Johan 1966 AMC Marlin

[Joe Lange]

Greetings All,

This has been an 'on & off' project for a while.  Never bothered with WIP photos because it was a used Ebay kit that required a bit of paint stripping and disassembling.  (Did manage to snap photos of the completed engine.)  Fortunately, the chrome parts were very good and the kit was complete!  Hope you enjoy it and thanks for looking.

 

 

[michelle]

very nice looking  great job 
i wonder if there was some spying going on either from dodge or amc cause this car looks like a first gen charger aka 66-67 

[Sidney Schwartz]

I'm drooling. Would love one of these kits. Just did a Google search and came up with zilch. ☹️

[happy grumpy]

Great build. Any jo-han kit now is a rarity, the one beautifully built even more. Thanks for sharing that gem.

[charger74]

It looks great ????

[70 Sting]

Exceptional work. ?

[Kah puts]

That looks amazing ?

[Mopar2]

Totally amazing build...Nice job...

[XYHARRY]

Great to see these rare kits built and yours stands out for attention to detail. Well done Joe.

Cheers, 

David. ??

[afx]

Very nice work Joe.

[atomicholiday]

Beautiful build.   Your scripts look fantastic!  What method did you use for them? 

[eastown]

Excellent job. 

[Tom99]

Very nice!!

[ModelcarJR]

Looks great, Joe! I still kick myself for not buying some of these Jo-Han kits when they were on the shelves years ago! Nice work on yours! ??

[Snake45]

Magnificent work! VERY well done and model on! 

[ChrisR]

Looks great!

[drodg]

You got to love that!  Congratulations

 

[Classicgas]

Man that is gorgeous.

[Hi-Po]

Nicely done!  Neat and clean.

[kelson]

Real beautiful looking build!.

[Joe Lange]

16 hours ago, michelle said:

very nice looking  great job 
i wonder if there was some spying going on either from dodge or amc cause this car looks like a first gen charger aka 66-67 

Thanks Michelle,  You're close.  The car was originally named the Tarpon and was designed as a 2+2 to compete with the original Mustang and Barracuda 'Pony Cars'.  It was the brainchild of auto designer Richard Teague and CEO George Romney.  It was the perfect size to compete head on with the Mustang and Barracuda and there was even a show car making the car show circuit when it got canceled!  Romney left for a political career and Roy Abernethy became the new CEO and immediately cancelled it.  He thought it should be bigger and longer.  Really screwed up the proportions.  Quite a few articles have been written about how Abernethy messed this up and didn't do much to help AMC either.  There are some interesting articles on how the Tarpon 'grew' into the Marlin.

[Nosferatu]

Beautiful work! 

I always liked Marlins and yours is really nice!

Dave

[Joe Lange]

8 hours ago, atomicholiday said:

Beautiful build.   Your scripts look fantastic!  What method did you use for them? 

Thanks Jeremy,   Nothing really special.  Just a really thin bristle brush and very little silver paint on the brush.  It's always easier to add paint then remove it.  (and, a cup of coffee to help steady my hand!) 

[Joe Lange]

Thanks everyone for all the comments!  Learned a lot from all your photos and ideas. 

[TonyK]

Had this kit a long time ago but sold it. Never could figure out if I liked the car or not but I can tell a nicely built model when I see one. Good job!