Exterior Builds

When you decide to actually start building your TARDIS, create yourself a thread here and show us what you're doing! Pictures are welcome. When you finish, go over to the Exterior Gallery, and make a thread over there with some nice photos of your work.

TARDIS Builders :: TARDIS Exterior :: TARDIS Builds :: a new police box « Page 3 of 6 » Jump to page   Go     Author Topic: a new police box (Read 4,222 times) Sorvan Castellan Senior Member member is offline "STOP SAWING THE TABLE" Joined: Oct 2005 Gender: Male Posts: 428 Location: Winnipeg, MB, Canada Karma: 150,159 Re: a new police box « Reply #60 on Sept 30, 2007, 5:01am » Quote: its kinda wild to see it as one color even if it is white. It's a ghost TARDIS! It really looks fabulous. I especially like that last picture. Colin Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. chris rowand Castellan Senior Member, TR Feb 07 member is offline Joined: Jan 2006 Gender: Male Posts: 381 Karma: 1,802 Re: a new police box « Reply #61 on Sept 30, 2007, 10:13am » Atomicgraph thats a lovely looking box you have made yourself. I particularly like the white box photos. Mine was primed in white as well. I actually like the white look and think they should all be that colour. It would end the debate over which shade of blue. Or would it?.... Mmmm is it frosted white or pepper white??? No it's its arctic white of course. 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: a new police box « Reply #62 on Sept 30, 2007, 1:53pm » Quote: Quote: its kinda wild to see it as one color even if it is white. It's a ghost TARDIS! It really looks fabulous. I especially like that last picture. Colin ha, it is rather ghostly looking. thank you sorvan. 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: a new police box « Reply #63 on Sept 30, 2007, 2:01pm » Quote: Atomicgraph thats a lovely looking box you have made yourself. I particularly like the white box photos. Mine was primed in white as well. I actually like the white look and think they should all be that colour. It would end the debate over which shade of blue. Or would it?.... Mmmm is it frosted white or pepper white??? No it's its arctic white of course. thanks chris, i'm very happy with it and the kids are gonna flip out when they see it, they were excited when i hung the doors with all the handels on it. you are 100% right about the debate so i'll go ahead and take the liberty of ending here it is frosted white , with pepper white over sprayed, and then arctic white lightly washed over some of the surface 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: a new police box « Reply #64 on Sept 30, 2007, 7:01pm » Quote: Quote: It's a ghost TARDIS! It really looks fabulous. I especially like that last picture. Colin ha, it is rather ghostly looking. thank you sorvan. ...and not without precedent in the show. Here's a shot from "The Mind Robber": Crispin 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: a new police box « Reply #65 on Sept 30, 2007, 10:16pm » hello again, it was a beautiful day today, low humidity, with plenty of sunshine. and my tardis is blue forgive me for taking so many photos Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Sorvan Castellan Senior Member member is offline "STOP SAWING THE TABLE" Joined: Oct 2005 Gender: Male Posts: 428 Location: Winnipeg, MB, Canada Karma: 150,159 Re: a new police box « Reply #66 on Oct 1, 2007, 12:22am » Quote: Upon seeing this picture, my first thought was: That guy is huge!!! Somehow I'd missed/forgotten that this isn't a full size build. Colin Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. 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: a new police box « Reply #67 on Oct 1, 2007, 3:28am » remember the part in logoplisis its a shrinking tardis. yea its scaled down a bit but my friend jason is pretty tall about 6'3 give or take. my walls are about 67 inches tall and about 36 inches wide. and my posts are about 6 inches wide « Last Edit: Oct 1, 2007, 3:29am by atomicgraph » 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: a new police box « Reply #68 on Oct 1, 2007, 6:31am » Quote: remember the part in logoplisis its a shrinking tardis. yea its scaled down a bit but my friend jason is pretty tall about 6'3 give or take. my walls are about 67 inches tall and about 36 inches wide. and my posts are about 6 inches wide I'm guessing by the panels that its a New Series TARDIS. But for some reason (maybe the lack of windows or signage) I get the feeling of a Newberry build... -Marc Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Find us here: Facebook - YouTube - Mikseri - [url=http://www.myspace.com/aeonantenna]My 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: a new police box « Reply #69 on Oct 1, 2007, 12:21pm » its a hybrid, when i scaled it down i had to make it wide enough for our tv and tall enough to fit in our house. i like all the lines of the older boxes so after i started thats what i tried to duplicate. hows my blue? Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged avadh Castellan Senior Member member is offline Joined: May 2007 Gender: Male Posts: 370 Karma: 157 Re: a new police box « Reply #70 on Oct 1, 2007, 2:51pm » Absolutely Brilliant work atomicgraph. Very season 18 like from what I can see and the shade of blue looks great as well. 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: a new police box « Reply #71 on Oct 3, 2007, 2:24am » hello again, i picked up some more of that light diffuser for my windows. when my buddy came over to paint he told me how to cut it so it doesn't crack and fly into pieces a laughed at me when i told him i tried to cut it with a skill saw. use a straight edge and line it up where you need to cut and clamp it down. then "score" it along the edge of the straight edge. using a tool similar to this you may need to do it a few times i'm pretty sure you could use a box cutter to but this tool has a nice little angle on the end. then take a small edge and place it on the under side. press down at one edge to cress the glass. it's pretty easy. ... and i picked up my signs today a guy i know started up a sign shop about a year ago and he did them for me. i got all 4 for $50.00. this is what they will look like lit can't wait to put her all together 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: a new police box « Reply #72 on Oct 3, 2007, 2:28am » Quote: Absolutely Brilliant work atomicgraph. Very season 18 like from what I can see and the shade of blue looks great as well. thank you sir. i think i'm gonna keep with my tradition of inaccuracy and make the door sign white, but i made a blue copy as well. once i get it all together again, i guess i'll make that call. 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: a new police box « Reply #73 on Oct 4, 2007, 3:57am » well every thing is built, i finished off my sign boxes, and made my base i added wheels to the bottom. while working on it i noticed this poor spider frozen in time, in a tardis Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged policeboxnut Castellan member is offline I am going to build a TARDIS. Yes I am Joined: Nov 2005 Gender: Male Posts: 167 Location: Kent, England, Karma: 50 Re: a new police box « Reply #74 on Oct 4, 2007, 8:42am » poor thing didn't get out the way quick enough!!! Sprayed to death....it's actually quite impressive. Will you leave him/her there? « Last Edit: Oct 4, 2007, 8:43am by policeboxnut » Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged "It's only significant if you find significance insignificant" - Slipback 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: a new police box « Reply #75 on Oct 4, 2007, 12:19pm » i want to leave him but i almost scraped him off a few times last night by accident. i'm sure he won't last through the move to the art show on saturday Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Tom Chancellor member is offline Joined: Apr 2005 Gender: Male Posts: 684 Location: New Brunswick, Canada Karma: 33 Re: a new police box « Reply #76 on Oct 4, 2007, 1:14pm » Quote: well every thing is built, i finished off my sign boxes, and made my base i added wheels to the bottom. while working on it i noticed this poor spider frozen in time, in a tardis Cassandra was spying on you? T 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: a new police box « Reply #77 on Oct 4, 2007, 3:19pm » Quote: its a hybrid, when i scaled it down i had to make it wide enough for our tv and tall enough to fit in our house. i like all the lines of the older boxes so after i started thats what i tried to duplicate. hows my blue? The blue is awesome Actually I'm kinda used to seeing the Newbury with square panels, cos when I moved here I couldn't find the TV remote for ages and all my videos were stretched into widescreen -Marc 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: a new police box « Reply #78 on Oct 4, 2007, 4:43pm » Is it me or did you paint your fresnel blue? Blue spider = Metelbilis III comeback Bill "the Doctor" 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: a new police box « Reply #79 on Oct 4, 2007, 9:35pm » Quote: Quote: well every thing is built, i finished off my sign boxes, and made my base i added wheels to the bottom. while working on it i noticed this poor spider frozen in time, in a tardis Cassandra was spying on you? T good one 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: a new police box « Reply #80 on Oct 4, 2007, 9:40pm » Quote: Quote: its a hybrid, when i scaled it down i had to make it wide enough for our tv and tall enough to fit in our house. i like all the lines of the older boxes so after i started thats what i tried to duplicate. hows my blue? The blue is awesome Actually I'm kinda used to seeing the Newbury with square panels, cos when I moved here I couldn't find the TV remote for ages and all my videos were stretched into widescreen -Marc thank you, it might be better to say inspired by the "newbury" as it is completely inaccurate from the square panels, and only two steps under the sign boxes. « Last Edit: Oct 7, 2007, 4:00am by atomicgraph » 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: a new police box « Reply #81 on Oct 4, 2007, 9:43pm » Quote: Is it me or did you paint your fresnel blue? Blue spider = Metelbilis III comeback Bill "the Doctor" Rudloff it's not the lens thats painted i put a small board in it to hold up the lamp cap and posts for paint. i still need to wire up the light and then put the lens on. 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: a new police box « Reply #82 on Oct 7, 2007, 3:25am » hello again everybody, the art show was today and my phone booth made it! i worked till 11:00 last night finishing it up (and also i missed the season finially of dr who, i plan on getting the box set when it comes out in november), and this morning was the first time i got to see it all together. everybody loved it. some knew what it was while others saw that it was an old british phone box and not a tardis, i though that was pretty interesting. i think that the kids enjoyed it the most but it brought a smile to almost everybodys face when they saw it. well it's sad that the journey has almost come to an end, with the exception of setting it up in my bedroom. i'd like to thank my dad who let me use his shop to build this in and my friend jason who painted it for me, and also the people on this board for posting their builds and sharing their ideas. so thanks every one, i'm now a proud owner of a tardis. also i think my booth made it on the news there was a tv crew filming i'll have to tune in tonight and find out. emil (that guy in the last photo) « Last Edit: Apr 17, 2008, 9:42pm by atomicgraph » 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: a new police box « Reply #83 on Oct 7, 2007, 5:08am » That looks nice. Is the spider still there? Bill "the Doctor" 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: a new police box « Reply #84 on Oct 7, 2007, 1:39pm » the spider is gone it got scraped off while i was loading all the pieces into the truck but i kinda figured that would happen. 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: a new police box « Reply #85 on Oct 7, 2007, 2:00pm » here are some more photo's, i'm gonna set it up today with all the lights working Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Admin account Administrator member is offline Joined: Apr 2005 Gender: Male Posts: 1,188 Karma: 0 Re: a new police box « Reply #86 on Oct 7, 2007, 7:58pm » LOVE IT!!! A fast and very nice build indeed, earning you the title of TARDIS ReBuilder for October, and a large rise in your karma points!! Well done you! Next time, when you build the full size deal... just please avoid spiders. « Last Edit: Oct 7, 2007, 8:00pm by Admin account » Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged chris rowand Castellan Senior Member, TR Feb 07 member is offline Joined: Jan 2006 Gender: Male Posts: 381 Karma: 1,802 Re: a new police box « Reply #87 on Oct 7, 2007, 9:07pm » Fantastic work there mate. Absolutely lovely, well done. I'm glad it was well received by the public. 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: a new police box « Reply #88 on Oct 8, 2007, 1:19am » Awesome job mate! A job well done. Any plans for a full size build? The spider was a nice piece! 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: a new police box « Reply #89 on Oct 8, 2007, 2:40am » well i got her all together and my wife and i decided it would be to large for our entertainment center (even though it's scaled down a bit it's still pretty big to have in our bedroom) but don't worry she's up in my office as a cabinet and it's perfect storage for all my clutter i've got one florescent light in my front sign box and it lights the whole inside pretty good. i've been invited to do another art show in december and they want me to bring my tardis!!! thanks again Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged « Page 3 of 6 » Jump to page   Go     Forum Jump--------------------» Home--------------------» General--------------------- About the Forum- About the Members- General TARDIS Discussion- General Off Topic Conversation- The Police Public Call Box- Fan Films- Props from the Shops- Links--------------------» Advice and Assistance--------------------- Plans- Tutorials- Lumber/Timber/Wood choices- The Lamp- The Roof- The Top Signs- The Windows- Glass- Panels- Door and Door Sign- The Phone- Handles and Locks- Walls, Posts and Assembly- Base- Paint, Texturing and Dirt Washes- Weatherproofing- TARDIS Sound Effects--------------------» TARDIS Exterior--------------------- TARDIS Reference --- Film and Stage TARDIS Reference- TARDIS Workshop- TARDIS Builds- TARDIS Virtual and Model Builds- TARDIS Gallery--------------------» TARDIS Interior--------------------- Console Reference- Console Workshop- Console Builds- Console Virtual and Model Builds- Console Gallery--------------------» Other Props--------------------- Other Prop Reference- Other Prop Workshop- K9 Builds- Cyberman Builds- Sonic Screwdriver/Toolkit Builds- Dalek Builds- Costume Making- Other Prop Builds- Other Prop Gallery--------------------» The Archives--------------------- The TARDIS Builder's Guild Archive- The TARDIS Rebuilders 1 Archive