Well, the time is upon me. I made the jump and purchased most of the lumber to start my build. this should get me up to the sign line. I know I want to control my TARDIS with a raspberry Pi as far as lights and sound goes. Has anyone done this before? if so any pointers?

You should be proud of the amount of life you got out of that. My plywood roof started to delaminate after 1 winter!

The door sign in various stages of framing:






What did I do wrong here?

• I should have cut a rebate instead of a groove for the sign. Cutting a groove meant I had to glue 3 sides together, then paint before slotting the sign in and gluing the 4th side on
• Gluing the sign in also means I'll have to cut the frame extremely carefully to get it out if I need to redo it
• This is the first time I've done this kind of frame and I widened the groove in the wrong direction on 2 sides

You live and learn. I'll do it better next time.

The old Tardis, and a load of other stuff, on its final journey to the tip.


Thinking about it, I should have put the 2 better walls and the roof on Freecycle. Someone may have been able to clean them up and use them in a child's playroom or something. Too late now.

A couple of pics of the finished cloister room:



"Finished" here means all the walls and props are in place, but obviously it's far from being the dimly lit, scuffed cloister room from the screen. I'll do some paving for the floor, but then move on to adding all the corridors around the room, before coming back to sort out the textures and lighting.

Jesus, that looks like a lot of work to day!

But that first shot (I'm sure I've said this about similar photos you have posted) is giving me serious The Highlanders vibes

A quick check that things are looking OK in the rendered 3D view.
Here's the stone bench and one of the plant troughs:


And here's the scene it's roughly matched to:


I'm not sure the dimensions are quite right for the bench, but it's close enough for the moment. In the same way, it has carvings of leaves on it, but I'll only come back and attempt that once the whole room is assembled.

And if anyone is wondering if I'll be doing all the dangling ivy - definitely not! The way I see it, with three new companions, the fifth Dr got them pulling down ivy and cleaning up the cloister room generally, so mine will be a lot cleaner.

Creating the weird plant pots that are embedded into the walls in the cloister room:



Despite the blurry source image, I think the model captures the effect.

A couple of "stonehenges" made from the cloister room walls.



There are two versions because I've been trying to decide if translucent roundels should be visible from both sides of a wall. This is an issue they didn't have to deal with in the show as you never got to see both sides, but you will in this. I think I'm leaning towards them not being visible on both sides in the cloister room walls, because they are thicker than a typical wall.

Poor old thing!!

 Hope you get her all fixed up again.

 Andrew