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New 1:43rd painted resin kit
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TVR
Tuscan 400R Sebring 2005 - Painted kit
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£41.00
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When this car was
announced we were interested to see how PMA suggest that the builder
tackle the two-tone paint finish, especially as
both are very difficult colours to match. The answer is simple,
both colours have been painted for you with a neat fade through
between them. The latter looks like they have cheated slightly
but the overall effect works well. The level of paint finish is
excellent and the kit will make for a relatively simple build.
Although two cars ran in these colours at Sebring, only the #40
car is offered on the decals. One reason for this could be that
the sister car had a fade-through paint finish on the mirrors too,
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New 1:32nd resin kit
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scale releases that we've seen from Marsh in their Aerotech range
are all drawing board projects, but their 1:32nd releases are
dedicated to successful racing and speed record machines. The Supermarine
S6B won the Schneider Trophy in 1931, the third successive race that
Britain won with Supermarine machinery and gained permanent ownership
of the trophy, and a few days later it became the first aircraft
to exceed 400 mp/h setting an outright World Speed Record of 407.5mp/h.
The kit is relatively simple and is very well thought out and a quick
measure shows that the dimensions are pretty accurate. The main fuselage,
float and wing castings are very large and will need careful cleaning
up and there are then a number of smaller, cleaner resin and metal
castings for ailerons, the rudder and the float struts. It is suggested
that the beaching trolley be built first to use as a jig to align
the floats and the photo-etched frets include the spokes for the
wire wheels on this, various cockpit details and the bracing wires
that kept the whole thing rigid. Something a little different to
the machinery that we usually see, but historically significant nonetheless
and it will look very impressive once completed. |
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New 1:43rd hand built
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Also available MRCOC016B - yellow & MRCOCK016 - kit
MR Collection are more than a little out of sequence with this range
in terms of releases, but we really can't blame them for jumping
the queue with Ferrari's new F430. The model captures the lines of
this pretty little road rocket very well indeed and the detailing
is excellent. Both doors, the front luggage area and the rear engine
hatch open to reveal plenty of accurate looking detail. The front
and rear sections even have telescopic supports, just like the real
car. The level of finish is, as usual from MRC, excellent too and
it all adds up to an exquisite miniature of a desirable machine. |
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Ferrari by Mailander, by Karl
Ludvigsen, weight 3.6 kg
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£65.00
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 Among Karl Ludgivsen's extensive archives lives the photographic
collection of his good friend and colleague, Italo-German photo journalist
Rudolfo Mailander. The two spent considerable time poring over this
collection and the end result is this superb slip cased record of
Ferraris during the early 1950s, whether involved in Grand Prix,
sports car racing or just road use. One of Mailander's particular
talents was picking up on the small detail changes which took place
race by race and his Leica was always ready to capture these changes.
There are also a great many driver portraits and general shots which
capture the atmosphere of the race meetings superbly.
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