Building a Police Box

Table of Contents

• 1Introduction
• 2Description
• 3Photos of construction part 1
• 4Photos of construction part 2
• 5Explanations
• 6Plans - Front, floor and footprint
• 7Plans - Base, floor, and wall layout
• 8Plans - Top and roof (millimetres)
• 9Plans - Top and roof (inches)
• 10Plans - The sign
• 11Plans - Details
• 12Plans - Fixed walls - metric
• 13Plans - Fixed wall - standard
• 14Plans - Wall/door - metric
• 15Plans - Wall/door - standard
• 16Materials overall
• 17Framing wood by section - metric
• 18Framing wood by section - standard
• 19Cutting list (frame)
• 20Step 1. Cut the frame pieces to length
• 21Step 2. Rip the relevant pieces to the required widths
• 22Step 3. Make the base
• 23Step 4. Make up the pillars
• 24Step 5. Assemble and stand the frames
• 25Step 6. Make the head (top section)
• 26Step 7. Make the walls
• 27Step 8. Install the walls, head, and door
• 28Step 9. Shape and fix the mullions
• 29Step 10. Shape and fix the decorative pillar top pieces
• 30Step 11. Paint time
• 31Step 12. Make the windows
• 32Step 13. Add the 'police call box' sign
• 33Step 14. Final touches (almost)
• 34Roof lamp Introduction
• 35Roof lamp Plans
• 36Sourcing the components
• 37Overview
• 38The lamp container cap
• 39Fibreglassing the cap
• 40The lamp container base
• 41Threaded rod to the cap
• 42Assemble the lamp container
• 43Put in a light or two
• 44The lights go on

The hardest part to find (for me, anyway) to make this lamp, was the fresnel lens.
I eventually saw one in a ship lamp (anchor light) that was sitting in the widow of a ship’s chandler.
I purchased the complete lamp just to get the lens but the lamp was not wasted as I replaced the fresnel lens with plain glass – simply a glass jar (from the supermarket) with the bottom cut off. It worked perfectly so I ended up with a working ships lamp as well as a fresnel lens for the TARDIS project.

The fresnel lens was 106mm (4 3/8″) outside diameter (at the widest part) and 90mm (3 1/2″) high.
The inside diameter was 76mm (3″) one end and 78mm (a little over 3″) at the other end.

All of the rest of the components I found without too much trouble.

Note: Since obtaining the fresnel lens, I have seen others at various places online including ebay.