JoHan fall release

[ZTony8]

i got wind of the subject and it's VERY unusual. I won't break the news as I'm sure it will be posted tomorrow by many with the announcement at our show. It's NOT a Davis!

Edited March 27, 2022 by ZTony8

[Oldcarfan27]

Don't start with a title you can't deliver on!

[Luc Janssens]

Amen!

 

[ChrisBcritter]

Later today would be fine. If you held off until Thursday the 1st, we'd have our doubts. 

[keyser]

Is it a Dymaxion? Huge untapped market. Davis. Lol. Sadly I knew exactly what that was. Reading > Google long obsoleted 

[Motor City]

Good thing it won't be a 1940s Davis.  On the other hand, what about the Davis cyclecar made in Detroit or this one made in Richmond, Indiana?

[OldNYJim]

The suspense is killing me… ? 

[1930fordpickup]

You will all be surprised and scratching your head within seconds. I bet the thread is locked within 4 pages. 

[Daddyfink]

[paul alflen]

They are reissuing the BF Goodrich promo truck by reverse 3-d printing? The 35 Mercedes street rod is finally coming out? They found the molds to the  Testor's run of  the 4 Prostreet Models? Come on Tony tell us already!

[Dave Van]

How many years ago did JoHan show at RCHTA with a big catalog full of stuff???? Then Moebius looked at some tooling and passed. I know myself a number of folks have looked at the tooling....all passed......SO FAR

[paul alflen]

Johan has licensed all it's kits to STL. files that we can now download and print off our 3-d printers for  a small fee ? Any obsolete Johan kit is now available? That would bring JOHAN into the 22 century, now wouldn't it? Just think the company wouldn't have to resurrect any tooling . Just scan an old mint kit , lay it out in a nice printable file , collect the money . give out  a password and  Print ! No packaging, no tooling ,( no China production) Direct ship to the end user via computer and his 3-d printer!( I am just guessing here , Please don't repeat this as fact!)

Edited March 28, 2022 by paul alflen
Correct spelling

[Khils]

On 3/26/2022 at 11:33 PM, ZTony8 said:

I'm sure it will be posted tomorrow........

Mmmm Hmmmmm....tomorrow ....is not a given!

[Tom Geiger]

if it's the 3D printed interior for the '56 Pontiac, Okey already posted it on Facebook

[keyser]

Winnah winnah chicken dinnah. 

[Chuck Kourouklis]

Must say, that does look very good.

Now all I need is the Pontiac to go around it.

[wrenchr]

They were at the show yesterday. I looked them over and the interior looks very good.  The johan booth... 

Edited March 28, 2022 by wrenchr

[niteowl7710]

2 hours ago, paul alflen said:

Johan has licensed all it's kits to STL. files that we can now download and print off our 3-d printers for  a small fee ? Any obsolete Johan kit is now available? That would bring JOHAN into the 22 century, now wouldn't it? Just think the company wouldn't have to resurrect any tooling . Just scan an old mint kit , lay it out in a nice printable file , collect the money . give out  a password and  Print ! No packaging, no tooling ,( no China production) Direct ship to the end user via computer and his 3-d printer!( I am just guessing here , Please don't repeat this as fact!)

But at home printing isn't there yet. Unless you have a larger 8K printer you're not going to have the print space to make an entire body. That doesn't even go down the road that there is no industry standard with 3D printing so what might work on one printer will likely be a total disaster on another without reworking the slices and support system.

I think Ford, GM, and Stellantis would also have a lot to say if you tried to sell the files commercially on a large scale like that.

Besides the "sales job" was this whole thing was that it was supposed to be an all new kit that has never been done by any kit manufacturer before. I've been across social media all day and plenty of people here went to the D.A.A.M. Show and not a single thing has been mentioned about this "big announcement", so I presume that like most things involving Okey since he got ahold of JoHan there's nothing to see here.

[stavanzer]

??

[Matt T.]

Okaaaay. Seems like much ado…

And what will this cost? A set of headers on Shapeways is over $12!

[ChrisBcritter]

Well! If it comes out soon, great - I have a green '56 kit and photoetch emblems ready to go. Now howzabout a 3D printed chassis?

Per Okey on FB: "The new kit will not be ready, but I will show the work in progress." ZTony8, can you confirm?

Edited March 29, 2022 by ChrisBcritter

[TECHMAN]

???

I, like a bunch of us, would LOVE to see lots of the old Johan kits' "come back out", and maybe this is a precursor to the release of a 56 Pontiac, but if it isn't, then where would the interior do any of us much good????   Been to a LOT of model shows over the years, with hundreds of vendors, and think MAYBE, have seen one old warped promo for sale....

DJ

[Luc Janssens]

Don't know what's up, but with the technolodgies out there, anything is possible, but the neccesary funds have to be available, and a forcast of a good return on that investment a must,  otherwise it's money down the drain and for a small operation like today's Jo-Han, one miss can be fatal.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited March 29, 2022 by Luc Janssens

[Motor City]

17 minutes ago, TECHMAN said:

???

I, like a bunch of us, would LOVE to see lots of the old Johan kits' "come back out", and maybe this is a precursor to the release of a 56 Pontiac, but if it isn't, then where would the interior do any of us much good????   Been to a LOT of model shows over the years, with hundreds of vendors, and think MAYBE, have seen one old warped promo for sale....

DJ

X-El reissued the 4-door hardtop Star Chief many years ago as an already-built promo and as a kit to be assembled.

[Justin Porter]

Funny thing to me is that in truth if Spaulding actually HAS anything of value it would lie in whether or not he's maintained any sort of IP Licensing rights to AMC products. The tooling is meaningless at this point. If he's not running it, it can't be either usable or complete and it's all archaic garbage anyways. But legacy licensing rights that are already negotiated, set in stone, and paid for? Now THAT is something worth buying out.