'Remodelled the TARDIS and so far it's looking good. I'll need to remodel the windows though as a technical issue arose when I attempted to texture the model over in Substance Painter

This turned out really well, great work on 3d printing this and your paintwork is exceptional. Keep up the good work:

PB1 July 1968

Marker is previous April 1951 position:




from John Bunker's book, page 71, "By 1933 there were five boxes on the outskirts of the Ipswich County Borough Police area."


found 3 Police Telephone Posts:

52.081922, 1.166648


P T P Westerfield Junction / Mill Farm ( North of Ipswich )

52.077279, 1.11548

P T P Lovetofts Drive / Kerry Avenue

52.040128, 1.14503

Cardif Avenue / Halifax Road

Locations of boxes:

westbourne 52.07115, 1.13315


52.05797,1.13523  London rd / Yarmouth rd april 1951

52.05788,1.13472  London rd / Yarmouth rd july 1968


52.06836,1.14064 sherrington rd ( pool) concrete ?

woodbridge road east 52.06093,1.19699


felixtow rd / bixley rd 52.04229, 1.19767

Here's another picture of the structure near the pool that I'm interested in (nabbed from YouTube):





This building is 100% not part of the swimming pool complex. It's just... there, on it's own. It matches the location on dr hue's map for a police box, and on the map it's clearly a larger square labelled PCB compared to the wooden boxes. The road it stood on no longer exists, and is now a footpath, but maybe it was repurposed by the council as a storage facility for the pool? I don't think it's anything like public toilets, as according to the map they were located further to the right of this picture, nearer to the entrace of the pool complex.

In looking for wooden box locations I have overlooked the possibility of a brick built police box, thinking that all the boxes would have been the wooden type B309's made by Boulton and Paul of Norwich. It's clearly graffiti'd to Hell, but warrants further investigation. When I get a chance I'll head out there and take some pictures from the ground.

Quote from: dr hue on Jan 06, 2025, 02:11 pmAttached overlay of 1950s map of Box 1:

It doesn't seem to match up to colour photo? Box shown North East should it be North West ?

It should definitely be North West, so either the map is incorrect or the box was relocated at some point. As the map is from 1950 and the photos are from the 1960's I'm going to go with relocated.

That set construction model is very enlightening.  I've done some theater and of course lived in the Real World (most of the time), but other than seeing some TV sets on a tour of the Warner Brothers studios decades  ago, I don't have experience with TV sets.  It's neat, how one side is open--the same side--on the sets.  They don't need to spend money on a wall that would actually just get in the way and the way it's built it's fast and easy to move the camera to the next scene.  I assume that one corner cubby just gets redressed as a bedroom or a hallway or whatever they need for 90% of the shots of the TARDIS interior.  Do your dialog shot and have the actors walk off out of frame down the "corridor," then set up and have them walk into frame with the set they just left now being the location they just got to.

Attached overlay of 1950s map of Box 1:

It doesn't seem to match up to colour photo? Box shown North East should it be North West ?

Your reasoning is sound 😊

And your renders are looking fantastic 😊

Some precision piloting by the Master...


The lighting's a bit bright, and there's a massive lack of ivy, but it's getting there.

Quote from: Rassilons Rod on Jan 05, 2025, 11:36 amPersonally I would be tempted to have the outer doors butt up to the interior doors or just generally closer.

It could work with a few different arrangments, but my personal view is that there really should be a clear transition zone between exterior and interior doors, serving two purposes, both based on the tendency of TARDIS occupants to charge in at great speed when being chased. 

Firstly, there needs to be time for the interior doors to open, after the exterior doors are unlocked, or there are going to be pile-ups.

Secondly (and more speculatively), it seems like there needs to be a dimensional transition zone between exterior dimensions and interior, that is bigger than the depth of a human body to avoid differential stretching of the body, which would be at best disorienting/nauseating, and at worst, harmful.

QuoteBut I have to say that seeing the  roundek wall in there is VERY satisfying 😊😊

Regardless of my personal thoughts, I was most steered by this model, which has a standard 1800 roundel wall beyond the interior doors:



I've made these walls black to match the occasional glimpses seen of the antechamber and made them "sunken" roundels to match the interior doors while also being a hark back to earlier TARDISs - as if the antechamber is less open to personalization by the Dr, being not the plasmic shell and not the main interior.

Anyway, here's a couple more renders, with both of the external doors open, to allow more light in.