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I was about to point out that the engine in the Coronet is orange and that's a 440... seems possible he painted all his engines Hemi orange.

Good effort, but not quite correct.

I printed a grille for this - it could probably do with a bit of refinement. 🫤

Thanks, it's an Elegoo Mars 4 Ultra. I use Siraya Tech Fast Navy Grey ABS-like resin. I tried Elegoo resin, but wasn't impressed. Exposure time was nearly double that of the Siraya Tech resin and it was much more temperature sensitive, so I'd get print failures. No such problems with the Siraya Tech resin, I get perfect prints even in a cool room in the winter.

Thanks. FreeCAD isn't too hard to get started with. You draw 2D sketches and extrude, rotate, pocket etc. those sketches to create 3D shapes. It's arguably more suited to "engineering" type work than it is to organic shapes. It can still be done, but requires more thought. Blender might be better for that kind of thing. I use it for previewing meshes and joining STL files that I've drawn as separate parts, but drawing anything from scratch in Blender feels like hard work. As an example, this MEL engine started with a 2D sketch of the block's cross section: Extruded to length: Then it's just a matter of adding and taking away bits.

Progress - push bumper and boom done. Still undecided on colours.

It was on the cover of the May 1967 R&C.

Yes, the K-member is a bolt-on part, so that and the trans mount were painted separately from the underbody. The wheel wells had some kind of black undercoating, and the front of the radiator support would be blacked out so it didn'tshow through the grille. Same applies to E bodies.

Nice colour. If I can make a suggestion for the future, you might want to glue the front subframe to the floor pan and paint them as an assembly. On B bodies it was part of the unibody structure, so only the K member and the transmission mount would be painted black.

Nope. That's ugly as sin and completely soulless. Modern cars and trucks leave me cold.

I had the stock and street machine versions of the AMT kit - sold them both unbuilt. That AMT body just doesn't look right to my eyes, it's kind of bloated and looks oversized. The street machine version has a non-stock chassis, tubs, modernised big block and the aforementioned ugly wheels. If you want to build a period '90s custom, you're all set, otherwise it's horribly dated. The Revell Bel Air sedan is miles better - body proportions look good and it has a decent stock chassis. If I really wanted a hardtop, I'd use the Revell snap kit body with this chassis.

Hope you don't mind me posting this - as it's not on Youtube, you might not have come across it. Even with the air shifted auxiliary, you have your hands full. ? https://fb.watch/vFRorbiNle/

Well, I could change my name to Joan Collins, but I still wouldn't be her...

You only have "rights" to the name if it's trademarked, and you're prepared to lawyer up to protect it. Okey Spaulding trademarked "JOHAN MODELS" and "JOHAN" years ago, under Johan Models, LLC (note: no hyphen). Both of those trademarks are dead, as is the company. Now he has a new company, Re-Johan Technologies LLC and he filed to trademark "JOHAN" again in February this year, application still pending. As to what he actually has in the physical realm, who the helll knows. "JO-HAN MODELS INC." (hyphenated) was the trademark of the original company and expired in 1997. Seville registered "JO-HAN",which went in 1999, then Playing Mantis had registered it from 2003 - 2010. A gentleman from Ohio applied to register it in 2018 and that's the Jo-Han that is the subject of this thread.

1. Where, if you don't do FB? There's no Johan website - it's 2024 for Christ's sake, and you can set up a website for peanuts. 2. Searching for "Atomic City models" brings up a site on SciFi models - did they not check if the name was already in use (and if not,why not?). Posts on that site suggest money being taken and kits never produced, so the name association is very unfortunate if they're unrelated. Brand identity is really confused here. ? 3. Further to the other posts, if they're only producing short run resin kits *and* only marketing them on Facebook (!) they certainly belong in the "aftermarket" category and not the "manufacturer" one. If the name were something other than "Jo-Han", what would you think then? I'm sure they are great guys and I wish them well, but they definitely need some help with marketing and branding.