Harry P.

That Tucker convertible is beautiful... A little offbeat, styling-wise, but very cool.

And I'm going with the full wheel covers, too. Like this one...

Yes.

Another great tutorial, Ray.

Here are a few more examples. As you can see, no two are exactly alike, they were all custom-bodied... which means that no matter how I build mine, I can't be wrong! I'm going to take a detail from one, a detail from another, make up a few details, and create my own design.

Probably. I usually don't build during the summer.

Because the fenders/floorboard unit will get a lot of handling as I build the body, I want all glue joints to be extra strong. I didn't want to rely on only the edges of the floorboard gluing to the rear fenders, I wanted a meatier joint. So I added lengths of square styrene rod to reinforce that joint (after making sure there was enough clearance between the frame rails and the underside of the floor. Liquid cement is the way to go...

Because the body sides of the woody will be fairly straight vertically and not "tuck under" at the running boards like the sheetmetal of the stock body and doors, the woody body will be wider at the base then the stock sheetmetal body would be. That means I can't use the kit's door posts as is... I'll have to move the door posts further out a bit. So I filled the openings where the stock doorposts would go with sheet styrene...

In building the woody body. I'll need a solid base to build on and to mark the various reference points. I glued the broken fender unit together, then glued the altered floorboard in place. Then I covered the fenders and running boards with masking tape and temporarily added the cowl in place. I used a red Sharpie to mark on the running boards where the outer surface of the cowl is... Then I used the Sharpie to draw a line along the running boards and rear fenders to represent the outer edge of the woody body:

The floor ends where the trunk begins. The woody body obviously doesn't have a trunk, so I'll need to extend the floor back to meet the rear wall of the woody body. I'll need to get rid of that raised edge at the back... Once again, a razor saw makes the job easy... Once I have the new body developed further, I'll know exactly how far I'll need to extend that floor backwards.

Let's get started. I jump around while I build... might work on the chassis a while, jump to the interior/dash, back to the engine, etc. The first thing I'll do is get rid of what I don't need. Here's the stock body: The only part of this that I need is the cowl and windshield frame. All else will be scratchbuilt. So let's cut the portion I need from the portion I don't. A razor saw makes quick work of it... Everything from the cowl back goes in the trash...

Yes.

#3, Bad Co., Silver Blue and Gold. I posted it many pages ago.

Very cool! A '67 Impala is one of my all-time favorite cars. The styling is fantastic, I love it!

This is a project that has been kicking around in my cranium for literally years. This is what I have in mind (not necessarily this exact car, but something similar): My first plan was to use the Pocher "Star of India" RR as the donor kit. I even went so far as to buy a Pocher "Star of India" RR for mucho bucks. with the intention of going ahead with this project. But for some reason, I was never able to pull the trigger. I went over the building sequence in my head dozens of times... but every time, I decided that it was just too much of a project. Scratchbuilding a 1/8 scale woody body just seemed like a mountain I couldn't climb... and the project stalled. I still have the Pocher "Star of India" kit... still unstarted. Maybe someday I'll build it. But I finally decided to actually do this project–in a smaller (and hopefully easier) scale. Since I have amassed quite a collection of classics in 1/16 scale (as those of you who follow my posts already know), I figured it made sense to do my RR woody at that scale. From what I found out doing my research, it seems that most RR woodies (or "shooting brakes" or "estate wagons" to use the proper British terms) were based on the Phantom III. So step one was to find a suitable kit. I bought this Entex Phantom III on ebay, from a seller that described it as a "junkyard kit"... The reason the ebay seller described the kit as a "junkyard kit" was that there were a lot of broken pieces. The fenders, the frame rails, many smaller frame and suspension parts were literally broken in pieces. I have no idea how that happened, but I got the kit for a steal because of the "junkyard" status. Turns out that all the broken bits were in the box... the kit was complete. A little gluing together of various parts here and there and the kit was good to go. The only rub was that the instruction booklet was missing, but as usual, MCM forum members came to the rescue,

I can't believe a full-blown, full-detail styrene Tucker kit hasn't been offered yet. Seems like a no-brainer. My money is on Moebius (if anyone) to actually do it.

"I got my bag... run to the station. Railman says you've got the the wrong location"...

You're on a roll, Ed!

"Sometimes up, sometimes down, my life's so uncertain with you not around"...

"Wedding bells are gonna chime... Baby, baby, you're gonna be mine"...

"There's blood in the streets, it's up to my ankles. Blood in the streets, it's up to my knee"...

"No one knows what it's like to be hated... To be fated to telling only lies"...

Well, leave it to me to throw some cold water on this... But your wheel/tire choice sure doesn't leave much room for suspension travel before the tires are rubbing up against the wheelwells...

Nicely done, Ray. Looks like a baby Ram...