1956 Packard Carribean Hardtop.

Mark Crowel

User of old school drafting tools; no CAD.
I have started a 1956 Packard Carribean Hardtop, about 1/20th scale (5/8ths inch to the foot). By 1956, the Studebaker-Packard merger was two years old.
My usual strip-and-panel construction. I have tried getting more accurate with my models, many times, but a lack of patience and proficiency in geometry gets in the way.
I finally realize that I like my basic method; its consistency, predicatability, simplicity, and its look. I've done so many models this way on the paper modeling forums, that it has become my trademark method. It's the way I build a car.
I started with an old magazine advertisement as the reference for my profile drawings and subsequent patterns.
 

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valmy33

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I have started a 1956 Packard Carribean Hardtop, about 1/20th scale (5/8ths inch to the foot). By 1956, the Studebaker-Packard merger was two years old.
My usual strip-and-panel construction. I have tried getting more accurate with my models, many times, but a lack of patience and proficiency in geometry gets in the way.
I finally realize that I like my basic method; its consistency, predicatability, simplicity, and its look. I've done so many models this way on the paper modeling forums, that it has become my trademark method. It's the way I build a car.
I started with an old magazine advertisement as the reference for my profile drawings and subsequent patterns.

Hello Mark,

Simple and effective. I like and share this method. :thumb:

Faithfully
Valmy
 

Mark Crowel

User of old school drafting tools; no CAD.
Thank you, Valmy. I would be interested in seeing your models.

Best Regards,
Mark
 

Mark Crowel

User of old school drafting tools; no CAD.
Now for the assembly of the center body section. You see why it's called strip-and-panel construction. The panel parts that you saw in the first post, are joined by strips. The strips for the center section are two and a half inches wide.
Notice the half-inch wide strips along the edges of the undersides of the strip parts. This makes the edges double thick for easy gluing. I don't like to use flaps for gluing; it's cumbersome, and can be sloppy, so I glue edge-to-edge, strip edge to panel edge.
When joining two strip segments together, as with the bumper segment to the grille segment, they are connected, by both being glued to a piece of paper.
 

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  • front bumper base.JPG
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Mark Crowel

User of old school drafting tools; no CAD.
Now for the roof strip and trunk section strip.
After that, this subassembly is glued to the other panel
 

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  • center body subassembly ready for second panel.JPG
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  • front angle of complete bare center body.JPG
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Mark Crowel

User of old school drafting tools; no CAD.
When I try to upload my most recent photos, I get this notice:
This is not a valid image file.

These photos are all from the same folder as those I successfully uploaded so far for this thread.

Why is this happening?

Mark Crowel
 

Mark Crowel

User of old school drafting tools; no CAD.
New center body section, with curves.

curvedcenterbodyfrontangle.jpg
 

Mark Crowel

User of old school drafting tools; no CAD.
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.
 
Z

Zathros

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

Mark Crowel

User of old school drafting tools; no CAD.
Thank you, Zathros.

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

seatbasebrackets.jpg


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corrugatedseatcushions.jpg
 
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Vermin_King

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