(Pics) Brooklin 1954 Packard Caribbean

True to your word Ed. Thanks, it's a beaut'.

It is a gorgeous automobile and model !

Indeed a nice model but I believe the hood scoop is too high. I also hope they will install a gearshift on the production models.

But one must be quite careful in making negative judgements based solely on a photograph. The best is generally an actual in person viewing of the model in relation to the actual automobile.

@nickies 

Here is photo showing front of model. I will let the readers make their own decision about the hood.

Photos from Forum43, Worthpoint, and wiki...   

Posted by: @mikedetorrice

But one must be quite careful in making negative judgements based solely on a photograph. The best is generally an actual in person viewing of the model in relation to the actual automobile.

Well, I think the various photographs shown give clear enough illustrations and I don't think they are misleading.

I think the hood scoop does look too high, and a little unsubtle compared with the rest of the model (it almost looks like a backyard mechanic has fabricated a slightly crude replacement.)  Its front inlet looks at least twice as deep as the real thing. The photo below suggests that the Brooklin scoop should fade out much more into the hood as it moves from front to back (A), it should curve very slightly down towards the front rather than being a rising straight line (B) and maybe the curve of the front of the hood should rise a little more towards the base of the scoop  to reduce the apparent depth of the inlet (C).

Whether you are an amateur or a professional model builder it is very easy to over-emphasise certain details just to make sure they "catch the eye". If this is a prototype still subject to some late "tweaks", quite frankly they should take a file to the casting, reduce the height of all of the scoop just a fraction and curve it down very slightly towards the front to reduce the depth of the scoop intake.

@karl 

Thanks for the photos.

To my eye the scoop is too high. I accept that an element of 'license' is needed to express the nature of a particular car and indeed, I am not too keen on present resin models for their lack of character (as I see it). But even my Caribbean troubles me over its blackened scoop.

Tht's a Minimarque, right? I've look at other pics of it which suggest that it has the more subtly curved shape I suggested the Brooklin needs, but spoiled by a heavy-handed application of black paint which covers the edges of the intake as well as the actual opening. With a finer black line (or maybe a black wash) it would look better.

All present comments considered, I feel it is worth seeing also the model's crisp grille, beautiful interior, colour and finish. What to us may be an intellectual conversation piece, among (varying degrees of..) peers. To most, this will be a stunning and 100% ideal model.

Relying simply on pictures/photographs seen on an uncalibrated monitor under unknown viewing conditions and from many times unknown sources and under unknown conditions from the internet (which is always right, correct ?) is risky. Especially so without the actual automobile and the released model to directly compare with one another.    

Well, yes. I was careful to say I found the scoop disappointing compared to the rest of the model. Plenty of finely crafted exterior and interior detail all round, showing a good deal of subtlety in the casting, which is why I find it unfortunate that the scoop looks like a clumsy add-on. If people are delighted with it just as it is, I can't argue, but if this had been a DeAgostini partwork model (at one tenth of the price) I think it might have been criticised for that less than happy bit of detail.