1956 Packard Carribean Hardtop.

[Mark Crowel]

[Mark Crowel]

I was able to post photos from Photobucket, so now you see the curved surfaces of the new center body section, and what I have completed so far of the interior tub assembly.

I like this style of building you are doing. It has much potential. I look forward to the final design. Very cool and innovative.

[Mark Crowel]

Thank you, Zathros.

Today:
Seat base brackets.
Seat base on brackets.
Corrugated seat cushions.

[Vermin_King]

At the Cole Camp, Missouri Fair this weekend, they had a convertible version of this car. Gorgeous

[Mark Crowel]

Those Caribbeans are indeed beautiful. I hope this model can come close to doing the real car justice.

Instead of using the corrugated slabs (above posts)for seat cushions, I made the cushions and seat backs as strip-and-panel boxes. If I had used the corrugated pieces, I would have had to paper the fluted edges, and I still would have had to clad them with cardboard strips and panels.


The front seat is done, and is dry test-fitted into the interior.

It seems to take as long to do an interior as it does to do an entire exterior.

[Mark Crowel]

[Mark Crowel]

[Mark Crowel]

[Mark Crowel]

I hope I did the backside of the front seat correctly. I was working from photos downloaded from the internet, plus factory photos from a book.

[Mark Crowel]

I'm now convinced that I spend more time building the interior of a model car, than I spend building the body.

In paper modeling, we have to make the parts first, before we can glue them in place.

The steering wheel is a 1/16th inch wide strip of cardboard, covered in colored paper and coiled into a loop. Likewise the horn ring. Circular pieces (steering wheel center and dash guages) were made by a quarter inch punch and an eighth inch punch.

The stalk for the pushbutton automatic transmission control box is made from layered 1/16th inch wide strips, covered in colored paper. These strips were shaped to form the sides of the little transmission control box. The face of the box is a sheet of silver coated cardboard; the backside is regular cardboard covered with colored paper. The unit is oversized, and on my model you wouldn't be able to open that glovebox door with that control box in the way. but there's no way I'm doing THAT job over!

[Mark Crowel]

I discovered that I needed two more brackets on the back of the front seat.

[Mark Crowel]

The rear seat.

[Mark Crowel]

With front and back seats. I still have a way to go with this interior.

[Mark Crowel]

I realize that the padding on the back of the front seat is much too thick, but I just don't have the heart to tear it off and do it over.