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| Inspection of the kit parts reveal
two small recesses on the front of the #36 car that are not visible
in most photos, but on one black and white image there they are. This
is great attention to detail that could so easily have been missed.
Overall the kits are well cast with a good level of p/e detail and
pretty good instructions. The decals are clearly printed and include
the white and yellow sections of the livery so only a single body
colour is required. These aren't the simplest kits to build but the
results are well worth the effort. |
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| The 250Fs (and Renaissance's
older subjects in general) are somewhat simpler but again the various
lumps, bumps and vents are carefully observed. Decals are included
in the kit for Rosier's 9th placed car from the Belgian GP and Schell's
1954 Spanish GP entry from Barcelona, an event he briefly led before
retiring from the race. We've seen several hand built versions of the 250F from Renaissance before and these, like those previously, are very well finished. |
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| Moss won the Goodwood
race and finished 10th in Italy, while Roy Salvadori retired from
the French GP in his green Gilby Engineering car. One small detail
that isn't quite right on the Moss cars is his lucky horseshoe on
the right hand side of the cockpit is somewhat oversized. Otherwise
they're very good indeed. |
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| The Ferrari P2 prototype is particularly well cast and will be another simple build except that the car had an unpainted aluminium body. The kit instructions help here and suggest a technique of painting this rough alloy finish with silver Humbrol and then dry-brushing with a matt metal finish. |  |
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| We've seen other
Renaissance cars with exposed metalwork in the past and this technique
seems to work. You could also try Alclad Aluminium paint (ALC001)
but this might actually give too smooth a finish! There have already been several versions of Renaissance's 1:24th Porsche SCRS and this latest offers Toivonen's Ypres rally winner. The kit features an open driver's door and engine cover which reveals a detailed engine with finely cast cooling fins on the piston barrels. The decals are very clearly printed and include the red and gold sponsors stripes to separate the two-tone blue and white paint . |
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| The Ferrari transkits include
a full resin body, wheels, spoilers and decals along with a few small
detailing parts and are intended to convert the Tamiya 360 road car
(TAM24228). The end result should be a very attractive model, especially
the silver #95 car which was one of our favourites (visually!) in
the 2003 race. The rally car decal sets are well printed and use a combination of real car photos and colour drawings to illustrate decal placement. |
  
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| The blue and yellow Impreza of Snijers is particularly attractive and there are small pieces of pre-cut Baremetal foil included for the chrome highlights. Finally the Focus upgrade parts consist of a resin bonnet and roof vents and small p/e grilles to update the Tamiya kits to the late 2002/early 2003 specification. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| After a fair amount of digging
in the library we are pleased to tell you that 'Tony' won the Valli
Piacentine rally, ably supported by Mannini in the Lancia Concessionaires
backed machine. The kit is typical of Racing 43 with a well cast and
proportioned bodyshell and very fine white metal ancillaries. The
front vent panel ahead of the windscreen is supplied as a p/e insert
and the various p/e details include pre-coloured lights. |
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| All in all this
will build with relative ease and be a fine looking model. You may recall the (now deleted) high detail Stratos kit released by Make Up a few months ago and produced in association with Racing 43. Drawing on this experience R43 have produced their own excellent high detail kit. The doors and front bodywork are fixed but the rear opens to reveal a fully detailed engine bay and rear suspension, while the front suspension is also more complex than the standard kits. The large decal sheet offers 11 options ranging from the 1976 Monte winner to the 4th placed 1977 Sanremo car, all wearing the classic Alitalia livery. Don't miss out this time! The set of five 1:24th low profile tarmac rally tyres have the tiniest of feed tags to remove and with a little gentle buffing will look excellent. |
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| One area in which Heco are rarely
faulted is on the standard of finish and presentation of their models
and these are no exception. Fangio's Mille Miglia 290MM is mounted
on a large mirror edged base with a montage of atmospheric period
photos as a background. With two views of the car included in this
scene it is amazing that the placement of several decals is way off.
The T4s have no such obvious errors and are generally very well finished. |
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| There's a reasonable level of detail and both make pleasing displays. The Villeneuve car is mounted on a very tasteful black wooden base with a map of the circuit alongside, while the two car gift set has Villeneuve's car mounted alongside Scheckter's winning machine on a mirror edged base with a cutaway drawing of the 312 engine as a backdrop. | ||||||||||
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| Fast but fragile probably best describes the pretty MG-Lola prototypes which ran at Le Mans in 2001 but they certainly generated plenty of publicity for the MG marque which is why motor manufacturers go racing in the first place. |  |
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| This kit captures the basic shape of these cars very well with a cleanly cast resin body and a mixture of white metal and fine p/e ancillaries. A two-tone paint finish is required for the metallic grey and fluorescent green livery and colours are suggested for both, though the black and white drawing isn't totally clear about the masking lines. It will be interesting to see how this one comes out but with careful reference to race photos in Automodelisme (AUTO) the end result will be a fine miniature. | ||||||||||
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