Final TARDIS Rotor/Whirligig Symbols

[the doctor who2]

TO SEE THE FINAL SYMBOLS, PLEASE SKIP TO PAGE 11
EVERYTHING BEFORE IS JUST DESIGN DEVELOPMENT

Right, I've decided to take on the task of recreating the logos that appear on the Spinning section of the Time Rotor in the new TARDIS.
I first started with getting as many resource images as i could to work out how many symbols there are and whether all the symbols are visible in the episodes.





















And then worked out there are 18 sides to each of the 3 rims each with a repeating pattern of symbols, which makes things so much easier.





and cut out each of the visible symbols so i could finally work out each symbol



Here i have included four of the symbols i have recreated but i have created all 18 symbols but they all need another going over and some tweeks being made to finish them off which ill post soon. These aren't the final symbols!

[DoctorWho8]

Kudos to you for figuring out this madness!
Bill "the Doctor" Rudloff

[Kingpin]

Splendid work, that's saved me all that hassle then.



I feel your pain though, the panel with all those twist handles has Gallifreyan text on it, which was rather fun to work with when drafting up the plan drawing for that console panel.

[galacticprobe]

I absolutely agree with everything said so far! Magnificent work and one heck of a painstaking job! I am certainly looking forward to the final product. The ceiling in my den needs a centerpiece. (It will be small, maybe 2 feet in diameter at most, only one tier made from poster-board, and it won't move... that whole spinning thing and vertigo issues . But will look really cool! )

Dino.

[the doctor who2]

Kudos to you for figuring out this madness!
Bill "the Doctor" Rudloff

Haha, ye madness is the right word. I always start things that i wish i hadn't. But i must admit i enjoy doing this sort of thing its a challenge.

Splendid work, that's saved me all that hassle then.
I feel your pain though, the panel with all those twist handles has Gallifreyan text on it, which was rather fun to work with when drafting up the plan drawing for that console panel.

Thanks Kingpin, knew it would come in handy for some people. I'd forgotten about the text on the console, i think the door frame design will be my next challenge.

I absolutely agree with everything said so far! Magnificent work and one heck of a painstaking job! I am certainly looking forward to the final product. The ceiling in my den needs a centerpiece.
Dino.

Thanks Galacticprobe, its taking up quite a bit of time, but i just do it while the tvs on so don't notice how painstaking it is. I'm putting all my rough ones up now, but i think all of them to need a few things sorting on them, also they are really high res with transparent backgrounds. so everyone can use them

Here are 4 more of the symbols one of these has to be the most complex but i think i have it about spot on;

[galacticprobe]

These are brilliant: absolutely brilliant! (At the risk of sounding over-eager... Keep 'em comin'!)

Dino.

[the doctor who2]

These are brilliant: absolutely brilliant! (At the risk of sounding over-eager... Keep 'em comin'!)Dino.

Thanks Dino.

Sorry for the delay but here 4 more gallifreyan symbols, again none of these are completely finished.
Started to find these last few hard to recreate simply due to the lack of reference images for that side of the spinning section. All the same logos are repeated.









Some more will be posted very soon

[galacticprobe]

You know, I've got to say that anytime a new console and room are introduced, it usually takes me into the second series with that console to get used to it, and a little longer to actually start liking it. But between Kingpin's screen grabs and this great effort to decipher the order of those symbols on that whirligig, I'm already starting to like this one! (Mind you, the Hartnell and the 2005 console are still tied for my favorite, but I am starting to like this 2013 version in less time than it took me to start liking the 2010 version.)

Once again, I say brilliant job, the doctor who2!

Dino.

[the doctor who2]

You know, I've got to say that anytime a new console and room are introduced, it usually takes me into the second series with that console to get used to it, and a little longer to actually start liking it. But between Kingpin's screen grabs and this great effort to decipher the order of those symbols on that whirligig, I'm already starting to like this one! (Mind you, the Hartnell and the 2005 console are still tied for my favorite, but I am starting to like this 2013 version in less time than it took me to start liking the 2010 version.)
Once again, I say brilliant job, the doctor who2!
Dino.

Thanks Dino, I find it does take a few episodes to get used to a console and its surrounding. But i found i liked this console room straight away.

Sorry about the wait for these, been very busy with work haven't stopped. Here is three more symbol now it starts to get harder as like i said before there aren't that many pictures of the other side.
Ill try post the last three as soon as.

[galacticprobe]

Great job on these latest three symbols!

Since the symbols seem to be in the same order and pattern on all three tiers, if you can't see the "far" side of the tiers, you could try looking for an easy-to-spot symbol on any of the tiers and see what the other symbols are around it. You might be able to piece the final symbols in that way.

Thoughts?

Dino.

[the doctor who2]

Great job on these latest three symbols!
Since the symbols seem to be in the same order and pattern on all three tiers, if you can't see the "far" side of the tiers, you could try looking for an easy-to-spot symbol on any of the tiers and see what the other symbols are around it. You might be able to piece the final symbols in that way.
Thoughts?
Dino.

Thanks Dino! You'd have thought that, but i got screencaps from every time the console is on screen and i'm struggling with just 1 Symbol, i can't find a decent shot anywhere, i've had to guess most of it. Which is a bit of a pain. We always end up seeing the same symbols in most shots of the top of the spinning rotor. I will be doing a bit more digging but at the moment it is hard to find.

[slidin_sidewayz]

As anyone who knows of me here is aware, I try not to stick my 5 cents worth in if I can avoid it. 
If it's not too know-it-all like, I modified one of the symbols to what I could make out from the source pic. It's not easy, as you say, seeing as there's very few resources, but I hope it's a little closer to what we're wanting.

[galacticprobe]

Wow, slidin'! Good eyes! Now that you mention it, I toggled back and forth between your modified image and the source image and the doctor who2's image, and you're right; it did need a bit of tweaking. In fact, I went back and forth several times, enlarging the source image as much as I dared without it pixelating and it looks like that one symbol still needs a little more tweaking. There are more fine lines and small circles in it that at first (or fifth!) glance. (I might even try my hand at this one.)

If only we could get a good look at it head-on.

Dino.

[the doctor who2]

As anyone who knows of me here is aware, I try not to stick my 5 cents worth in if I can avoid it. 
If it's not too know-it-all like, I modified one of the symbols to what I could make out from the source pic. It's not easy, as you say, seeing as there's very few resources, but I hope it's a little closer to what we're wanting.

Brilliant slidin_sidewayz, i welcome any help with tweaking these symbols. If there are any other symbols that need tweaking let me know. i do realise they all need bits adding and removing from them and i plan on doing these soon, hopefully this small break from these will refresh me eyes so i can see things i missed the first time.

Its a shame the BBC website hasn't added production artwork for this piece of the console. Would make things easier

[galacticprobe]

This might help. I've lightened the source image (and sharpened it a little) to help being out more details. It does bring out a few of the thinner lines and circles in it.



Dino.