little comparaison betwin the series5 tardis(dubed Heroprop D) and the series 10 one (Hero prop F for this 3d model, but there was a G model used in tandem, wich has a lock placement that differse a bit, being more down to the corner of the rectangular recessed panel).
over the years, the doors and pannel sides got squished a bit getting the boxes slimer and slimer over the many constructions. The Capaldi tardii are thiner then the earlier moffat era tardii. The base got even more thicker (about 2cm). the paint has changed a couple of times, from a transparent (apprently a bit glitered, but not confirmed (quick edit, metal flakes sounds more accurate. For sure, the D prop lamp was at list looking "candy", wich means it as been painted metalic silver and toped with the same color of transparent blue. Wich give a deeper finish to it, kinda like those spectraflame vintage hotwheels) wood protection mid blue paint to a flat opac lighter blue that is a bit more cyany.
the series 5 lamp is made of a anchor brass lamp with the top part of a earlier guardman candel lantern(same model as used on the 3 RTD hero props era. reconisable by the thiner exterior lower ridge and the big cheminée cap but the "niple" part was kept this time) this lanterne can be opened btw.
from the second half of series6 onward (fitted on the brand new tardis E prop) the lamp construction sources changed for a modified exterior metal lamp on wich 4 of the 8 protection cage rodes have been plucked topped with a more recent guardman candel lanter round top (reconisable from it's thicker base, biger lower ridge and the thiner cheminée cap.) i also need to do more research, but some of the lamps might even just be made out of a resin casting of the fresnel part, mounted on some metal house cheminée/rain pipes. i can't confirm right now.
I will eventualy do the later moffat tardii. At list make some interchangeable parts to make the tardis look more accurate to diffrent seasons.
But i gotta be honnest, I personnaly don't like the box look after series 6b as much as I like the series 5 D prop or even all the RTD's ones. The lamp got more flimsy looking, wich isn't just a look actualy, it was realy bloody frigile, even more the the RTD lantern construction. It got knoked all the time during production, wich is the reason it's size and proportions change so much during the episodes because of replacement and quick fixes. I'm also a fond of that detailed wood grain effect earlier box had. Despite being inacurate to the real life met boxes it was, it's a good look on the RTD's, and it got realy embrassed ont the D prop to the paroxisme. The later flat blue just makes it looks cheap by how clean and uniform it was. Wich enfacise how beaten it got during production and brings out more the "movie props aspect" and fragile look instead of feeling more real and grounded, like previous boxes did. And i'm glade the H,I and J boxes (Whittaker's boxes) got back to a more intentionnal weathered patched look, because dings and neglects of the productions doesnt look out of place, can be more easily hiden and repared and it even adds up character and realisme to them.
Also, I like the sized tardis C and D got. Because it feels more like what the tardis is suposed to be in apparance. A basic and small street coner police officer's minimal office where a human being can spend a day working, looking for something to happen without it feeling too smal to fit in. Thiner tardii, with a poor choice of paint work added to that cheap prop Aestetic. Wich is a Shame, because it is absolutly not a cheap prop, it's expensive and detailed, but it suffer from comparaison to the previous and next boxes.
So yeah, little opinion piece here I guess. Maybe justification for me taking a while to make the capaldi tardis in the futur. I like this doctor and the interior, the exterior is a nice desing over all, but compared to the others, it's my list favourit new who box. Wich i still think is funny, compared to how little diffrenced there are betwin all of them, when i come to think about it (and compared to the classic show), yet how off it looks to me. It won't probably grew on me for a long time, but i don't hate it, so i will surly make one anyway at some point.... way sooner then i'll propably make the Newberry prop X)
