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SPITFIRE

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Hello
I’m a professional Carpenter and have just been commissioned to build a Whittaker tardis . I have 3 questions maybe you guys can help me with so i can buy these
1. Lamp style
2.Paint colour code
3. what decade of Telephone 📞 as i will be adding this to the call box
Thanks
 
SPITFIRE said:
Hello
I’m a professional Carpenter and have just been commissioned to build a Whittaker tardis . I have 3 questions maybe you guys can help me with so i can buy these
1. Lamp style
2.Paint colour code
3. what decade of Telephone 📞 as i will be adding this to the call box
Thanks
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Well, two of those are somewhat easily answered!

1. The lamp is actually a modified Maritime lantern, which has largely been repainted and then altered to remove bits and pieces and change others.
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Here is the base lamp style, alongside the official prop version!

2. Technically, much like most of the props, there isn't a definitive colour match, as it's a heavily layered coat (of which another picture is needed lol!)
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This photo probably best shows the different shades and colours used throughout the paint job, however it's typically a blue-leaning teal if anything.

3. This one I actually do know exactly, and it's much the same as the rest of the show! The show uses a GPO 332 Bakerlite Telephone set, at least through my rigorous research regarding it.

Hope this helps, I know other people on the forums will also have some additional information especially, but hope this at least helps the ball get rolling!
 
Beee said:
Well, two of those are somewhat easily answered!

1. The lamp is actually a modified Maritime lantern, which has largely been repainted and then altered to remove bits and pieces and change others.
View attachment 771961View attachment 771960View attachment 771959
Here is the base lamp style, alongside the official prop version!

2. Technically, much like most of the props, there isn't a definitive colour match, as it's a heavily layered coat (of which another picture is needed lol!)
View attachment 771962
This photo probably best shows the different shades and colours used throughout the paint job, however it's typically a blue-leaning teal if anything.

3. This one I actually do know exactly, and it's much the same as the rest of the show! The show uses a GPO 332 Bakerlite Telephone set, at least through my rigorous research regarding it.

Hope this helps, I know other people on the forums will also have some additional information especially, but hope this at least helps the ball get rolling!
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Thank you
 
Aidan_Wilk!non said:
if your looking for the correct wood type to match the Whittaker boxes , the box was made from spruce and ply wood that was heavily torched

this is a colour code for which parts used the wood

the orange indicates what was spruce and the Green indicates what bit were ply woodView attachment 771963
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Thank you i’m going full traditional mortise and tenon frame and panel construction with glass windows
 
re: different shades of blue.

I have no useful advice about 21st century TARDIS props, but that has been my go-to "weathering" technique the past few years: I intentionally don't match the paint when I'm repainting and intentionally do a sloppy job, allowing the old colors to get through. The only hiccup on that is the most recent paint. I picked a color that turned out to lean towards red while the old coat was much more green and they did not work well at all together. In fact, I'd have never noticed the new paint was kind of purple and the old paint was kind of green--they just looked dark blue--until they were on the box together. Wound up having to go over everything to get a good solid, even coat. So maybe get one of those store paint cards and pick a light, medium, and dark in the same family to make sure they work together?

Oh, one other thing: At least for outdoor boxes it is very hard to go too dark for a blue. The chip in the store always looks plenty dark but then when you have a big box and the sunlight hits it it looks too light. Only once have I thought I went too dark and even then it was fine--and on some days I'll still catch myself wishing it was darker.
 
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