Tardis (natural) default appearance?
I'm well aware of the fact that TARDISES (TARDII?) have a chameleon circuit in order to fit in with their surroundings, but what do they look like naturally (i.e. when on Galifrey or when they're first born)?
(Example; the type 90 war TARDISes looked like 'large brass spheres')
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The closest thing ever shown in the history of the show was on The War Games whe the Sidrats, shorter lived versions of het tardis used by the renigate TimeLord known as teh Warlord, were just formlesss boxs that had sliding doors open when they landed. Yet they were bigger in the inside than outside and were Galifreyan tech. In fact Galifrey was first mentioned in this show. 1969 with Pat Troughton.
only a true doctor who fan, or "continuity error" spotter would ask such an in depth question.....it's not something i ever considered honestly, but it's given me something to think about!
from wikipedia:
TARDISes are characterised not just by their ability to travel in time, but also their dimensionally transcendent nature.
A TARDIS's interior spaces exist in a different dimension from its exterior, which is how it's bigger on the inside.
The Doctor states that transdimensional engineering was a key Time Lord discovery in The Robots of Death.
In the revived series, the TARDIS has an organic look, and the Doctor states in "The Impossible Planet" that TARDISes are grown, not made.
best i can come up with...sorry.
Interesting question!
Now I'm not an authority on the Whoverse, so I could be completely wrong here, but I do believe that they have never shown (or said) what it it's "default appearance" is.
It would be very interesting to find out, though.