Author: Eric Fritzius
March 9, 2018
(An ongoing writing project in which I catalog and quantify my extensive TARDIS collection.)
This “shotglass” TARDIS used to be the smallest TARDIS I owned, and was for a few years. This particular police box was made by the Hornby company (R8696 Skaledale Blue Police Box 1/76 Scale) and is meant to be scenery for a model railroad setup. As such, it’s more to the specs of an actual police call box than it is to the various props from Doctor Who. You can find them online, often on ebay, though they’re starting to get more expensive than the one I bought. (I seem to recall it being fairly cheap when I bought mine, under $10. The ones on ebay now start at nearly $30 before shipping, which is a lot to pay for a chunk of painted resin in my book.
For most of the years I’ve owned the Hornby it’s been on display atop an upside down clear Listerine measuring cup–which is the same size as a shot glass, hence the name “shotglass” TARDIS. And while it was the smallest TARDIS in my collection for some time, that honor has gone to another for the past four years or so.
This “shotglass” TARDIS used to be the smallest TARDIS I owned, and was for a few years. This particular police box was made by the Hornby company (R8696 Skaledale Blue Police Box 1/76 Scale) and is meant to be scenery for a model railroad setup. As such, it’s more to the specs of an actual police call box than it is to the various props from Doctor Who. You can find them online, often on ebay, though they’re starting to get more expensive than the one I bought. (I seem to recall it being fairly cheap when I bought mine, under $10. The ones on ebay now start at nearly $30 before shipping, which is a lot to pay for a chunk of painted resin in my book.