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TARDIS Builders :: TARDIS Exterior :: TARDIS Builds :: Simon's Tardis « Page 2 of 2 Jump to page   Go     Author Topic: Simon's Tardis (Read 5,064 times) bluebellhillbuild Gallifreyan member is offline Joined: Oct 2009 Gender: Male Posts: 24 Karma: 3 Re: Simon's Tardis « Reply #30 on Dec 15, 2009, 9:38am » Hi there - as I have well and truly blown the £350 budget I am doing the signs on the cheap. I have used an image I got online for a weathered colour print, which I have then laminated. I will then put a sheet of clear perspex in front of it, and hopefully seal it to prevent water getting in. Much as I'd like to do this properly..... My big problem is that it is now so cold in the garage, that the paint is not drying quickly enough. 24 hours for gloss and it is still tacky to the touch. I am getting worried that I will not have time to finish it all off. I have the floor and roof left to prime, undercoat and paint. Damn the British Winter - global warming had better hurry up! 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: Simon's Tardis « Reply #31 on Dec 16, 2009, 12:19am » hey blue you could always try a space heater to speed up the process. looking forward to the final pics Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged magepro Time Lord member is offline I'll put the piano here and the couch over there... Joined: Jul 2009 Gender: Male Posts: 54 Location: Near Indianapolis Karma: 1 Re: Simon's Tardis « Reply #32 on Dec 16, 2009, 1:51am » Space heaters are a good and a bad idea. They will help you dry faster, but the odd heat balance tends to make paint dry unevenly. Of course, this would produce somewhat of a weathered look and that's OK. Now it could also cause the wood to warp a little and make your door stick or other parts not fit together quite right. Is this more weathering? If it is set too close, it could ignite your paint or wood producing yet more... weathering? OK, so I guess it's a good thing then, eh? Seriously, watch your humidity levels until you get everything put together. Let us know how it turns out. Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Until next time, remember to, “Simply reverse the polarity of the neutron flow.” ** Tom bluebellhillbuild Gallifreyan member is offline Joined: Oct 2009 Gender: Male Posts: 24 Karma: 3 Re: Simon's Tardis « Reply #33 on Dec 16, 2009, 1:59pm » Thanks for the help guys. Unfortunately, lack of a heater is a problem, short of firing up the barbecue.... I am hoping tonight to finish the panels and signs, and undercoat the roof. Christmas Eve will require sending the kids off to their grandparents and hope it all fits together outside. Knowing my luck it will be blowing a gale and pouring with rain....... And then they'll probably say they wanted an x-box for Christmas! 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: Simon's Tardis « Reply #34 on Dec 18, 2009, 6:04am » Hurry up, Santa! Get some elves to help you! I did my door sign just by printing it off the computer and laminating it too. I weathered it with a dried out ink pad and cotton ball. The framed signs I had printed at a shop and laminated. My problem with people fooling with it is when they try to open both doors at once. The pull to open door doesn't have any friction when it opens, so they pull on both handles and one big door comes open, and one little door comes open and they get confused. I jump when they rap on the windows because it's brittle stuff. « Last Edit: Dec 18, 2009, 6:04am by dustyfro » Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Hannah slidinsidewayz Gallifreyan member is offline Joined: Sept 2006 Gender: Male Posts: 33 Location: Australia Karma: 4 Re: Simon's Tardis « Reply #35 on Dec 18, 2009, 11:00am » Your main door opens outward then? 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: Simon's Tardis « Reply #36 on Dec 18, 2009, 7:12pm » She made a TARDIS Entertainment center. Check out her build thread if you haven't done so already. Bill Rudloff Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged bluebellhillbuild Gallifreyan member is offline Joined: Oct 2009 Gender: Male Posts: 24 Karma: 3 Re: Simon's Tardis « Reply #37 on Dec 18, 2009, 10:51pm » Last weekend and the pressures on! I have finished all the painting now, except for the floor. I need about 2 hours more work and then it is just putting it all together in the garden. It is so cold in the garage - up on the hill here we have had over a foot of snow last night. Painting with woolly gloves on is not to be recommended! Tomorrow I must sand down the perpsex. Unfortunately, the sheets I got are about 2mm too big to fit into the panels. Anyone got any good ideas on how to get them to fit? I am planning to try the electric sander. 2mm!!!!! Why didn't I measure after I had made the panels?! Is there a thread on here for 'why the hell did I do that?'? Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged kiwidoc Administrator member is offline Joined: Apr 2005 Gender: Male Posts: 417 Location: Christchurch, New Zealand Karma: 6,017 Re: Simon's Tardis « Reply #38 on Dec 18, 2009, 11:19pm » hehe - sounds like you've got a few challenging factors to contend with but it'll all be worth it when you cross the finish line (self defined...). good idea for a thread too, I could conirbute a few volumes to that. One of my favourite old threads used to be the TARDIS-related injuries stories (only because I can relate to so many rather than being prurient)! Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged The TARDIS Library - http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~trekker/policeboxes Scarfwearer Administrator member is offline Joined: Feb 2009 Gender: Male Posts: 175 Location: Somewhere beginning with 'S' Karma: 12 Re: Simon's Tardis « Reply #39 on Dec 19, 2009, 4:26pm » Dec 18, 2009, 10:51pm, bluebellhillbuild wrote: Tomorrow I must sand down the perpsex. Unfortunately, the sheets I got are about 2mm too big to fit into the panels. Anyone got any good ideas on how to get them to fit? I am planning to try the electric sander. A few suggestions: Try your cutting technique on an off-cut before trimming one of your precut pieces. Perspex doesn't conduct heat well, so it may melt if it gets heated by sanding or slow blades. If you sand the edge, draw a cut line on the perspex first. Seems obvious but I didn't think of it first time I sanded an edge off something. Perspex chips and splits easily. You can saw it with a fast saw or router on a router table, but moving the perspex slowly. If the edge is not well supported near the blade, put some sacrificial wood under it to hold it up. This will help to prevent splitting and chipping. Hope this helps. Crispin Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged deck5 Time Lord member is offline Joined: Aug 2009 Gender: Male Posts: 68 Karma: 6 Re: Simon's Tardis « Reply #40 on Dec 19, 2009, 5:26pm » Another tip for cutting brittle plastic -- put masking tape over the cut line, on the top and bottom surface. Prevents chipping. Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged bluebellhillbuild Gallifreyan member is offline Joined: Oct 2009 Gender: Male Posts: 24 Karma: 3 Re: Simon's Tardis « Reply #41 on Dec 23, 2009, 4:43pm » Thanks for the help. The problem with cutting 2mm off is that there is no room for error. I am going to try using my tile cutter with a glass cutting blade to see if this can work. Big day tomorrow - it's time to dematerialise from the the garage and rematerialise in a completed form at the bottom of the garden. We still have about 10cm of snow so I see myself out with the hairdrier tomorrow to lay clear a site for the paving slabs! I found a great console on Ebay which although is quite small has the lighting and moving column going up and down with the sound fx. Tomorrow I will take some photos and let you see the finished (hopefully!) box. I don't know who will be more pleased - me or the kids! 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: Simon's Tardis « Reply #42 on Dec 26, 2009, 2:33pm » i'm sure i'm not the only one dying to know how it went. what did the kids think? Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged bluebellhillbuild Gallifreyan member is offline Joined: Oct 2009 Gender: Male Posts: 24 Karma: 3 Re: Simon's Tardis « Reply #43 on Dec 27, 2009, 1:37pm » A happy Christmas to everyone! I hope you all had a great few days. I had hoped to upload the photos earlier, but today I had to go down to A&E for chest pains. I'm only 37! Thankfully, it is (just!) a chest infection, so I have to rest. Probably all the solvent vapours inhaled during construction.....shhhh don't tell my wife! This was after I had laid some paving slabs to get the ground level. No easy feat as every slab seemed to point in opposite directions. Many a choice word was said..... And this is the almost completed version. Note the door is not yet fixed. Overall, I was quite pleased, although I think the roof is probably a bit too high - maybe a few inches too tall. With hindsight I think I should have measured a lot more than I did On Christmas Eve, it was a bit hairy as to whether it was all going to get finished - I ran out of time to fix a separate switch to the flashing lamp at the top. It was pitch black by the time I got around to that and standing at the top of a ladder inside was no fun. I decided that was a job that could be done later - the lamp worked, but it was not very elegant way of turning it on - climbing a ladder and putting the battery in to turn it on and taking the battery out to turn it off! Also, I need to make the top water proof because there is a 1cm gap around the top of the signs and the base of the roof. Oh well, Tardis Mark II will be perfect...! 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: Simon's Tardis « Reply #44 on Dec 27, 2009, 7:32pm » your tardis has a nice hartnel feel to it. glad to see you met your deadline and yes getting it not to leak is pretty hard to do. there are a lot of flat surfaces on the roof section that water will pool up on but once you get your force field up and running it shouldn't be a problem at all. 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