FSW Weekly Edition #34/2026

Magnus's Comtoyou Vantage

Spark's Aston Martin Vantage GT3 Evo 20th DTM 2025 #007 Magnus in 1:43 scale captures a corner of modern GT racing that miniature makers have been slow to reach. The DTM's move to GT3 machinery has drawn teams and manufacturers from every part of the GT world, and the Comtoyou-run Aston Martins have been among the most watched of them, the Vantage GT3 Evo bringing the marque's front-engined, broad-shouldered shape to a series built on close racing, safety cars and hard-fought recoveries. The #007 car carried a number no Aston Martin can wear entirely innocently, and Magnus took it through a 2025 campaign that ended with twentieth in the classification, the sort of season that makes up the great bulk of any championship and is almost never commemorated in scale. A grid is not made up only of winners, and a shelf that shows only the winners tells a rather incomplete story.

Spark's resincast interpretation is limited to just 300 pieces, and it is exactly the sort of subject the maker's methods exist to make possible, resin bodies rather than traditional diecast meaning that relatively short production runs can be made and what might otherwise be marginal subjects become viable. The Vantage's distinctive proportions, its long bonnet, sharply cut arches and substantial rear wing, are cleanly resolved, and the Comtoyou Racing and Spark branding is neatly applied across the #007 livery. Due during October and available to pre-order now with our online discount applied, it is a model that will find few rivals in 1:43, and at three hundred pieces it is not a decision to leave until the autumn.

The wider GT and endurance shelf has rarely looked better stocked. Spark's latest shipment announcement is headed by the Cadillac V-Series.R which finished fourth at Le Mans in 2026 and the Genesis GMR-001 Hypercar, with GT racing represented by an excellent selection of BMW M4 GT3s including the 2025 Bathurst 12 Hours and Suzuka 1000km winners, together with DTM machinery from BMW and Ford and the Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo from Suzuka, From Spark's earlier announcement come the Cougar C20 from Le Mans 1989 and Porsche 911 entries from the 1971 and 1974 races, Mazda RX7s from the Daytona and Spa 24 Hours, the McLaren F1 GTR Davidoff Classic, the McLaren 720S GT3 Evo and the sister Aston Martin Vantage GT3 Evo from the 2025 DTM season. Both announcements are available to pre-order now but the windows are closing soon, so anything on that list is best dealt with sooner rather than later, and with the McLaren and Ford LMDhs both now running and bound for the grid in 2027, the Hypercar and GT shelves look set to stay busy for some time yet.

Aston Martin Vantage GT3 Evo 20th DTM 2025 #007 Magnus - SPKSG467

Hyundai i20N Rally1 5th Sweden 2026 #16 Fourmaux/Coria - IXORAM1035A

Fourmaux's Swedish Run

Ixo's Hyundai i20N Rally1 5th Sweden 2026 #16 Fourmaux/Coria in 1:43 scale takes us to the one round of the World Rally Championship that looks like nothing else on the calendar. Rally Sweden is the championship's only full winter event, run on snow and ice with studded tyres biting into the surface and banks of packed snow lining the roads, and it rewards a particular kind of commitment, the crews leaning the cars into those banks at speeds that look implausible from the outside. Adrien Fourmaux and Alexandre Coria took the #16 i20 N through to fifth place, a solid haul of points on a rally where the margin between a clean run and a long walk back is measured in inches, and the Rally1 cars remain the fastest and most spectacular machines the championship has ever fielded, which makes the current generation well worth capturing while it is still with us.

Ixo's 1:43 diecast interpretation is the kind of model that keeps a collection moving, well finished, very competitively priced and covering subjects that the specialist resin makers frequently pass over, and the maker has both Swedish Hyundais in preparation, the fourth and fifth placed i20 N Rally1s of the two team-mates, so the pair can be shelved together as they finished. The i20 N's aggressive aerodynamic addenda and the busy detail of the modern Rally1 livery come across neatly at this scale, and with the season's results only now beginning to appear in miniature this is among the first chances to add a 2026 WRC car to the shelf. Due during 2026 and available to pre-order now with our online discount applied.

The rally shelf has more besides, and with the FIA now openly courting new constructors ahead of next year's regulations there is every reason to think the category's miniature representation will only broaden. Ixo's announcement covers both of the Swedish Hyundais, so the two team-mates can be shelved as the pair they finished, and for those whose tastes run to the pioneering days of the discipline Spark's earlier shipment announcement includes the Porsche 356 Tour de Corse winner, a reminder of a time when a rally car was very much a road car that had been asked a difficult question. That announcement is available to pre-order now but the window is closing soon, so anyone tempted by the 356 would do well not to leave it.

Giacomelli's Monaco Breakthrough

FC Models' March 763 F3 1st Monaco 1976 #76 Giacomelli in 1:20 scale takes us back to the race that has always mattered most on the junior single-seater ladder. The Monaco Formula 3 event was for decades the shop window of the sport, a race watched by every team owner who mattered and won by drivers who were about to be given rather better cars, and in 1976 it was Bruno Giacomelli who came through in the works March 763, going on from there to a Formula 1 career with McLaren and then Alfa Romeo. The list of names that followed him onto the winners' board in the seasons immediately afterwards tells its own story, with Didier Pironi, Elio de Angelis and Alain Prost taking the next three runnings, and the March 763 itself was the definitive customer Formula 3 car of its moment, built in numbers and raced everywhere by drivers hoping for exactly the sort of afternoon Giacomelli had.

FC Models' new and improved 1:20 resin and metal kit is a considerable step up in presence from the more familiar 1:43 offerings, and it arrives with the sharply mastered and crisply cast components, the low parts count and the sensible levels of photo-etched detailing that have made the maker such a favourite with builders who want a rewarding project rather than a marathon. Printed acetate windows and screen-printed decals are included, with picture-based assembly instructions, and the March's slender monocoque, exposed suspension and period proportions make it a genuinely handsome thing once finished. It is due during 2026 and available to pre-order now with our online discount applied, and it comes alongside its companion release, the March 773 in which Piercarlo Ghinzani took the 1977 European Formula 3 Championship, so the pair can be built as consecutive chapters of the same story.

There is more for the builder and the single-seater collector besides. Tameo's 1:43 metal kit of Jody Scheckter's 1977 Monaco Grand Prix winning Wolf WR1 is scheduled for delivery during September, which places the Principality's two great single-seater victories of the mid-seventies within a year of one another on the same shelf, and there is still time to place a discounted online pre-order. Spark's earlier shipment announcement is strong on historic Formula 1, with Ayrton Senna's Lotus 98T winner from the 1986 US Grand Prix, Damon Hill's Williams FW15C winner from Belgium 1993. In Sparks latest shipment announcment collectors will find Max Verstappen's Red Bull RB21 winners from Japan and the USA in 2025 alongside new 1:5 helmets for Kimi Antonelli and Franco Colapinto. Looksmart's latest announcement is dedicated to Ferrari Formula 1 and could hardly be better timed, with Charles Leclerc's fourth-placed #16 SF-25 from Monza 2025 joined by Lewis Hamilton's #44 car from his first Italian Grand Prix as a Ferrari driver, alongside a selection of 1:5 driver helmets taking in Leclerc and Hamilton from Monza 2025, Leclerc and Carlos Sainz from Abu Dhabi 2024 and Leclerc's special helmet from his home victory at Monaco in 2024, all available to pre-order now but with the window closing soon.

For the reader rather than the builder, four new books have been selected, the seventh volume of "Formula 1, Car By Car" covering 2009 to 2019, part two of "Against All The Others: Porsche's Racing History, 1969", a hardback reprint of John Starkey's "Ford Versus Ferrari: The Battle For Supremacy At Le Mans 1966" and "John Woolfe - The Man Who Bought A Porsche 917", co-authored by Woolfe's then business partner.

For the road and movie car collector, there is plenty to look forward to, with Mini GT adding two more James Bond favourites in 1:64 for Q1/2027, the battle-scarred Aston Martin DBS from Quantum of Solace and the iconic Lotus Esprit S1 from The Spy Who Loved Me. Looksmart, meanwhile, has the 2026 Ferrari 12Cilindri Manuale coming in 1:43 with a choice of six colours, while the newly unveiled Lamborghini Revuelto SV is also joining the future production programme with a selection of colour schemes now available to pre-order. Finally we have KK Scale who is expanding its 1:18 range with the imposing 1958 Chevrolet Bel Air Impala Coupe, offered in four suitably period colour combinations.

March 763 F3 1st Monaco 1976 #76 Giacomelli 1:20 - FCM20013