwards, so I figured I knew which TARDIS he'd like.  Thus I started on my 2nd "Season 18" build.  This one went quite smoothly as having just completed an identical model a month or so ago I practically did this one on autopilot. 

6th Dec:  After the usual boring box assembly (which was no difficult to any of my other builds), I had painted the window frames (first in matt blue undercoat, then in gloss) and fitted the glass.  Sign boxes are on, as are two roof stacks. 

As before I made two "frosted" panes for the bottom corners. 

25 Dec:  Yes, I even found a bit of time on Christmas Day to paint it.  The sloped roof was much the same as the previous one, and the lamp assembly fairly simple, but then the prop itself is fairly simple. 

One full paint job and a matt varnish later... 

27 Dec and the signs are all on. 

28 Dec: This time I decided to go with four lamp supports instead of the canonical three, just because I don't like the three supports, it looks ugly.  The door handles are next. 

30 Dec: At this point it was finished.   I kept the model around for a few more days before it was picked up and taken down South as a birthday present.

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