1956 Studebaker President Classic, 1/10th scale.

[Mark Crowel]

I built this homemade cardboard and colored paper model for a friend in Maryland, who has the real thing. The orange color is authentic. Studebaker called it "Tangerine", and offered it for only part of 1956.

Here are some of the build photos. The finished model is about 21 inches long. It is also my avatar.

[CB]

Wow! That's a pretty cool model, Mark! Different--but cool. Paper spark plug wires! Looks like it is all paper except for the 'glass'? You say 'colored paper'---can you be more specific? like cardstock? or?

I seem to remember running across a forum just for paper models a couple years ago. You in?

Once again, nice work. Thanks for posting it up

[Bernard Kron]

Totally, utterly cool!

BUt you'd have a tough time with it at an IPMA show...

[old-hermit]

Definately different but as said before pretty cool.

Plus if you can do that with paper I wonder what you can do in plastic.

[James W]

Thanks for posting this.

I have seen paper models from many years ago and had no idea anybody still did them.

How long have you done this sort of thing ?

It's really cool.

[Mark Crowel]

Thanks for posting this.

I have seen paper models from many years ago and had no idea anybody still did them.

How long have you done this sort of thing ?

It's really cool.

Thanks for all the compliments, and I'll try to answer all the questions.

I started the switch from plastic car kits, to scratchbuilding with cardboard, back in 1980, so I could have models of the cars I like. Please see my entries on the members gallery here on Model Cars Magazine Forum.

The spark plugs are cut from Q-tip swab sticks, and the colored paper is cardstock. Plastic transparency makers are the "glass".

There are IPMA meets that now allow paper model entries. Paper modeling is growing in popularity, due to:

lower costs;

easy workability, especially for scratchbuilding;

and an increasing variety of commercially produced paper kits (mostly available in downloadable format, or CD's, or mail order).

There is a card modelers' forum on Zealot Hobby Forum, and an online club called Papermodelers.com I'm a member of both cardmodeler sites. They are very active, with a few thousand members each, mostly from the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Europe.

Thank you again for your interest and encouraging comments.

Mark

[Harry P.]

Pretty cool!

Now if only they could figure out a way to do compound curves in paper...

[Mark Crowel]

Pretty cool!

Now if only they could figure out a way to do compound curves in paper...

There are modelers who can do compound curves in paper, but I'm not one of them.

It involves thin strips of paper, each cut to a simple curve and joined in succession along their edges, to produce the compound curve. I've seen this done with motorcycle fenders, old car fenders, and ship hulls.

The closest I've come is with this red 1950 bullet-nose Studebaker's hood (see attachment).

[Mark Crowel]

Here is the link for the complete build thread on this car: http://www.zealot.com/forum/showthread.php?t=157283