WEEKLY NEWS

We’ve had a few very busy weeks and so this week there’s a slight lull, but we still have an interesting selection for you. We’ll start with the larger scales and from Hobby Design we see many detailing sets from relatively simple etched sets for Revell and Fujimi kits to a comprehensive transkit to convert Tamiya’s Porsche Carrera GT into a Gemballa Mirage. There are new plastic kits from Fujimi with Fiat Abarth, Ferrari and BMW subjects and more plastic kits from Aoshima include and AMG Mercedes and fabulous looking Group 5 Nissan Skyline.

In 1:43rd there is the first of two Mors kits from Mach One Models. This one offers the 1902 land speed record winner and there are Grand Prix versions coming. From Luxcar there is a new hand built Bugatti subject, a smart Type 49 cabriolet and LP Creation have produced two more of their hand painted wooden body formers, both representing iconic sports racers, the 1958 Ferrari 250TR and the Maserati ‘Birdcage’.

There are plenty of die-casts this week, with Mattel Hotwheels Elite taking a slight diversion from the usual Ferraris with the addition of Lamborghini. From Minichamps we see F1, Le Mans and touring car subjects. Reve Collection (made by Spark) continue their Tyrrell history with two more versions of the P34 and from Spark there is a typical amount of variety, with an Abarth road car, a number of F1 cars and Le Mans subjects classic and modern including this fabulous looking Lola-Judd.

This weekend of course sees the start of the F1 season and things are going to be very interesting indeed. First free practice suggests that the new teams may struggle a little but we’ll know for sure in qualifying on Saturday and the race on Sunday. With at least six drivers with a serious chance of the title at the start of the season, plus a few wild cards, we can’t wait for it to all get started on Sunday.

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Once again we have updated the March Future Production. There's a fantastic triple disc CD-ROM of race car images coming from Autosport Marketing titled 'The Speed Merchants Collection'... BBR have announced a few more variations of previous models with a two tone blue 599GTB, dirty spec Dunlop sponsored F430 but fresh and new will be a limited run of the Geneva 2010 show Ferrari 599HY-KERS in metallic acid green... Since last week Bizarre have announced reissues of many popular subjects so if you missed them first time around here's your chance to correct that now... As well as the Rolls mentioned last week, Carbone Chromes are looking to send us their Delahaye 175 Coupe by Figoni and Falaschi soon... We have added a great list of new book titles including a proposed series of an 8 volume pictoral history titled "Le Mans 24 Hours 1960 - 1969, The Photographic History", there's the third in the great WSC Giants series "Gulf Mirage" and then "Lister Jaguar, Brian Lister and the Cars from Cambridge" amongst many others... MG Model have added another couple of Ferraris in their 1:43 scale hand built range and one is the 512BB Ferrarelle 'bubbles' decoration... Minichamps have updated us with their next releases which will include the 1:18 Le Mans 2009 Peugeot 908s... Look Smart have been quick with announcing the latest Lamborghini shown off in Geneva with four colour choices of the Gallardo LP570-4 Superleggera... If the recently released Jagaur E2A hand built models were out of your price range then fear not. Pinko have just announced both the white race and silver test cars from Le Mans 1960... There are more race transporters coming from Premium Classixxs as well as racing Borgward RS1500s and the Porsche T64 Berlin-Rome... For plastic kit builders Revell have surprised us by announcing 1:24 kits of the 2010 F1 cars namely McLaren, Mercedes and Ferrari. They are also going to release the gorgeous Mercedes SLS... The next short term Spark planning is now listed with the addition of a third subject in the Bianti range, the Peter Brock BMW CSL from Le Mans 1976... New DVD titles are listed with a high lights of the "Dakar 2010"...

To keep yourself completely up to date visit the Future Production list regularly as there is a constant flow of additional products which all qualify for our 5% online pre-order discount off the price and with daily deliveries here at GPM you can keep yourself up to date with what's newly arrived by book marking the Arrivals section.