Johan '68 Plymouth Fury I

[Terry Jessee]

I built this old warrior in 1984. It showed up in a story in Scale Modeler in the spring of '85.

I did a lot of work on the light bar, adding lenses and doing all kinds of extras on the lights.

This is an original, metal axle kit from about 1980.

Terry

[Danno]

Nice.

[slusher]

Great looking build. I have been wanting this kit...

[Guest]

Beautiful!

[peekay]

Fantastic job on a favourite kit! That light bar is the icing on the cake.

[PappyD340]

Very NICE Terry!

[Helix]

Nice job Terry, I like the old school cruisers

[espo]

Great looking cruiser.

[Lunajammer]

Probably the most authentic looking version of this I've seen.

[S. Svendsen]

So cool. Your work was also inspiring.

[migace]

Terry back in the early 80's did they have BMF?

I see it on your car there, when did that stuff come out, funny that he basically has a monopoly on that unless you want to spray alclad.

Very nice model BTW

Edited December 17, 2013 by migace

[Terry Jessee]

Early '70s. Originally it started showing up on model aircraft. Then Wayne Moyer used it on a 1/43 scale car model in a story for, I think, Scale Modeler. I first saw it in 1975 in Car Classics in a story that Dennis Doty did on building a '65 Rambler Marlin (that model is at the Model Car Museum in Salt Lake and still looks good almost 40 years later).

Eldred Mason really hasn't had a monopoly. He just put out the best stuff. Other people have released similar products but the foil is always too thick and doesn't work as well. The foil that Baremetal uses is micro-thin. I still use the original. Even Baremetal's Ultrachrome is too thick for my tastes, so I've never used any of the other products--just the original.

And thank you.

Terry

[migace]

I guess all the others are so poor I never see a competitor sold next to BMF. Thank you for the answer I knew you would have a nice explanation!

[Harry P.]

Beautiful model.

[bbowser]

Great old cruiser!

[Greg Cullinan]

Held up nice. Great model.

[charlie8575]

Makes me want to get mine built.

Very nice, Terry.

Charlie Larkin