Doctorin' the Tardis

[Supercollider]

Inspired by Anvevilgiraffe, I've been making some Doctor Who stuff lately.

This is a Tardis made from a Chessex dice box (resized somewhat).  Strips of plasticard, Fimo for the roof.  Still have to add the sign on the front and a couple of other details...



With a (slightly shiny) figure (curse that varnish!), for scale...



Here is a Tardis console I made from the 'battle spinner' you get with the Micro Universe figures.  Loads of sections of little bits and bobs, glued all over the place, willy-nilly.  I reckoned as long as it looked the part, job done



A load of Micro Universe Judoon - I made the leader's head from green stuff, as the only way to get one was to buy one with a spaceship; which I didn't want.  I tried to vary the stock pose of the Judoon as much as possible.



Daleks (Micro Universe, re-based) on the warpath - I repainted quite a few of them, as the standard 'gold dalek' looked a bit flat.  Used brass, gold, bronze, to give them a richer look.  I also painted one dalek silver/black, and another gold/black.  I know they're from an earlier series, but they are time travellers?



I've also got a ton of doctored Micro Universe Cybermen, various assistants (K-9 pictured) and some 'Future UNIT' (using E4m plastic sci-fi troopers painted with red helmets)... But my camera is playing up

We've had some fun battles!

[anevilgiraffe]

  superb.... all excellent stuff, the rhino head looks great, I thought that was a Hasslefree head at first.... the detail on the TARDIS is great, doing any walls for your console? you'd do the inner door justice if that's what you've done with a dice box!

and what you've done with that spinner is excellent... inspired by me? surpassed me more bloody like...  you should post this on Frothers, Rev Nice may just explode when he sees that....

have no idea how to do that to my console... any tips?

[revford]

Good stuff!  A huge platoon of Judoon.

The TARDIS console looks very cool, I've got one of those spinners but not done anything with it yet.  I may have to steal that idea.

[anevilgiraffe]

ooo, I've just noticed the legs you've extended down... more pics of the console please!

[Supercollider]

Thanks for the nice comments

The spinner was a bit fiddly, but worth the effort.

I cut lots of thin sections of plastic lolly sticks (tubes), old sprue, and sections of anything else that would good, and stuck them all over the place.  The computer is made from a bit of folded plasticard, with a scored piece stuck on for the keyboard - a nice thin wash to get into the keys between the grooves

The legs of the console are the ridges from the bottom half of the spinner, dremelled up, shaped (flattened) at the top, then glued to the underside of the top half.

What you can't see very clearly in the pic; there are a couple of ribbed bottle tops (one smaller, deeper one inside poking out of the bottom of a wider shallower one) sitting in between the console legs (the legs are also glued to the sides of this).  The deeper bottle top is the same height as the legs.

As I say - fiddly, but it only took a couple of hours to make, once I'd planned what to do.

I've been thinking about doing some walls and doors for the interior - that's the next project! 

[Malamute]

Excellent stuff

[Supercollider]

Here's a side view of the console - just managed to take one pic before the camera conked out :/



I'm tempted to tidy it up a bit now (never looked at it from such a low, close angle once I'd painted it)  

Should give you the general idea though?

[Tom Reed]

Well i think it looks smashing!
As does the rest of your stuff.
It's really inspiring.

[anevilgiraffe]

Here's a side view of the console - just managed to take one pic before the camera conked out :/



I'm tempted to tidy it up a bit now (never looked at it from such a low, close angle once I'd painted it)  

Should give you the general idea though?

that is nicely done... I need to get sticking....

good use of the bottle tops, they have a very nice look to them...

you seem to eat a lot of pizza's judging from the polystyrene 

[Backyardpatrol]

That Tardis Scratchbuild is great, ever think about writing a tutorial?

[JollyBob]

Very cool, that Juddoon head is great!

[twrchtrwyth]

Excellent.

[marrony]

Really really well done!

[Pappa Midnight]

Excellent Stuff!

The scratchbuilt head is superb...as is the Tardis...and the Console.....

A pleasure to see, thanks for posting!!!

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[AKULA]

Brilliant!

Am painting some Daleks for my kids at the moment, and better make sure they don't see this (along with 99.9% of the stuff i read on Frothers!?!?)