Console and Room Reference Images

[riftmaster]

AHHH! Every-time I nearly complete my 3d model, they add/change more things!
(wish i could have been there!    )
- riftmaster

[madgaz]

I was lucky enough to get a look in the console room and it really was bigger than I thought!
To be honest it was quite a different shape to how it seems on the TV!

The guys at the studios were great - encouraging us to play with the controls, etc! Brilliant! Everything moved, the lights worked - all that was missing was the TARDIS flight noise!

The screens both worked too, even the large GIANT roundel one!
The roundels seemed to be made from coiled up tubing, though I couldn't say which - I tried to think objectively, but I have to admit I think I became a child again! 

I do have some pictures which I'll see if I can upload later.
The new back wall reminded me of something from Lexx (if anyone is familiar with that strange show).

Will try and get the pics uploaded soon.

Gaz

[galacticprobe]

It's going to take me a while to get used to that... as that new balcony and window section kinda clashes with the rest of the console room.

Looking back at some of the reference photos of this console room such as these:



that balcony was always there. They've just made it more visible by extending those coral beams and giving it a railing.

The "web" window and archway are more fillers to give the "emptiness" that was there originally something to indicate entrances to other parts of the TARDIS, whereas before that area was just a black "nothingness" that looked like a sound stage:

(This angle is from the top of the stairs where Amy and Rory go in "The Doctor's Wife" when House tells them, "Run." See the area just to the right of the console column. That's where the web thing is now.)

They just open more possibilities for more stories set inside the TARDIS, and possibly (hopefully?) more parts within her. Since they're not in the most used camera angle they shouldn't be too difficult to get used to. We'll probably see them gradually more and more as Series 7 progresses. Unless, of course, they throw it into our faces during one episode, which is always a possibility. (However that web thing - ick - that arachnophobia again!)

Above images:
1st and 3rd courtesy of seanclarke1's earlier post
2nd courtesy of warmcanofcoke's earlier post

Dino.

[Kingpin]

Some more shots of the Matt Smith Console.  Not great in identifying specific parts, but very good for assembling a layout:

'Doctor Who' Convention Report 6 (Day 2): A Tour Of The TARDIS

Meanwhile, if high resolution shots are what you're after, you better skidaddle over to MiniOzi's Flickr gallery... it's unparalleled.

Edit:
And more from felgercarb

[galacticprobe]

There are a few good parts to ID. This image here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/miniozi/7020692717/sizes/l/in/set-72157629679744041/
shows what the little meters are, and in the lower right corner of the image is confirmation of one of those air jets that's above the seats in airplanes.

This image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/miniozi/6874593182/sizes/l/in/set-72157629679744041/ is some kind of pump. You can see the intake and output at the top and bottom of the red lever. (If you look very closely you can see "IN" on the bottom tube and "OUT" - though it's upside-down - on the top tube.)

The "Zigzag Plotter", http://www.flickr.com/photos/miniozi/7020697675/sizes/l/in/set-72157629679744041/ I'm guessing is a gear shifter from some vehicle, just not sure what sort of vehicle would use a shifter of this configuration.

I would love to know what sort of lever this thing is, or what it's from:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/miniozi/7020689621/sizes/l/in/set-72157629679744041/

There also seems to be lots of combination dials from safes on this console:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/miniozi/6874601778/sizes/l/in/set-72157629679744041/
Most of them are the black-with-white numbers, but there is at least one white/silver with black numbers on that panel (link above) with the four meters and the air jet on it.

That box-like thing below the rim on the panel to the left in this photo:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/miniozi/7020718173/sizes/l/in/set-72157629679744041/
I'm guessing in there they've got the motor and some sort of teeter-totter mechanism that moves the column's innards up and down? And then there is that bass drum foot pedal in the foreground. And this little LED mini-spot light http://www.flickr.com/photos/miniozi/7020642273/sizes/l/in/set-72157629679744041/ is actually tucked in under the panel to the left and is aimed at that box-like thing. (You can see a little of it in that photo above with the red-handled pump.)
Here's a pretty good shot of the base of the column with what looks like a solid base, with a hole in it for the piston rod that moves the glass bubbly thing of the column:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/felgercarb/7020470787/sizes/l/in/set-72157629678942163/

There is that big silvery globe with hoses coming out of it sitting atop the column:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/miniozi/6874543472/sizes/l/in/set-72157629679744041/

In this photo that "FUEL" cap is sitting on top of that corrugated copper pipe (where the cell phone used to eject from on the 2005 console). And that "T" handled thing nearly centered in the photo is definitely a small bilge-type pump. And all the way on the left side, what is the "Diagnostic Panel" are several water shut-off (or spigot) handles. That squeeze-bulb thing on the edge of that panel just below the silver bowl thing is from a blood pressure cuff:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/miniozi/7020635969/sizes/l/in/set-72157629679744041/

I have no idea what this is, but it looks like one of those "EM Pods" they use on SyFy Channel's 'Ghost Hunters' (with a "Canon Plug" placed on the outside of it in about the 5 o'clock position):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/miniozi/7020641299/sizes/l/in/set-72157629679744041/

Also in a lot of those panel close-ups where you can see inside, behind the Gallifreyan-etched plexi, those lights are mostly green LED Christmas tree light strings, with some amber, and an occasional blue added here and there. The gold "finned"-looking things I believe are heat sinks from things like larger computer (processor-type) chips, and the larger ones could be from transmitter power amps. There are also a few more of those Canon Plugs inside there, as well as an odd gauge or two (as in here, under the plexi for the Diagnostic Panel:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/felgercarb/7020468623/sizes/l/in/set-72157629678942163/
And you can also get a better look at those spigot handles in this one. Also, between the console's ribs, you can see into the column's base again and what looks like the rod that raises and lowers the bubbly thing. It seems to be sitting in a ring at the end of an arm that may be part of that teeter-totter inside that box-like thing under that one panel?

One thing I did notice were the green-colored fluorescent tubes running "through" the cut-outs in the console frames: http://www.flickr.com/photos/miniozi/6874604376/sizes/l/in/set-72157629679744041/

Well, I'll stop there with analyzing this console because I'm starting to go madder than I already was! There are probably far more details to be plucked from these photos and I'll let a few others have a go at them. I hope my analysis was somewhat helpful with ID'ing some parts, and possibly figuring out how this column moves.

Dino.

[Kingpin]

I'm a little bit glad there wasn't any chance for me to see this in person... I'd love to see it in person, but that'd be a nightmare to photograph all the bits for reference.

Still, it shows just how good a replica the one at the Experience was, excluding size variance, I'd say it had 90% or more of the parts on the original.  I'm surprised how flexible the on-site staff were with it being played with, you'd think it'd be as much a case of "look but don't touch" as the props at the Millennium Centre.

[galacticprobe]

Maybe since Matt Smith is always breaking bits off here and there they thought, "Hey! Let's give the general public a go at this thing! Then whatever they might break off, we'll know where we have to reinforce it."

Maybe?

Wish I wasn't several thousand miles away from there. Still got some great photos to look at, though.

Dino.

[whovian-almighty]

I've found some parts on the Atom Accelorator! the blue & gold prongs/tips are dustcaps! they deffently are, they have 'teeth' like pattern on the ends but tell me what you think! 

[riftmaster]

Link to product? I cannot find the ones you are talking about.

[whovian-almighty]

here is the link to some gold ones which are the ones seen on the prop

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BULLET-STYLE-VALVE-CAPS-GOLD-ANODISED-UK-MADE-/320944324783?pt=UK_sportsleisure_cycling_bikeparts_SR&hash=item4ab9c5c0af

[eddyc]

I've found some parts on the Atom Accelorator! the blue & gold prongs/tips are dustcaps! they deffently are, they have 'teeth' like pattern on the ends but tell me what you think! 

Fantastic find, now I don't have make my own. Where did you did the great closeup photos of the Accelerator?

I wish I had that when I was designing mine... still I got darn close just using fuzzy screen caps.

[DoctorWho8]

Here's a pic showing the new web wall.

Bill "the Doctor" Rudloff

[galacticprobe]

There haven't been many extended scenes inside the TARDIS yet in this series, and certainly not any from this angle! I wonder when then this will show (or if I was distracted - which comes easy these days - and just missed it if it's been shown already).

I still wish they'd done something else rather than that web look. It grates on my arachnophobia!

Dino.

[DoctorWho8]

I think we'll see it more this coming episode.  I've seen some of the promotional stills, and there are more scenes in the TARDIS.
Bill "the Doctor" Rudloff

[galacticprobe]

I just noticed something while browsing through these 2010 console reference images (again). Under the perspex panels where they've got strings of LEDs running hither and thither, when the LEDs are actually lit up, in some of the photos there is a mix of blue and green LEDs, and in other photos of the same panels the blue LEDs seem to have been replaced by amber/orange ones.

The difference is obvious because the green LEDs are in the same places they were, but the LEDs that were blue are still in their same places, but are now amber. This is a bit confusing (and I know - I get confused easily and don't need any extra help). But does anyone know if this was part of the set design changes (such as the railings between Series 5 and 6), or is this just the difference between the actual filming set console (green and blue) and the DWE replica console (green and amber/orange)?

Dino.