TARDIS 6

Well this has been done since late August. But as this year comes to a close I realized there are some finished projects that I never posted about the end product. One of them being my Tardis! No doubt many followers of the +Doctor Who page will like to swing by. If anyone wants any plans let me know and I'll do my best to get what I mocked up online.

There isn't much to say about it. So instead I'll post some beautiful pictures for you all to enjoy!

So with out any other pomp, the TARDIS. (You're welcome +Lauren Olipra for finally posting these)

Possibly my favorite

Love that you can see a glimpse of the interior

Anyone want a rockin' banner?

From the Archives of Childhood

I was going through some old spiral notebooks I've saved through the years full of horrible poetry, doodles, and clearly nothing school related. I found one that was completely made up of some really bad drawings. And a few good.  They're all pencil drawings on lined paper. You know, top of the line stuff here.

Clearly I was the coolest kid on the block back then.  Ladies lining up around the corner. I'm serious...

What's also clear is my love of BTTF and Ghostbusters. So without further ado, here are some sketches by me from back in the day. Enjoy!

The Proton Pack.

This is more modeled after the pack from the real Ghostbusters. I'm almost positive I have a better oe somewhere.  But alas, I think it's a victim of time and moving one too many times. So here is the Proton Pack at least.  I vaguely remember sitting down with one of the packs fro the action figures in front of me while trying to draw this.

Delorean 1

This was my first attempt. Not the wobbly Mr. Fusion. Man I was bored that day. The doodlings of a bored teenager. I am going to assume this was during A.P. American History.  Le'ts pretend it is. I love how there is physically no room under the hood for anything. Not even a hoover board.

Delorean 2

This is a slight improvement on the first design. Also I remember using the BTTF Micro Machine as a guide. This was before the days of buying my own collectible toys. So I had to do with what I had. Also had to guess and embellish.  A lot.

Delorean 3

What is this? Some kinda of crazy Concept? Not a clue what I was doing here. Notice how the further I advanced with these the more I threw proportion right out the window. This was also as I started getting really into classic cars which influenced the big "Swish" antenna that you sometimes see on the Ghostbusters Caddy.

There you have it. A slight glimpse into the younger me. Really not much has changed. I still sketch ideas out in spiral notebooks too.

Hot Wheels 2011 Delorean Customization

The Delorean! This little guy was staring at me at a CVS late one night. CVS of all places. I swear you can get everything there, milk, candy, razors and time machines. It's a pretty good scale representation of the car from the films.  However, something as a kid that always annoyed me was staring me in the face. Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars do the bare minimum to create their cars. They spend a little extra time on the outside and the body of the car. The interior however sucks. That's all I can say. It sucks. So I decided to rectify that for this car and possibly might go back and fix all my old Hot Wheels that yes-I-do-still-own-from-childhood! Don't Judge. 

So here is the initial car still in packaging.

2011 New Models Delorean from Back to the Future.

This is, from what I can tell of the rear of the car, from BTTF 1. There is no Mr. Fusion molded onto the car.

Out of the packaging. You can see the very basic and generic gray interior.

Yes, yes, I opened up the package and took it out. Sacrilege!

Just a side shot

First step was to drill out the 2 metal posts that keep most of these cars together. Here are the 5 pieces.

Not having an actual drill, but still a drill bit, I drilled by had which took longer and earned me a nifty callous on my index finger. You should all be jealous.

Side shot of the pieces.

A close up of the exhaust and the interior

The bottom of the chassis I hi-lighted sections with silver paint. Pretty straight forward. The mufflers were also painted but oddly not in this pic. Oh well.

The Exhaust tips and the plutonium chamber were painted black.

The windows have been blacked out to reduce some of the "blue" that the windows are molded out of.

The body with some black hi-lighting done with simple dry brushing black paint.

The front and back of the interior painted black to act as a good base for the detail.

And...detail! A lot of silver and red hilights. Along with a few yellow sections here and there.  And dry brushing black on the seats. Just to pick up the shadows.

Assembling the chassis to the interior.

Adding the Windows

Next the body

And lastly the exhaust!

 FINAL PICTURES! Here is the little devil all finished and looking pretty spiffy for the camera.
If I could put in a slide show I would. But I'm not sure how to do that yet.

*Update 12/3/2012

Because you asked for it @SamanthaRMason I have come through for you. Here is a side by side comparison of the car starting out and finished.

Enjoy!

Miss Doctor Who?

 I'm proud to say that this past year marked a lot of victories for me. One of which, converting my best friend into a Doctor Who fan. So much so, that she went as the 10th Doctor for Halloween this year.  We'll get to that in a minute. For now...Meet my friend Lauren. We go way back. She's an actor like myself only on the West coast. She's also one of those creative dorky types who when not insanely busy doing whatever it is people in L.A. do, makes things.

I'd love to give you some examples, but I have none. Because she's annoying and wont upload any old pic. That's my friend!
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She's good people. Hell of an actress and comedian. Oh yeah, and I guess a good friend. (Lauren that was for you)

But she's also talented as a seamstress. This, what follows, was made by hand and from scratch. Well, almost scratch. She didn't weave the fabric herself. So I guess we can't be THAT impressed.

The Doctor's...Shorts? I tried to tell her these pants were too short. But would she listen to me? Oh no.

Next we have the suit jacket in a state of being pinned and sewn and other technical things.

The Doctor's trench coat. Which looks amazing. I believe this was done first and the other pieces after. Lauren will have to chime in here.

The Finished product! Miss Doctor Who! and our friend Justin as a Silence victim. Don't get me started on how this messes with time lines and the 10th Doctor didn't know about the Silence and how Justin should have been Rose. Just enjoy the finished costume.  Hopefully Lauren (ahem) will send more pics for me to post.

Flux Capacitor Part 1

Ladies and Gentlemen!

I've mentioned it, or hinted at it. Something. But now I'm actually taking on the challenge of building a mini Flux Capacitor. I mean who wouldn't want one of those just sitting there on their desk? You never know when you're going to need one. So I'm taking it upon myself to flood the world (or my desk) with the power of the the Delorean.

Reference photos have actually been difficult to find. Not because they're scarce, but because there are so many. They Flux Capacitor (from here on known as "FC") changed a little in each film and then of course again in all the replicas being built both privately and licensed.

But here is a pretty good photo just to get some basic ideas from:

This is one of the do it yourself kind. Love this kind! Doc Brown wouldn't have it any other way.

Now begins my attempt at making a smaller version of this amazing piece of technology.

Dimensions were taking from the actual electrical box that it's housed in and just shrunk down. As far as my projects go, this one is the easiest to get measurements for because the things actually exist.

Pretty straight forward rectangle with sides ready to be assembled

I cut out the viewing port and will eventually cover this with a thin piece of plastic. 

There are no innards yet.  There is no nothing yet. Just a frame. A weird picture frame.

PRIMER!

For now this is it. As of posting these pictures I've moved on to step two which is to the the actually working pieces of the FL lit and properly aligned.  If I can I'll try to get some pics ready for upload tomorrow just so you can all see the magic of the light. oooh. Ahhh.

I know there isn't much here, but it's a start. It's very boxy. Once the FL has more structure I can start to round out the corners. While it is an electric box, it's not a perfect rectangle. That baby's got curves!