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Racing
43 are providing plenty to keep even the busiest rally car modeller
occupied this month. As usual from Racing 43 the kits are very cleanly
cast, with just small feed tags to remove and a little surface preparation
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| The decals are clearly printed but in several cases it will be necessary to apply two colour paint finishes. On the Focus, in addition to white, the rear metallic blue colour will need matching to the decal sheet and the join line then covered with the Martini racing flashes. . | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The Puntos are both versions of the same car and finished in a two tone white and Fiat dark blue, in fact as far as we could see the only differences on these two kits are the tyres and some of the minor decoration. |  |
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| The white roof of the
Xsara will also need masking from the main red body colour and careful
masking will also be required for the vivid orange and white Marlboro
backed Lancia. The Focus and 2002 works 206 were winners, with the latter leading home the first 1-2-3 team finish on the WRC for 6 years. The other World Rally Cars finished in points positions and Caldani was 2nd in class on the Monte in his 206 kitcar. Andreucci won the S1600 class of the Italian championship with the Punto and Pedro Giego finished 8th on his home event in 1992. If you’re looking to add a little detail to die-cast or plastic kits, or are looking for additional parts for dioramas then the accessory parts will prove very handy. The 1:24th wheel fans are photo-etched while all of the other parts (apart from the tyres!) are white metal. |
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| The flood of Ferrari 126C2’s continues. As with other versions that we’ve seen recently from Tron the basic shapes look pretty good on the easy to build kits and a modest amount of p/e detailing is included for suspension, ground-effect skirts etc. |  |
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| The resin castings
will need a little cleaning and on the Press/test kit careful attention
will need to be paid to ensure the correct wing configurations for
the version you require. The built models are generally well finished
with excellent paint and some well applied fine detailing. The rear
wings are neatly covered with metal foil to replicate the polished
aluminium finish but searching through the kit contents we couldn’t
find any., so into the spares box for some Baremetal foil (BMF). |
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| The Alfa Romeo kit is cleanly
cast in all of the visible areas, with the only bubbles hidden by
the large bumper units. This is a very simple kit with much of the
interior detail moulded in but no interior door panels . It will make
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| We can usually rely on Scala
43 for visually spectacular subjects but rarely do three such extreme
and different machines arrive together. Kits of the Alfa and BMW have
been reviewed previously in FSW (09/2002 & 01/2003) and both subjects
have appeared as cover cars. The builds are pretty much to Scala’s
usual high standards though there is the odd small paint blemish here
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| With many manufacturers we wouldn’t
comment but Scala builts are normally so good this is unusual. This
doesn’t make these models any less desirable and the ultra-fine
metallic finish to the Alfa is particularly impressive. At first we
didn’t even realise it was metallic but catch the light at the
right angle and if you’re looking closely enough it shows up.
Well done folks! We don’t know what the car achieved and frankly
don’t care, because it looks great! And so does the Schnitzer
prepared BMW as raced by Ludwig and Ertl at Kyalami. The detailing
on this model is very neatly applied and this is a must for BMW collectors
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| Finally we have the monstrous Audi 200 which dominated the TransAm series. On our review model there was some colour bleed through the brown stripes on one flank so for those who are waiting for the kits, be careful when applying the decoration. |  |
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| When we looked at the, BBR based, kit of this model in FSW 07/2002 we noted that the number plate decals were missing although they did feature on the instructions. |  |
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| Well, they’ve left them off the model too. First impressions of the built model are good but look a little closer and while the paint and applied decals are good some of the p/e detailing is less so. The front and rear windscreen frames are not particularly neat and the trim around the front radiator opening is a completely different shape to the hole and not even mounted in the middle. Between them BBR and Arena could (and should) do better. | ||||||||||
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| Well, what can we say? Two more
very accurate looking Lamborghini Diablo’s from MRC which are,
as ever, beautifully finished. The detail differences large and small
have been carefully observed and it is interesting to see how much
Lamborghini’s flagship model has developed over the years. The
paint finishes on both models are flawless and the metallic flakes
on the yellow 2001 6 litre car are particularly fine. |
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| This model was originally listed by MRC and ourselves as silver but MRC have chosen to change the colour without warning. This is not unusual and as a result we cannot always guarantee that backorders will be the same colours when they arrive. Whatever colour these models are finished in, they are always very carefully assembled and look great anyway! | ||||||||||
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