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Started by Oor Wullie, Apr 06, 2022, 09:36 pm

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Oor Wullie

OK, it took a few tries and retries but I've passed the Gallifreyan photo upload test, whew! I noticed some wanted to post sideways so I edited them by flipping them around and back to upright, then loaded them to success.

Oor Wullie

My worksite. AdjustableE5B7A207-9459-4134-AA8E-71493CD4A4E3.jpeg143202A7-D03F-4B35-9C12-AE57EBA9166A.jpeg height sawhorses save the back when marking up and sawing, my wood stock so far and the table saw yet to finish assembling.

Oor Wullie

Last photo today, the foundation pavers to get a sense of size. It won't be landing here however.36892C63-672E-4206-B0AB-2A1AF2E58ECB.jpeg

Oor Wullie

OK, just one more. These are the two-way opening panel hinges I've ordered.FC7EEC32-AAB7-4E77-907F-4E021176C332.jpeg

Oor Wullie

Legend of the Sea Devils really galvanised my desire to have two doors opening out or in.EC116918-515D-49CA-A72A-BA55C269BB9C.jpeg

fivefingeredstyre

Quote from: Oor Wullie on Apr 29, 2022, 12:50 amLast photo today, the foundation pavers to get a sense of size. It won't be landing here however.36892C63-672E-4206-B0AB-2A1AF2E58ECB.jpeg
This takes me back, its not until you layout the footprint that you get a sense of just how large a project your build is going to be!

Oor Wullie

Wanted to show you folks my very rough model to show how the left and rear wall mirrors will make it bigger inside. Obviously really rough but I wanted to see how a scaled down console would look mid-room.78376EB1-A7BD-4D60-A6E8-AD4C6A26AB6C.jpeg

Jam Jar Lurker

I can't wait to see it.

The police box on Buchanan Street in Glasgow used to be lined with mirrors and lights. You opened the phone panel to see inside. Very convincing and impressive.

Francïs
"Have courage, and be kind... Where there is kindness, there is goodness. And where there is goodness, there is magic."

Oor Wullie

Getting ready to order some window panes and found this polycarbonate hammered sheet at Weprofab.com. Looks like the real deal to me though a nice clear blue in panel 5 would clinch it

Volpone

Google for "blue window film."  It was impossible to find amber fog lamps for the A-Team van but there was a company that makes film to cover automotive lights.  Don't remember who I got mine from, but I see some results for blue window film that look promising.  Might be a little light, I'm not sure. 

Personally, I came from a theater background and lived in a reasonably big city with an artsy side so I figured I'd just find a lighting supply store and buy some blue "gels" used for theater lighting.  No luck at all.  Of all things, I ultimately wound up finding a spiral bound notebook that had blue plastic covers.  That's what Russell wound up doing to, IIRC.  Great minds, necessity is the mother of invention, etc. 
"My dear Litefoot, I've got a lantern and a pair of waders, and possibly the most fearsome piece of hand artillery in all England. What could possibly go wrong?"
-The Doctor.

Oor Wullie

Hi Volpone. I wrote to Weprofab and asked if they had a catalog of all their acrylic choices (and, now, polycarbonate) and they wrote back and said just tell is what you want and we will help. Frustrating reply but perhaps, conversely, promising. They have a nice deep tone of transparent blue but I'll have to find it again since their website rambles in all directions. I read that the real original boxes had clear hammered in all but pane 5, which was blue. I kinda don't like the 1-3 and 5 panes being dark to form a T. Reminds me of superhero letter costume logos. I hope Who doesn't do that to remind us T for TARDIS.

I think Weprofab will even fuse  the blue pane into the hammered  ones. I'm still working on measurement before I ask.

Oor Wullie

Their blue lucite. Such rich colour.C60E6003-CD00-4819-A647-5082EF0B4E3F.jpeg

Volpone

Quote from: Oor Wullie on May 01, 2022, 07:05 pm...I kinda don't like the 1-3 and 5 panes being dark to form a T. Reminds me of superhero letter costume logos. I hope Who doesn't do that to remind us T for TARDIS. ...
"It's not a 'T'.  It's the Gallifreyan symbol for 'hope'." ;)
"My dear Litefoot, I've got a lantern and a pair of waders, and possibly the most fearsome piece of hand artillery in all England. What could possibly go wrong?"
-The Doctor.

Oor Wullie

Creative endeavours can be laden with blocks. One for me was getting the table saw together and operative. Got it done yesterday and happy with that. Worth reading reviews from other buyers on the page of the shop you got it from. This is a Black and Decker low-end saw so you'd still expect some brand quality. But I'll have to check the square of the  cutting fence and the angle of the blade by magnetic inclinometer. Never trust the gauges. I even found major typos in the instructions.

So I'll start this week getting my column and base wood cut and assembled. The blade only takes a 80 mm piece of wood and the base posts are 90 but nothing a double cut on my drop saw can't manage for the 45 degree joins.

Off to town for that one sheet of 12 mm ply for the door thickness increase to match the hinges, more glue and screws and a check-in at the signmakers to see their price on opal acrylic to back my hollow letter sign decals.

Next mental hurdle is the door and wall plunge cuts of the squares and then routering those to angle. I wrote to Ace Cosplay who built a nice TARDIS  on youtube with her Dad a few years ago. Noticed that he routered his rails and stiles with the back sheet already on. Couldn't figure that out, as the bearing would still leave a right angle at the bottom. They wrote back saying he used a 1/4 inch bit so I guess that limits the height of the bearing.

I've arrived at the notion that most people seeing my finished box will be only minimally aware of the show so whatever I know to be shortcuts won't be evident to anyone but me. I'm gonna enjoy it for it's 95% accuracy and that's even through the filter of aspie/OCD obsession. Always curious if there are other out aspies here. What we're doing is pretty fringe hobby work.

russellsuthern

The windows do make a T shape when lit, but it doesn't have anything to do with it being a T for TARDIS, but more of a nod to the arrangement of glass panels in the original Police Boxes. (Although they still have it wrong!)

A trawl through some build diaries will show that some TARDIS builders have an incredible eye for detail, & make their builds amazingly accurate.

Others, such as myself are happy to live with a few differences as long as the overall look is pretty accurate.

Some a are hybrid boxes, pulling in different features from different boxes.

A few are completely original & unique designs.

They are all TARDISes & I love them all!

Looking forward to seeing yours completed.

Regards,

Russell