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British Telephone Box - Part III

In order to make sure that the crown emblems are in the same spot on all four sides, I cut this little template out of poster board.

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That worked perfectly! No glue was required for the TELEPHONE signs. They just snap right into place.

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I installed all the windows and glued in the back frames to hold them in place.

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It's time to work on the interior. The original model for the phone that I designed was meant to be 3D printed. I decided to laser cut it. I thought printing it would require too much cleanup work. In addition, those buttons are pretty small. I don't think they'll come out very well.

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I redrew the model into layers to accommodate 1/4" and 1/8" draftboard and added some text.

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Even the handset is made up of layers of draftboard.

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I then exported all the faces as SVGs.

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The parts came out awesome.

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Here's the handset. I think I'll take some sandpaper and round-off all the edges.

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That will do nicely.

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Now all it needs is some paint and epoxy.

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That came out really nice. The paint job is not perfect, but I think it looks really good.

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Compared to my reference image, it's a pretty convincing looking phone. Now it's time to work on the signs and the backboard.

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For the signs, I thought I could just crop some images I found online, do a little cleanup work, and just print them. However, they looked horrible when printed.

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I decided to just recreate them as best as I could in Inkscape.

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I cut out a backboard and made some frames for the signs. That looks really good.

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For the plate that goes under that, I 3D printed it.

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After two coats of primer and two coats of red, it was good to go.

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Time for final assembly! I replaced the temporary base with the black one.

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I then glued in the interior pieces.

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Finally, the top and the handle. Wow, I can't believe how nice it came out!

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Now, at 22" tall, where am I going to put it?

See this project from start to finish:
British Telephone Box - Part I
British Telephone Box - Part II
British Telephone Box - Part III