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	It's a bumper one! New GPM web site At 32 pages - this edition of FSW is larger than usual but one section - 'Arrivals' - is smaller. The reason for the increase in size is simple - we publish ten times a year - many model creators like Provence Moulage release new models twelve times a year. We therefore get a backlog of models to review and decided this month to play 'catch-up' and review just about everything that had arrived to make sure that you are - as far as possible - up to date. That's why the 'Arrivals' page is smaller than usual and why in turn there are many more pages of reviews. And - because we stole some pages for photos of all the 24-Hours of Le Mans cars we've squeezed more new model photos on to other pages by making them - just for this month - slightly smaller. We hope you enjoy this bumper edition. And - within the fact that we needed to devote many more pages to reviews this month - there is a message for the dismal jimmies within our hobby who are fond of saying that things are not what they were. We are receiving more quality new kits and hand builts from more makers than ever before and more new creators are joining the hobby than we can remember. Our hobby is growing - that's something to shout out loud about! GPM's site is the world's most visited web model venue - we're hoping that when completed it will continue to earn that degree of popularity. The full development will however take some months - years even - longer because the adding of model photographs is a long and somewhat slow process. This ongoing process will continue of course with the site in 'live' format - please bear with us if the model photo you want is not there to start with. We're dependent to a certain extent on manufacturers supplying us with photos of their complete ranges and in some cases they are having to start from scratch and photograph everything they have made! And here's a memo to all our model manufacturer readers. If you have not yet sent us photos of your range for the web site please do it now. We can accept them either as photographic prints - which we then scan - or as scanned images recorded on a CD. If you are scanning them for us please do so at a resolution of 72dpi That's for the web - (300 dpi for FSW!) and save them in jpg format. And please remember to give each one the same file name as the model's catalogue number. We can of course also accept these 'web' files within emails but please remember to keep their volume small to speed transmission time. line by line Among new subjects being worked on at BBR are the exciting Prodrive developed FIA GT race 360 Modena and the new Maserati 3200 GT spider.....enthusiasts for British rally cars wil be pleased to know that Tony Pond's Talbot Lotus from the San Remo of 1979 is among new releases to come from Mini Racing. Also in their latest schedule is the Sauber Ford SHS C6 Ford BASF which ran at Le Mans in 1982.....Profil 24 are working on a whole series of 1:24th scale Porsche 962Cs including the Le Mans Rothmans cars of 1985 to 1987.....respected author David Hodges has compiled a new 'A - Z of Grand Prix Cars' which is to be pubished shortly......another new book we feel sure will be added to our library is the new history of the RAC Rally by Max Le Grand - we really need it. Now will someone please do a comprehensive book on the Monte Carlo Rally?	This was 'our' car for Le Mans 2001 - it's a Porsche 911 GT3-R which was driven by long-time GPM supported driver Robin Donovan (see inset photo) together with Chris McAllister and Terry Lingner. The team was put together by Spanish Royal family member Alfonso de Orleans-Borbon and during the build up to the race HRH Juan Carlos - King of Spain - together with the Crown Prince - visited the team to check on progress and wish them luck. Sponsors - apart from GPM and Provence Moulage - included FATurbo, Hawaiian Tropic and several others. There's a colour shot (by Gordon Dawkins - as are all our great LM shots) of the car at the top of our cover and another on the centre pages. In the early stages the car was doing well and had not the torrential rain - a spin and a trip into the 'wall' - intervened a good finish would probably have been the result. GPM's André Marot and PM's Patrick Cornu (on the left of the shot here) were members of the team for the week and whilst André actually decalled the full-size race car (without Solvaset!) Patrick managed to research every car on the grid. The result of those researches will be that PM will model every car from the race with the first kits becoming available probably within one month. And the 'GPM car' - the one above that carried our (your!) hopes - is the subject of a special offer - which goes like this. For subscribing to FSW and thus helping to sponsor this car GPM can offer you the reward of the kit of the car at the very special price of £20 if you order before the 31st July 2001. We don't however yet know the delivery date but it should be quite soon......