New Series Tardis sign

Primrodo

Sr Member
hey guys!

Thought I would share this with you all!

I am working on a few Doctor Who related projects, but most are having other skilled people make me stuff and I thought to share one thing I did myself.

I wanted to make a close replica of the TARDIS "Pull To Open" sign based on the newest series of DW, and it looks something like:

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So I started researching, and the people that know me well on here know I do alot of research :)

First thing I found out, surprising was that the sign was not white and that it is simply a lighting trick and that it is actually silver!

The edges were roughly weathered with a dremel exposing the bare metal beneath and then the letters applied.

So I bought a galvinized steel sign from a local fabricationplace here that was able to cut it to my exact measurements and pre drill the holes, was pretty sweet!

So I started by spraypainting the silver in my broken BBQ-now-paintQ.

Then I took a blown up picture and roughly dremeled the weathering detail.

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As you can see in the next couple pictures the white look really is apparent with the camera and no flash:

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And then as a perk at my work, we do vinyl artwork tehre, so I scaled and matched my stuff to the sign and did the artwork myself, using a peer's artwork as a base, then cut it out and applied it to the sign.

And I must say, I was pretty impressed!

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What do you guys think?
 
I think its beautiful, great job on that, I need to get a metal version to replace my white one. Very nice..how much to make me one ;).

Karst
 
Thanks guys!

Karsten, I would have no problem making you one if you like, I would just need to cost out the vinyl and the metal sign itself to your dimentions. PM me what you need and I can let you know :)
 
bumping up an old thread... anyone know what typefaces those are on the sign? i'm going to be doing a not-quite 1:1 scale partial tardis soon (i'll post up a thread with details when i get started). i'd like to make a nice looking sign for it.

thanks!
 
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