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| Tamiya
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| New 1:24th scale kits - samples only arrived |
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TAM24233
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Porsche 962C - Shell Dunlop
Norisring 1987
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£17.00
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TAM24232
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Porsche 956 - #14 Canon Le Mans
1985
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£17.00
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TAM24234
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Mercedes Benz CLK - DTM2000
- Schneider
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£20.00
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almost goes without saying that these models not only look fairly
accurate and - with the exception of the 962C - capture the line and
feel of the full-size cars. They are also superbly made with a wonderful
level of precise detailing. The Shell-Dunlop car has good detailing
with full suspension, a comprehensive cockpit and a fairly good engine
bay which will benefit from the addition of more wiring and piping.
Decals are included for the Le Mans 1988 #17,18 & 19 which means that
you have a wide driver choice - Bell, Stuck and Ludwig drove #17 which
finished a superb 2nd, Andretti (father and son) drove #19 with John
Andretti (they finished 6th) and Wollek, van der Merwe and Schuppan
drove #18 which didn't finish.
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there's a problem - the bodyshell provided is that of the short-tail
962C #17 Shell car which ran at the Norisring in 1987 driven by Stuck
and Bell and pictured on the box artwork. Quite what Tamiya are doing
putting the LM decals in this kit we're not sure...... The Canon sponsored
956 is to our eyes a much better kit with a far higher level of detail
and a lift off tail section whereas the 962C is a one piece body.
The Canon car was driven by Palmer, Weaver and Lloyd and finished
a superb 2nd overall. The DTM Mercedes looks superb and has a fully
detailed V8 engine bay and lift off bonnet. This kit will be the most
interesting of the three to build. Note - Studio 27 have announced
a whole raft of transkits and decals for the 962C and 956 and it will
be possible using these to create many fascinating different versions.
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| Gecko
Graphics |
| Gecko Graphics - New 1:24th and 1:25th scale decal sets |
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GGG001
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'Reebok' Top fuel dragster -
Cristen Powell - 1:25th
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£7.50
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GGG003
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Toyota Corolla WRC Sweden 2000
- Radstrom - 1:24th
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£7.50
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GGG004
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Ford Focus WRC Rally GB 2000
- Mallory - 1:24th
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£7.50
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GGG005
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Mits. Lancer Ev5 GpN Sweden
01 ' Blue Peter'-1:24th
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£7.50
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GGG006
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Mitsubishi Lancer Ev6 Sweden
01 - Radstrom-1:24th
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£7.50
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| Gecko are a new name to the decal
market and some of the existing players would do very well to take
note. These sheets are all superb! The artwork is very comprehensive
including drivers I.D cards and even pace notes for the Corolla and
Focus. Not only are there very fine details included but they can
be read so fine is the (Cartograph) printing! |
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instructions are a lesson to most makers with clear placement drawings,
notes on how the vehicles performed and a list of related websites
to aid with additional reference material. For the record teenager
Cristen Powell took her blue and white Reebok sponsored dragster to
the semi-finals at the Winston finals meeting in 1997, Radstrom and
Thorner finished 4th in Sweden with the Corolla and 2nd the following
year with the Lancer. With the elegant two tone blue and white Focus
Penny Mallory was the first woman to drive a WRC car on a World Championship
event while children's TV presenter Konnie Huq eventually got to co-drive
the Mitsubishi in Sweden this year after failing to get a license
in time for the 2000 Rally GB. |
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| Tenariv
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| New & reissue
1:43rd kits |
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TEN121
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Matra MS11 - 2nd Dutch GP 1968
- Beltoise
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£25.25
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TEN284
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Matra MS11 - 9th French GP 1968
- Beltoise
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£25.25
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TEN285
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Matra MS11 - 5th Italian GP
1968 - Beltoise
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£25.25
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Reissues...........
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TEN022
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Ligier JS17 - Monaco GP 1981
- Jabouille/Laffite
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£25.25
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TEN089
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Matra MS120-French GP '70-Pescarolo/Beltoise
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£25.25
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TEN107
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Matra MS120B - French GP '71
- Amon/Beltoise
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£25.25
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TEN110
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Matra MS120C - Monaco GP '72
- Amon
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£25.25
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TEN111
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Matra MS120D - French GP '72
- Amon
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£25.25
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TEN128
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Matra MS120B - Monaco GP '71
- Amon/Beltoise
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£25.25
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TEN129
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Matra MS120B - Italian GP '71
- Amon
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£25.25
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TEN279A
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LigierJS17 - Zeltweg 1981 -
Lafitte/Tambay
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£25.25
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TEN279B
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Ligier JS17 - Canadian GP 1981-Lafitte/Tambay
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£25.25
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Jean-Pierre Viranet
(Tenariv is an anagram of the surname!) does not make so many kits
these days but those he does make are distinguished by quality, accuracy,
good detailing, high quality fabrication and close attention to the
minutae of F1 history. His new kits - the top three here - are perfect
examples of those facts. Made in his usual style of a resin body and
chassis into which a great deal of the detail (engine block and transaxle
etc) is moulded integrally and with good cast metal ancillaries -
suspension - exhausts - radiators - dash panel - wings etc - these
models (with simple fettling work) build to look every bit as good
as similar high-tech productions by the likes of Tameo.
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that they look more simple in the boxes should not be allowed to put
you off. See the colour photos of his recent production both in this
edition and FSW 5-2001 for evidence. Of the historic detail factor
J-P specialises in finding the small detail changes that teams make
one race to another in their constant search for performance, and
then modelling them. You have to study his releases side by side to
find the differences but they are there - finely modelled and making
them a three-dimensional development history of the cars in question.
The three new releases pictured here are a good example - they are
all from the same season - study them and you'll find that they are
all different! The only criticism we have of these kits is that the
configuration of the tyres is less than convincing. The change from
flat road surface to sidewall is far too abrupt and the tyres have
no gentle' shoulder as they should have - see lower photo of the Beltoise
car at the Dutch GP for proof. There may be suitable alternatives
in the range of tyres that MG Models make and you also need to look
among aftermarket decals by Marsh and Virage for the tyre sidewall
decals that most of these cars should have and which Tenariv do not
(strangely) include within the kits. The reissue kits detailed above
have all been vastly improved from the original releases in that the
metal castings appear cleaner and more crisp and the instructions
are now far more helpful and have full colour illustrations - these
mostly include shots of the built model. Footnote - photos of the
reissue models listed here should appear within our new web site providing
that we can locate them in old issues of FSW and then scan them for
the web. |
| Carlo
Brianza |
| ABC/Brianza - New 143rd resin
hand built model |
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ABC128
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OSCA 2500GT Zagato 1988
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£130.20
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about this very aggressive looking design study other than it is based
on Subaru mechanical parts and I (MC) want one! The model is very
well finished in an unusual metallic red with an excellent paint finish
and carefully applied detailing. The front air intake looks a little
odd but as we can find no picture of the real car we will have to
give ABC the benefit of the doubt - after all it is a Zagato design!
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