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| Carbone |
| Carbone
New 1:43rd resin and metal hand built models |
| CAR4318M
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Ferrari CR25 Pininfarina
1974 White
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£118.15
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| CAR4318MR
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Ferrari CR25 Pininfarina
1974 Red
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£118.15
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Pininfarina's CR25 project took its name from the incredibly low drag
coefficient of resistance of just 0.25.
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For the project the company assumed they would build the car on Ferrari
components as what else would an Italian specialist GT car be based
on? The large orange coloured triangle on the rear flank was an air
brake and the rather odd high front bumper apparently doubled as a
spoiler. Carbone have captured the shape of this brave concept car
superbly with some very fine p/e detailing, a well detailed interior
and an excellent paint finish. The panel engraving around the popup
headlights could be crisper but otherwise our (white) review sample
was excellent. We love it, one of our Models of the Month.
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| Carlo Brianza |
| Abc/Brianza New 1:43rd resin and metal kit |
| BRK43120
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Ferrari Pinin 4 Door Turin 1980 Kit
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£42.50
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Designed
as part of their 50th anniversary the Pininfarina company came up
with something really special, a four door Ferrari!
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Powered
by a frontmounted Boxer engine driving the rear wheels, this car was
a real techfest and good looking too. ABC have captured the lines
of this elegant machine superbly and great thought has obviously gone
into how to model some of the unusual features. For example the p/e
frame for the side windows and front 'screen is one piece which wraps
all the way around. At first this looked very complex but on closer
inspection there is a recessed mounting lip, which will allow the
p/e and flat acetate to simulate the flush glazing superbly. This
should actually work out easier than just fitting the curved 'screen
as there is a much larger contact surface (the full length of the
side windows) to fix the parts to. The interior casting on our review
kit was very thin by the rear wheel arches, though this should be
hidden by the rear seats and thus be no problem. An excellent kit
that should look superb when built and will add interest to any Ferrari
collection.
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| Scale
Designs |
| Scale Designs New 1:24th resin transkit |
| SCDTK010
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Alfa Romeo GTAM 1970/71 1:24 Transkit
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£64.70
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Intended
for use with Tamiyaþs Alfa GTA plastic kit as a base, this excellent
transkit offers three options. From Zandvoort 1970 the orange #26
car of Hezemans or the red #25 of (we think) Picchi and from the Spa
24hrs the orange 3rd placed car of Hezemans and Facetti.
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The
resin body is very well cast, as are the resin ancillary parts, though
there is a large feedtag in the inside of the roof, which may be
a bit fiddly to remove. There are p/e parts included for window frames,
wipers, seat belt hardware and sundry other items. With the clear
instructions and decal placement drawing these should be a joy to
build and will look great just be careful with that feed tag.
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| DMC
Decals |
| DMC New 1:43rd, and 1:18th decals |
| DMC18009
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Lamborghini Countach JGTC
Wolf Decals 1:18
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£6.00
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| DMC18019
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Ferrari F355 Cup Slush
Puppie Decals 1:18
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£6.00
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| DMC1043013
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Porsche 911 1st Spa 1967
Decals
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£3.00
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| DMC1043024
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Porsche Carrera RSR 1st
Sebring Decals
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£5.00
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Four fairly well printed decal sets to convert diecasts or (in the case of the last two) 1:43 kits. All except the Countach have a photograph included to aid decal placement. The Ferrari is particularly colourful.
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| Mini
Racing |
| Mini Racing
- New 1:43rd resin kits |
| MRA424
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Datsun Violet 1st Safari 1980
Kit
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£28.90
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| MRA445
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Talbot Sunbeam Lotus RAC 1982
#6/13 Kit
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£28.00
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| MRA410
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Saab 99 Sweden 1982 #6 Eklund
Kit
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£28.00
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| MRA455
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Alpine GTA V6 Europa Cup 88
Lui Kit
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£28.00
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| MRA459
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De Cadenet Le Mans 1981 Belga
Kit
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£28.00
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| MRA5601
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Large Roof Rack For Vans (Rally
Style) Kit
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£15.50
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Most
of this batch are new versions of previously released models and we
have grown used to Mini Racing getting most from their master models
- but who can blame them. The kits are well cast, accurate and fairly
simple and by creating many versions of the same basic model collectors
are offered colourful, and often obscure, subjects at a relatively
low price. Colour photos of all the kits can be seen on the centre
pages of FSW 8-2001.
The roof rack set consists of a large p/e roof rack and numerous accessories
to put on it. There are four sets of wrapped tyres and a choice of
three wheel styles to fit in the end (giving the impression of complete
sets of wheels and tyres), various tools including snow shovels and
what looks like an electrical cable extension and two spare front
bumpers which we think are for a Renault 11 but we are not sure! |
| Speed
Line |
| Speedline - New 1:24th decals and resin accessory |
| SPD026
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Porsche GT3 Carrera Cup 2000
'Infineon' decal
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£8.95
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| SPD027
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Porsche GT3 Carrera Cup 2000
'Escmann' decal
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£8.95
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| SPD030
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F1 Cigarette decals
1:24th
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£8.95
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| SPD052
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Porsche 962 Le Mans 1986
'Fortuna' decal
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£8.95
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| SPDRP004
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Porsche 962 large air
intake
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£5.35
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With the vast number of colourful
cars and star drivers in the Porsche Cup it is surprising we havenít
had many decals of them before.
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coloured, Infineon sponsored car was driven by various drivers and
the options are offered here for Andretti, Werner or Peter. The rather
plain blue Eschmann Stahl backed car was driven by series winner Huisman
and there is an option of building the sister car of Maylander. The
Fortuna 962 finished 2nd at Le Mans and this sheet is again intended
for the Tamiya kit. The long resin air intake is also for the Tamiya
kit and is necessary for many of the IMSA spec cars. Intended for
Revell kits, the tobacco decals include Marlboro, Benson and Hedges,
West and Rothmans and this large sheet would also be useful as a general
sheet. All of these decals are superbly drawn by UMI and printed by
Cartograf. The full livery sets contain full colour placement drawings. |
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