Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Yes: welcome back -- most of you are looking at the finished product for Model 1.0 and saying, " um, that's nice, but it's only barely a proper Blue Box."
For example, it doesn't have a beacon light on top -- that's a pretty major flaw as far as I'm concerned. It also doesn't make any noises, and nothing lights up. And if I may be so bold toward my own project: It's not entirely solid-looking. The way we assembled the "POLICE BOX" marquee is serviceable, but rather weak -- if you look at it closely you can see it's never going to light up, and it in fact is not as boxy as one might hope.
Well, I'll say it: it is version 1.0. It's perfectly good for sitting it on a bookshelf, or on your window sill. It looks about as good as the versions Amy Pond has strewn about her desk -- maybe a bit better.
But: we're not little Amelia Pond. We're Doctor Who fans, and that means we're probably more than a little bit nerdy and weird. We want what we want. So this post is the last post in Model version 1.0 posts, and in a few weeks I'll have some new posts up which talk about improvements to version 1.0 which are buildable and probably don't require any wires or batteries -- we'll call that version 1.5. After that, we'll break out the wires and the solder and the flashlights we bought for $1 at the Dollar Store (and other stuff) and build model version 2.0 which drives toward the full monte.
Enjoy!
Oh: in the meantime, leave some comments here so I know you;re not just passing through. tell me about your experiences building this model, and you suggestions for improving it.
