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| Seasons Greetings | Rare kits | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 We
would like to wish all of our readers a happy Christmas and a healthy,
peaceful and prosperous New Year. GPM will be closed from
1pm Monday December 23rd until January 2nd. You can still email and
fax us or order via our website, which will be kept updated. On our
return we will catch up as fast as possible. Don’t forget we will
be open on Saturday December 21st for those last minute supplies to keep you going over the festive period! Our showroom opening hours will be the usual 12 noon - 5pm. Our open Saturdays in 2003 and the following Mondays when we are not here will be:
Limited editions Axel’R
are continuing with their search for unusual sports car subjects and
are soon to offer a very limited edition hand built of the Elva Mk8
driven by Chris Amon in the 1965 Tourist Trophy.Only 40 will be made, half
for Elva Racing Components and the other 20 numbered pieces for you
if you’re fast enough! Amon qualified the historic Team McLaren
run car in 7th place at Oulton Park and during practice broke Jim
Clark’s outright lap record and took over six seconds off the
sports car record! Order now for this rare piece, ref VHCK022M.1:12th F50! Just
as we were closing for press we learned of Tamiya’s latest exciting
project. A 1:12th scale model of the Ferrari F50 will be produced
with a high level of detail visible through opening panels. The model
will come semi-assembled with most of the hard work done and will
be a limited edition so hurry if you don’t want to miss out.
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| 2002 Bentley goes 1:24th |
| Rumours
have been circulating for some time that Le Mans Miniatures might
be producing the Bentley EXP Speed 8 as a resin kit. It’s true.
Due very soon, the kit will be to the usual high quality of parts
we expect from LMM. Available either in plain resin (LMM4068) or pre-painted
(LMM4068PP) the kit will feature an opening door to show off the interior
detail and should make a spectacular model of the 2002 Le Mans class-winner.In addition to the Bentley,
LMM are also hard at work on several Porsche 917s from the 1970 race,
including two long-tails and the Gulf-Wyer short-tailed machines.
The latter will feature open drivers side doors and a figure. |
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| Following
an exciting season in the World Rally Championship, which finished
with a real cliff-hanger featuring two of the sports rising stars
on Rally GB, there are lots of new models in the pipeline..... Racing
43 have announced that they will be making Solberg’s winning
Subaru from Britain, as well as the ‘RS’ Focus used by Duval
and Martin this season and the works cars of McRae and Sainz from
Kenya..... Tamiya are also joining in with 1:24th plastic kits of
the 2002 Subaru, Peugeot and Mitsubishi..... still in 1:24th scale
BBR are producing limited edition kits (100 each) of the JMB Ferrari
360 from Le Mans..... K&R Replicas are reworking their 1951 C
Type to include more detail and it will now have a metal body instead
of resin...... Marsh Models say that their Shadow DN4 and ‘Mornin
Afta’ Autocoast Ti22 are imminent..... also expected by the end
of the year is Scale Racing Cars’ Brabham BT49...... Competition
43 are on a serious Jagermeister binge with models coming of a 1978
Camaro, 1981 Kremer K4 and Opel Commodore among other orange subjects....
Starter are producing hand built versions of several more 2002 Le
Mans cars including the spectacular looking Morgan..... MCM should
soon have available kits and hand builts of the 1934 Le Mans Rileys
and 1923 Bugatti T23.... Provence Moulage are continuing their range
of hand built CPA subjects with a Pegaso, 2 Gordinis and Jaguar C
type among others, they are also giving the high detail superkit treatment
to the 1978 Le Mans winning Renault A442B..... the official ACO Le
Mans annual is due any day and the price will be less than previous
years at £35 (post free UK)..... great news for European race
fans, we may have lost Rockingham and Lausitz from the CART calendar
next year, but they’ll be racing at Spa, Brands Hatch and Estoril
GP circuits instead.... |