vortex's console

[vortexvp]

Back again... having posted about the (re)build of my police box... I've dug out the panels for the Tardis console and having constructed a new base I've assembled the old panels one last time before they have a refurb....

The three closest panels are actually glass back painted and are designed to be the main panels to face the Camera and are back lit. The other three panels are hardboard surface painted.

Some close ups:






Having been stored for some time and subject to getting damp some of the ink has run on some of the displays so for the forthcoming fan film I've decided to re-design things slightly...

I had thought of going silver with black panels, however having sent a friend these pics he said don't change the black which looks really sleek...

any thoughts out there?

[geminitimelord]

I agree with Purple on the console room. BRAVO!!  To be honest I like your version of a console much more than the current offerning. (no offense to anyone out there that might have had a part in the current design) If they could take your concept and put it in the existing set it would look like an advanced time space machine.

I find Steve very passable as a Doctor, Can't wait to see the final outcome.

One question, what program are you using for the effects? And is it PC based? I love the glowing eyes and the negative fade.

Scott

[exilea]

That thing looks like it could do some serious time hacking

[DoctorWho8]

Are those buttons magnetic strips or some sort of colored cardboard?  Looks like a Star Trek inspired piece (dare I say).
Bill Rudloff

[Rassilons Rod]

Or the early ninies 7th Doc DWM comic console

-Marc

[vortexvp]

The original console was buit in anout 1990 as the production was early 1991, this was a sort of Star Trek _TNG inspiration as well as anything else that took my fancy. Always wanted the Tardis to be a lot more Hi Tec than it ever has appeared on screen, so the glass panelling was the easiest was to achieve.

The old controls were back painted and enhanced with adhesive stickers and other bits and pieces of printed and borrowed graphs etc.

The new hexagons have been designed in their entirety on computer and each will be printed as one piece and stuck to the under surface for the glass panels and upper surface for the panels made of wood.

I've decided (At the moment) to stick with the black and rather than silver hexagons and going to try for black with a white border. we shall see how that looks.... soon

[the_temporal_mechanic]

Loving this Vortex!  Of course you know my affinity for Black and all things Star Trek.  Very sleek indeed.  What are your plans for the rotor?

[vortexvp]

To give you a taster of how the redesign is going:



This is the old panel (sorry the is is a bit dark- but it is supposed to be back lit). Controls on bottom row extreme left and right are stabilisers. In the Centre bottom row is the exterior door control which is conveniently surrounded by exterior atmospheric readouts.

Here is the new door control with atmospheric readouts

The hexagon has 7.5 cm sides just to give an idea of scale.

On the old panel middle row the left hand larger hexagon is  space time co-ordinates.... its new form
hexagon sides are 13cm

On the old panel middle row the right hand larger hexagon is dematerialisation controls... and in its new form



This one is a bit Star Trek having the three slide controls (very transporter), however Pertwee always used a combination of three levers to dematerialise so I feel I can get away with it


As for the central column (time rotor) its a tall acrylic tube a local builders merchant sells some great stuff meant for those tunnel green houses. The column will contain a rather nice futuristic lamp from Ikea which is all clear plastic, white halogen lights and silver rods, and is going to be enhanced with an amount of white festive lights which flash randomly. The inner workings of the column will  not in reality move, however with a bit of post production trickery we are intending to add a movement to it.

Just in case you missed the pictures in the console room thread, the finished console is designed to be added via chromakey to this...

[dalethetimelord]

Wow!!!

VERY impressive.  Love what you've done to the toy console room too; but please stop mentioing the S**r T**k words as it's sacrilege and Lord Rassilon will twot you one with a shovel or somethng.

[Scarfwearer]

...Lord Rassilon will twot you one with a shovel or somethng.

Time Scoop, I should think .

Crispin

[the_temporal_mechanic]

Sorry bout that... Those two words just roll off the tongue. 

[Rassilons Rod]

Sorry bout that... Those two words just roll off the tongue. 

DAMN IT, I am Rassilons Rod and I like that show!

[vortexvp]

Didn't realise that mentioning the American series was akin to fornicating infront of your grandparents

[karsthotep]

Yikes.....

well nice console at any rate,  got any pictures of it actually backlit?

Karst

[Rassilons Rod]

Didn't realise that mentioning the American series was akin to fornicating with yourself infront of your grandparents

Fixed that for you