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TARDIS Builders :: TARDIS Exterior :: TARDIS Builds :: Britishinks quick and dirty TARDIS Page 1 of 2 » Jump to page   Go     Author Topic: Britishinks quick and dirty TARDIS (Read 4,445 times) britishink Gallifreyan member is offline Joined: Mar 2009 Gender: Male Posts: 19 Karma: 6 Britishinks quick and dirty TARDIS « Thread Started on Mar 23, 2009, 5:55pm » I started this build three weeks ago and working in my spare time, an hour here and there, I've gotten pretty far. The idea was to make an indoor display TARDIS to serve as signage for an upcoming art exhibition. It has to be modular, easy to transport and still substantial enough to be believable. Here goes: stage 1: Bi fold doors 2x 18" wide Mark 'em up, drill and saw: Nail the rails on: Looking good: Push back the cardboard fill and insert window edges: 3/4" L molding for the window frames and 3/4" wide strips for the divisions: It's at this point I look at the paint and think...yeah, let's give it a try...: Plexi sprayed with glass frosting: This is the color I've been dreaming of, two coats, beautiful...: Lamp lens fell into my lap for 75cents, dowel, pieces of board and a light fixture domed cover, some styrofoam: Unpainted lamp: Painted: So far so good, and all in all about 15 hours work for three sides and lamp. Posts are next then roof....heh! You like? Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged britishink Gallifreyan member is offline Joined: Mar 2009 Gender: Male Posts: 19 Karma: 6 Re: Britishinks quick and dirty TARDIS « Reply #1 on Mar 23, 2009, 5:58pm » PS mock up in empty art space: Note the sign....blasphemy? Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged DOCTOR IZ Chancellor Senior Member member is offline Getting into the TARDIS - next stop England... Joined: Apr 2006 Gender: Male Posts: 764 Location: Near a large body of water Karma: 1,914 Re: Britishinks quick and dirty TARDIS « Reply #2 on Mar 23, 2009, 11:42pm » Great idea for the dome... Wish I would have thought of that one. I used a top of a push dome light for a closet. I looked at recessed lighting housing caps that are domed, but I had bugger the thing up to get off. Nice colour too! Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged atomicgraph Chancellor TR2 Logo Designer 2008 member is offline my other ride is a police box Joined: May 2007 Gender: Male Posts: 542 Location: a few days from now Karma: 6,158 Re: Britishinks quick and dirty TARDIS « Reply #3 on Mar 24, 2009, 12:10am » great start! its looking pretty good so far. Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged davidnagel Castellan member is offline Joined: Apr 2005 Gender: Male Posts: 158 Location: Bedford Karma: 3 Re: Britishinks quick and dirty TARDIS « Reply #4 on Mar 24, 2009, 4:22pm » It is quick and dirty isnt it but its looking oh so yummy looking forward to it complete Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Thanks, David DAM Productions www.damproductions.org britishink Gallifreyan member is offline Joined: Mar 2009 Gender: Male Posts: 19 Karma: 6 Re: Britishinks quick and dirty TARDIS « Reply #5 on Apr 1, 2009, 2:57pm » And there were corner posts... This one's way off, back corner I'd say... Roof and light boxes are next. Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged atomicgraph Chancellor TR2 Logo Designer 2008 member is offline my other ride is a police box Joined: May 2007 Gender: Male Posts: 542 Location: a few days from now Karma: 6,158 Re: Britishinks quick and dirty TARDIS « Reply #6 on Apr 1, 2009, 5:03pm » nice i love that shade of blue.. can you say what the color name is Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged britishink Gallifreyan member is offline Joined: Mar 2009 Gender: Male Posts: 19 Karma: 6 Re: Britishinks quick and dirty TARDIS « Reply #7 on Apr 2, 2009, 12:01am » I have the colour swatch in my psychic paper wallet...hang on...it's Benjamin Moore 2066-10 and it's called "Blue".....I kid you not. Eggshell finish, two coats, perfect. Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged britishink Gallifreyan member is offline Joined: Mar 2009 Gender: Male Posts: 19 Karma: 6 Re: Britishinks quick and dirty TARDIS « Reply #8 on Apr 15, 2009, 6:36pm » I took a break from the build to go to Vegas...back now and looking at a pile of lumber which needs to be a roof and light boxes. I'm going old school with the signs and screen printing them onto frosted plexi and a steel plate. I have about a month before the exhibition...tick..tock.. Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged britishink Gallifreyan member is offline Joined: Mar 2009 Gender: Male Posts: 19 Karma: 6 Re: Britishinks quick and dirty TARDIS « Reply #9 on Apr 15, 2009, 6:41pm » Photoshopped piccy...view from our space at Artomatic 2009 www.artomatic.org Honestly the Capitol Building is in the back behind the smoke stacks. Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged britishink Gallifreyan member is offline Joined: Mar 2009 Gender: Male Posts: 19 Karma: 6 Re: Britishinks quick and dirty TARDIS « Reply #10 on May 15, 2009, 5:00pm » I took a long break from the build but with the deadline looming (2 weeks) I got stuck in....this is the last two days- The roof top support frame with the rafters in place, I'll set them into the frame in 1/2" mortises... Like so... Now the top frame with the angled roof slides into the roof skirting and sits on the bottom frame which screws to the corner posts. Slid in and painted....tonight the roof panels and a second coat of paint. Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged britishink Gallifreyan member is offline Joined: Mar 2009 Gender: Male Posts: 19 Karma: 6 Re: Britishinks quick and dirty TARDIS « Reply #11 on May 15, 2009, 5:07pm » Oh... and of course I had to see what the lamp looks like on top. Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged atomicgraph Chancellor TR2 Logo Designer 2008 member is offline my other ride is a police box Joined: May 2007 Gender: Male Posts: 542 Location: a few days from now Karma: 6,158 Re: Britishinks quick and dirty TARDIS « Reply #12 on May 17, 2009, 1:29pm » not bad, looks good and solid. good luck with the deadline.... i always seem to work better under pressure. Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged britishink Gallifreyan member is offline Joined: Mar 2009 Gender: Male Posts: 19 Karma: 6 Re: Britishinks quick and dirty TARDIS « Reply #13 on May 18, 2009, 1:56am » Here's the roof with one coat of paint, yesterday. Now it has a second and looking darker. Tomorrow it's light boxes then electrics.... Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged dustyfro Castellan member is offline Build inspired by madness Joined: Apr 2009 Gender: Female Posts: 153 Location: Oregon, USA Karma: 10 Re: Britishinks quick and dirty TARDIS « Reply #14 on May 18, 2009, 2:26am » What a beautiful color of blue! I like the way you scraped your lamp together from bits and pieces...I think i'm going to have to do the same thing until I come into enough money to upgrade. Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Hannah britishink Gallifreyan member is offline Joined: Mar 2009 Gender: Male Posts: 19 Karma: 6 Re: Britishinks quick and dirty TARDIS « Reply #15 on May 19, 2009, 4:20am » I did a quick fit together tonight to get the final light-box measurements. It's freaking huge! Me next to it for scale. Now I have a nice template drawn up to accommodate the molding on the posts, sign boxes away....... Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Scarfwearer Administrator member is offline Joined: Feb 2009 Gender: Male Posts: 175 Location: Somewhere beginning with 'S' Karma: 12 Re: Britishinks quick and dirty TARDIS « Reply #16 on May 19, 2009, 11:56am » Looking good - it'll be even taller on a base. It's very quick, but could be dirtier... some dilute black paint rubbed on with a cloth is good for that weathered look, if you want to go that route, but start at the back first if you try that - it's easy to put too much on. Crispin Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged britishink Gallifreyan member is offline Joined: Mar 2009 Gender: Male Posts: 19 Karma: 6 Re: Britishinks quick and dirty TARDIS « Reply #17 on May 19, 2009, 1:43pm » As this box will be the walk-through doorway into the tattoo studio, for Joe Public to pass through, I have to leave the base off as it'll be a tripping hazard. Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged DoctorWho8 Lord President member is offline Joined: Apr 2005 Gender: Male Posts: 918 Location: Bloomington, IL, USA Karma: 1,039 Re: Britishinks quick and dirty TARDIS « Reply #18 on May 19, 2009, 3:59pm » You could do what they did in the 1996 TV Movie for the scene where a police motorcycle drives through the TARDIS, you keep the center of the base open and only building on the sides. Does that make sense? Bill Rudloff Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged atomicgraph Chancellor TR2 Logo Designer 2008 member is offline my other ride is a police box Joined: May 2007 Gender: Male Posts: 542 Location: a few days from now Karma: 6,158 Re: Britishinks quick and dirty TARDIS « Reply #19 on May 22, 2009, 12:36am » your build is coming right along look nice. i gotta agree with "the scarf" it could be dirtier another way you could make a base is to add it on like moulding.... please excuse the crudeness of this drawing but it's the first thing that popped into my mind when i read your delima good luck with it i'm sure it'll turn out great Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged britishink Gallifreyan member is offline Joined: Mar 2009 Gender: Male Posts: 19 Karma: 6 Re: Britishinks quick and dirty TARDIS « Reply #20 on May 22, 2009, 2:48pm » Thank you Atomic, I had that thought in mind too but I'm just going to leave it. No one will be looking down. So the sign boxes are complete and the "St. Johns" badge in place: Once we get it built in place, I'll paint a couple of coats of black wash over the whole thing, and for the inside (and the door that serves as the back wall) will be blackest black with "Bad Wolf" written in blood red. Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged DOCTOR IZ Chancellor Senior Member member is offline Getting into the TARDIS - next stop England... Joined: Apr 2006 Gender: Male Posts: 764 Location: Near a large body of water Karma: 1,914 Re: Britishinks quick and dirty TARDIS « Reply #21 on May 23, 2009, 1:25pm » Your build is really moving along nicely. Those sign boxes look great! I like what you did to the St. John's badge too. Nice personal touch aye... For the weathering, I completely agree with Crispin. It is quite easy to put too much black wash at first. It took me one panel to figure it out myself, which happened to be my front doors and they are bit over weathered. The side panels turned out wonderful. I would suggest starting on the back panel first and proceed to the other panel afterwords. You'll just get better the more you do it.. Looking forward to seeing her all completed. cheers, Jon~ Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged britishink Gallifreyan member is offline Joined: Mar 2009 Gender: Male Posts: 19 Karma: 6 Re: Britishinks quick and dirty TARDIS « Reply #22 on May 25, 2009, 11:43pm » So she's installed and the reaction has been great so far, the exhibition opens friday. And my lovely Missus "touching her up" Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Rassilons Rod Administrator member is offline I'm now half way to 70 :D Joined: Sept 2006 Gender: Male Posts: 1,366 Location: Endor :) Finland Karma: 171 Re: Britishinks quick and dirty TARDIS « Reply #23 on May 26, 2009, 8:02am » That last pic is excellent Its like a TARDIS version of having a sexy woman pose on the bonnet (hood, for stateside readers ) of a car -Marc Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Find us here: Facebook - YouTube - Mikseri - [url=http://www.myspace.com/aeonantenna]My avadh Castellan Senior Member member is offline Joined: May 2007 Gender: Male Posts: 370 Karma: 157 Re: Britishinks quick and dirty TARDIS « Reply #24 on May 26, 2009, 11:22am » A Fantastic tardis build and it reminds of the hartnell 60s tardis. Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged britishink Gallifreyan member is offline Joined: Mar 2009 Gender: Male Posts: 19 Karma: 6 Re: Britishinks quick and dirty TARDIS « Reply #25 on May 27, 2009, 3:12am » Ok, ok, final photos of the final product in place, with "Bad Wolf" on the door which is Big Blues back wall. Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged dustyfro Castellan member is offline Build inspired by madness Joined: Apr 2009 Gender: Female Posts: 153 Location: Oregon, USA Karma: 10 Re: Britishinks quick and dirty TARDIS « Reply #26 on May 27, 2009, 6:05am » I'd get a tattoo in a shop with a TARDIS out front! Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Hannah Timegirl Administrator member is offline Joined: May 2005 Gender: Female Posts: 989 Location: not in a galaxy far far away Karma: 106 Re: Britishinks quick and dirty TARDIS « Reply #27 on May 27, 2009, 10:38am » May 27, 2009, 6:05am, dustyfro wrote: I'd get a tattoo in a shop with a TARDIS out front! Me too TARDIS looks fantastic! Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Latest animation: 2001: A Who Odyssey http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXnV1UNbTuM Rassilons Rod Administrator member is offline I'm now half way to 70 :D Joined: Sept 2006 Gender: Male Posts: 1,366 Location: Endor :) Finland Karma: 171 Re: Britishinks quick and dirty TARDIS « Reply #28 on May 27, 2009, 5:58pm » Interestingly, I thought the first pics were taken outside! -Marc « Last Edit: May 28, 2009, 8:06pm by Rassilons Rod » Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Find us here: Facebook - YouTube - Mikseri - [url=http://www.myspace.com/aeonantenna]My DoctorWho8 Lord President member is offline Joined: Apr 2005 Gender: Male Posts: 918 Location: Bloomington, IL, USA Karma: 1,039 Re: Britishinks quick and dirty TARDIS « Reply #29 on May 28, 2009, 4:45pm » May 27, 2009, 5:58pm, Rassilons Rod wrote: Interestingly, I thought the first pics were taken outside! -Mark I thought so too. Perhaps there are large windows in front of the shop and the sun was bright at the time. 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