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!