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Started by veegsredds, Mar 03, 2022, 07:38 pm

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veegsredds

Hi all!
This is my first post on TARDIS Builders :-D

I'm hoping to work on a full size outdoor TARDIS next year (coincides with the show's 60th - very cool!), but I wasn't sure which one. I thought the 1980 box looked awesome...but I wasn't fond of the top sign font or the color. I'm hugely nostalgic for the 2010 box...but it is slightly plain (and the windows are the wrong size!!!). So what I went for my v1 is a custom design, essentially a hybrid of the 1980 box and the 2010 box with some tweaked details to make it more "me".

I used 1980 plans from this site (particularly https://tardisbuilders.com/index.php?topic=7902.0), mostly Lespaceplie's wonderful PDF. I tweaked some of the proportions that I thought could use some improvement or that I couldn't find from any of the plans.

For the color, I went 2010 box. The door sign is a combination of the McCoy door sign and either the 2005 or 2010 door sign, not sure which...the PDFs are also elsewhere on this site. The font on the top signs is Avenir LT, a gorgeous alternative to the current, long-lived one in the series (not that it's bad!)

police pub box.PNG

angled.PNG

I didn't make the 2010 lamp myself, nor the handles or the Yale lock. Here's my sources for those parts that I really would have no idea how to make:

Handles: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/door-handles-c56b06bc3b174823b12d9bfcc3598723
Lock: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2368177
Lamp: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4411426/files

Overall, I'm pretty proud of my twist on the old girl! Any thoughts? Suggestions? Do you all think this is a design worth building? I'd almost say this is my favorite TARDIS, but then again, it's entirely tailor-made to my personal liking by the person who knows me the most, so of course it is.

See you all around,
Veegs
B-)

Oh, finally, image links in case they fail to embed. New here.
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/434658630755811330/949027723664322560/police_pub_box.PNG
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/434658630755811330/949027735290933289/angled.PNG

veegsredds