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Nicely done, Force. I always enjoy reading minutia on nitro engines. My background is mechanical engineering, yet I never cease to be amazed at the mind bogglingly incredible numbers. 900-1100 lbs of down force from the zoomies! First time I heard this stat. Mind blowing. When I was a teen and really keen about understanding engine physics, I calculated the total number of revolutions for a top fuel run, and came up with a number similarly low to what quoted above. I was certain the answer was wrong, but couldn’t find a mistake in the math. Checked it several times, then the penny dropped… mind blown!

Nailed it! It’s absolutely stunning. You sweated the details and it shows. A beautiful model of a beautiful car.

Nice Mustang II. Great colour.

Fantastic. Nice work on the forward features.

Very cool, Bernard. Looking forward to this.

I do as well, and loudly applaud the efforts of both.

Great looking Comet, John. That's a seriously wicked look. Nicely done.

The awesomeness continues. The hood letters look fantastic. I appreciate the torture of cutting that beautiful hood, but the scoop does look good.

Nice looking Bronco. Love the colour. What paint is that?

When I first saw this photo I thought "What abomination is this?" But after reading a couple articles, it's actually pretty cool.

Excellent conversion, Brian. Very nice work on a very cool car. Well done.

Nicely done. Good work on the decals.

Sweet Impala. Love the look. Colour and wheel choice are perfect. Very cool.

Superb work. Looking great. Very impressed with the hood vent work.

Yes sir, I’d say you’re on to something. Nice work. This shows real promise. There’s a lot of possibilities with this stuff; door cards, convertible boots, tonneau covers, to name a few. I’m intrigued buy your method of soaking the leather in the glue solution. Did this have an effect on the final appearance of of the ‘pretty side’ when all was dry? How well did the leather pieces stay together when prying it away from the seat frame?

Looks good up on it’s wheels.

Looks good. It’s coming along nicely. I enjoyed the video, and appreciate that it must be difficult to build the model in such a way that you can record it. Nice work.

Cool! Never knew this existed. I’d like to see a reissue of that as well. Is the chain part of the kit?

Very nice custom work. Cool style, and a perfect name.

The Revell ‘53 & ‘54 Chevys have a tool set with a decent set of vise grips.

Nice paint. Wheel choice looks good.

BMF would be your best bet. I never tried painting over Molotow. Not sure how stable the surface is, but I would give it lots of time to cure (a few days), then try a clear red or clear orange over it without working it too much. Definitely try it on scrap parts first.

Very nicely built. You did a great job on this. One of the nicest looking Turbine builds I've seen. Yes, I believe this to be JoHan's finest offering, though a bit finicky. In 1978 I was 12 years old, and just got my hands on my first Auto World catalogue. This was the first time I had heard of JoHan kits. In this far flung part of the world I live in, no one carried JoHan models. I was curious about them and their 'off the beaten path' subjects. The Chrysler Turbine seemed a cool car, so I ordered the kit. When it arrived I immediately declared JoHan kits to be the most awesomely detailed and intricate kits available (haha, clearly I needed more data points). I was very impressed, though I didn't really do the kit justice, and eventually cut the top off and made it a convertible (ahh, the innocence of youth). In later years, after owning more JoHan kits and re-evaluating them in terms of outright detail, I remained curious about why this kit in particular was engineered so much differently than their typical kits. Presumably Chrysler had a lot of input in the designing of this kit, and likely funded it for promotional purposes as well, though I don't know any of this for certain. I've been looking to get my hands on another one and perhaps do it proper justice next time around.

Cool rod. Digging the Fronty.

Fantastic Caddy. Perfect colour. Well done.