Dave's Newberry Build

[lorisarvendu]

Having made a standard Police Box, followed by a
red Mile End box, I thought I'd go for a BBC prop next.  
Loosely based on the Newberry box, this one's going
to have a very shallow (almost flat) roof.  

I've made it slightly bigger so it's in scale with my lad's
old model Dalek (which can be seen here, keeping an
eye on progress so far).

[avadh]

You have a really nice collection of tardises and you have built them beautifully. The detailing is really good too on all of them.

[tardis81]

very nice models i think  iam inspired to build a pertwee or hartnell box

[purpleblancmange]

An excellent start there to your latest model, but wearing my Admin hat - guess what I'm going to say next...

Please could you either thumbnail the image or resize it?  Just so that it doesn't throw the board out of whack.  Also, some folk are still on good ol' dial up and this image while take an age to load for them.

[Rassilons Rod]

Oooh! A Newbury box! Nice to see one of these on the cards, I don't think I've seen a replica
of this version just yet, in any scale...

And judging by your other builds this one will be awesome too, and what a great start!

-Marc

[chriskingbees]

"My lad's dalek"? Whom are you trying to kid?
Lovely modelcraft as always Dave
KB

[lorisarvendu]

"My lad's dalek"? Whom are you trying to kid?
Lovely modelcraft as always Dave
KB

Sussed!  No, believe it or not it actually is Andrew's.  (However we have two 5" Radio Controlled ones, and they're mine all mine!!)

Have just finished the signs.  I'm not looking forward to painting it, as the material I've used is 2mm thick mounting card (from an art shop), and since I'm planning on using a matt acrylic blue, I'm concerned that the card may be too absorbant and start warping (and not in a futuristic space-travel kind of way).

Maybe I need to "seal" it with some kind of undercoat or varnish first...

Shame I can't go into business doing these, because I've already had two requests from friends.

[zbigniev hamson]

In my (very limited) experience, if you paint on a coat of varnish, undercoat or sealer, the card (or wood) will just absorb that the same as it would paint. The only difference is that it will THEN leave a nice surface to paint on and give you a nice finish after that. But I don't think you can really stop the material absorbing the first thing you put on it. Maybe I'm wrong though.

[Sorvan]

If you spray on some primer in several light coats (instead of one heavy coat), it should create a surface which would prevent your paint from soaking into the paper card.  I find the real trick is to not spray too much at once.  Many times I've sprayed a little and thought "oh, I can spray more without causing any problems" and then sprayed too much - instead of waiting for the first coat to dry and then spray more.

Colin

[lorisarvendu]

Well, more or less completed model.  Just need the door handle and varnishing.


Looks better when photographed without flash.

[Doctor Iz]

Wow!  That looks great.  Nice colour too!
Cheers,
Jon~

[lorisarvendu]

Wow!  That looks great.  Nice colour too!
Cheers,
Jon~

Thanks!  Tamiya Acrylic "Flat Blue XF-8". To my eyes the perfect colour for a shabby Pertwee-era box.

Am I the only person who thinks of the Troughton era as having a grey TARDIS?  Even though I know that's because it was B&W, I still imagine the box would be grey in real life.

[DoctorWho8]

It was a very dark blue, nearly black sh.
Bill Rudloff

[lorisarvendu]

I'm done!!  

Matt Varnished & the door-handle put on (once more a piece of bent aerial coax).  Although I used a set of "Newbery box" plans, I think I've diverged a little bit, but then I think it's always best to be satisfied rather than strictly accurate, and I'm very satisfied with this!  



If I had a full-sized one...


The natural outside light shows the paint colour as it more or less is.  I think Tamiya ought to rename this "TARDIS Blue"  


If you look closely you should be able to see that there is a sort of "pebbly" texture to the windows.  I used a slice of textured PVC from a children's plastic stationery wallet.  59p from Wilkos.


The shallow-pitched roof was the most difficult part of the whole build.  Once more the lamp is part of a transparent fibre-tip pen lid, the struts are cotton-buds, and the dome is a plastic screw cover.

[purpleblancmange]

...I'm very satisfied with this! 

And so you should be, it's a neat build and looks great next to that Dalek.

If I would make one suggestion, it would be this; for obvious joins, have you considered using a filler?  Even on cardboard, car body filler works a treat, as does Polyfiller... the latter is terribly easy to sand smooth and if you apply it while it's not too wet, it won't adversely affect the building materials.

Still, I like the model (and your others too) - now all we need is a shot of them all lined up together.