Made of plywood and semi transparent white acrylic. The blue LEDs on the inside are flicker flame style so they look like blue candle light. The light on top is solid white. I used Ultra Dye for the color, which is a really good match.
My original design was going to have doors that open, but the inside ended up being too small to do anything fun with. I was also working towards a scale that would fit on a single sheet of birch ply.
Eventually I went with solid doors and replaced the engraves on the front doors.
I have a second one that was covered in blue card stock, which I will assemble later on this weekend. I expect I will miss the woodgrain but we shall see.
The white light is 3 layers of the semi-transparent acrylic; two cylinders and a solid circle for the top. The sections were lined up on a 1/4 inch wooden rod and glued with this stuff:
It seems to work well for acrylic, and it doesn’t stick to the wood at all, so it pulls off the wooden rod easily. However, I would note that while it says it is " Medium Bodied" it tends to run out of the tube like water with little to no pressure and can be a bit messy.
Shhhhh…no one is supposed to know that the hopper is a Tardis. Dan’s been stuffing so much in there over the past 4 years you’d think people would be wise to it, but until now there hasn’t been a leak. Sheesh.
