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I have a few photos from the construction process, if you are interested.
I kind of wish I had documented it more extensively, but here's what I have.
This started out as one of the original slab doors from my house.
All the others have been replaced with nicer doors, so I had plenty to choose from.
I cut pieces of half-inch plywood to make the "panels".
A most excellent coincidence occurred during this part of the project. I placed glue on the back of the boards, and secured them with a random but appropriate amount of screws - two for each of the smaller pieces, four for the larger horizontal pieces, five for the vertical ones, etc... When I counted up the total number of screws out of curiosity, I found that the complete assembly had required 63 screws. As you may be aware, Doctor Who aired for the very first time in... 1963.
Here is the rough door, laid out in preliminary fashion so I could imagine how it would look once finished:
And here's how it looked once covered in beautiful TARDIS blue. (The windows are at the near end now.)
For the record, if you like the color and need any TARDIS paint for your own projects, I used Behr Ultra, color S-H-560, "Royal Breeze", purchased from Home Depot.
Next I painted the window areas silver and glued down the Plexiglas. I cut the window "frames" out of quarter-inch plywood, painted them white, and glued them on top.
And that was just the door itself. I still had to make the Police Box sign and the roof light,
as well as the telephone door and the "Free for Use of Public" sign that goes on it.
What a huge undertaking!
Of course I can never leave this house now.
