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Well, clearly it can't be anywhere near 82mm, because the thing would scale out to about 7ft wide. I'm more inclined to believe Chris V's measurements.

If only there was a way of scaling an stil file in the slicer...

Surely that isn't going to be the box art? 🤦‍♂️

In that case, I would procure an original Jo-Han kit.

I ended up going the 3D printing route. Still a work in progress, but nearly there....

Yeah, those are way too big. If you work from a known dimension and scale the model correctly, you only have to print it once. 🤔 The real car had a 4 speed anyway - might as well use the Nova tranny. BTW, the heads are the wrong way around, if that matters to you...

I prefer Tamiya's LP-65 rubber black.

Beyond niche... neither of these entities claiming the Jo-Han name is capable of reproducing the lost tooling or even running any of the tooling that might still exist. I would love to be able to buy a reissued Jo-Han 1966 Chrysler 300, 1968 Olds 442 or 1970 Plymouth GTX, but it will never happen. Registering a variation of a defunct trading name and banging out cobbled together leftovers or limited production resin kits is not bringing back Jo-Han. I'd have more respect for them if they just used their own business names and admitted what they were. As has been mentioned several times, neither version of "Jo-Han" is a mainstream, volume manufacturer. This belongs in the aftermarket section.

My nearly 40 year old copy is almost falling apart, but you can find in online now. https://archive.org/details/standardcatalogo0000unse_k2c4

I just use a calculator. 🤨

The cab looks like the old Lindberg one, sanded smooth. https://public.fotki.com/drasticplasticsmcc/mkiba-build-under-c/linberg/lindberg-32-pickup-/#media

Looks like this one: https://www.cgtrader.com/3d-print-models/hobby-diy/automotive/dodge-polara-sedan-1969 Seems there are a few people printing and selling his files.

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...