FSW Weekly Edition #31/2026

Team RLL's Daytona Challenger

TrueScale's BMW M Hybrid V8 GTP 7th Daytona 24hrs 2024 #25 BMW M Team RLL in 1:43 scale captures BMW's much-anticipated return to the top level of endurance racing. Developed with Dallara and powered by the P66/3 twin-turbo V8 that traces its roots back to the marque's DTM programme, the M Hybrid V8 returned BMW to headline prototype competition for the first time in a generation. At the 2024 Daytona 24 Hours, the traditional curtain-raiser to the IMSA SportsCar Championship, the #25 car of Connor De Phillippi, Maxime Martin, René Rast and Nick Yelloly overcame a troubled run to come home seventh in the GTP class for the long-serving BMW M Team RLL squad, the American outfit that has carried the BMW banner in North American competition for the best part of two decades.

TrueScale's resin interpretation does the subject full justice, with the well-resolved casting and generous level of detail that have made the range such a dependable choice for the endurance collector. The M Hybrid V8's aggressive GTP aerodynamics, deep front splitter, sculpted sidepods and prominent rear wing are all cleanly reproduced, while the BMW M Motorsport colours and busy Daytona sponsor livery are sharply applied across the car's flanks. It is exactly the kind of contemporary prototype subject that anchors a modern endurance shelf, and it is available to order now.

The BMW heads a TrueScale delivery that celebrates the marque's return to top-class competition, and it arrives in a week that runs deep in endurance and GT content. Top Speed has an outstanding new collection of 1:18 IMSA GTD machinery drawn from the 2025 Virginia International Raceway meeting and the 2026 Daytona 24 Hours and Sebring 12 Hours, taking in the Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R, Ford Mustang GT3, Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo2 and Temerario GT3 and the Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo. Spark's substantial new shipment announcement is equally strong on the endurance front, headed by Team WRT's latest BMW M4 GT3 programme, the new Genesis GMR-001 Hypercar and the Aston Martin Valkyrie Le Mans entries, and rounded out by three superbly detailed Mercedes Actros transporters in Goodyear, Mercedes-AMG Formula 1 and McLaren Formula 1 liveries.

There is plenty more for the endurance collector besides. Spark has confirmed its selection of subjects for the 2026 Spa 24 Hours and, while the line-up has narrowed a little over previous years, there remains a fine choice in 1:43 scale, if only a very few in 1:18. The same maker is also working on a small 1:64 collection from the same race, with the winning Lionspeed Porsche joined by the Boutsen VDS 911, the Comtoyou Aston Martins, the Team WRT and Rowe Racing BMWs and the "Mamba" Mercedes-AMG. The extraordinary popularity of BMW's M3 Touring 24H shows no sign of fading either, with the "missing" 1:43 and 1:18 versions now announced to complete a collection that already runs across all the previously announced scales and versions. Ixo meanwhile looks to September for its next delivery and has added two new 1:18 subjects to the programme in a Porsche from Le Mans 2025 and a Ford from Daytona 2025.

BMW M Hybrid V8 GTP 7th Daytona 24hrs 2024 #25 BMW M Team RLL - TSM430800

Ferrari 612 Riverside 1969 #16 Amon - TEC43066D

Amon's Riverside Can-Am

Tecnomodel's Ferrari 612 Riverside 1969 #16 Amon in 1:43 scale recalls one of the boldest and least-remembered chapters in Maranello's competition history. Faced with the crushing dominance of McLaren's orange machines in the Canadian-American Challenge Cup, Scuderia Ferrari answered with the 612, an enormous open sports-racer built around a big-capacity V12 that grew towards seven litres, in enlarged 612P form, in the pursuit of parity. Chris Amon, the quick and famously unlucky New Zealander, was entrusted with the car, and at Riverside in 1969 the #16 Ferrari lined up against the full might of the Bruce and Denny show before retiring. It is a subject that captures the unlimited, no-holds-barred spirit of Can-Am at its wildest, and one of the very few occasions on which Ferrari took the fight to McLaren on its own ground.

Tecnomodel's resincast interpretation upholds the standards that have made the range a benchmark for historic Ferrari subjects, with beautifully resolved bodywork, crisp printing and the fine detailing collectors expect. The 612's low, wide and purposeful proportions, its cavernous air intakes and the deep Ferrari red over the car's considerable surfaces are all handsomely rendered, capturing the sheer physical presence of a machine built for one of motorsport's most uncompromising formulae. Due in August, it is an easy recommendation for any collector of period sports car racing.

The 612 heads a Tecnomodel delivery with a strong historic flavour, catering handsomely for the Ferrari enthusiast across both Le Mans and Can-Am. Joining it are the Ferrari 308 GT4/LM in NART colours from the 1974 and 1975 Le Mans 24 Hours, Amon's 612 and 612P Can-Am challengers from 1968 and 1969, and a stunning 1:18 Ferrari 330P representing Graham Hill's Maranello Concessionaires car that won the 1964 Tourist Trophy. There is more for the classic collector in Spark's latest group of 1:18 announcements too, which alongside its rally content adds the Le Mans BMW V12 LMR, the Cobra Daytona Coupe, a pair of Porsche 935s including the Sebring winner, the Marathon Porsche 914/6, a DTM Aston Martin Vantage and the Formula 1 Brabham BT44, a characteristically eclectic sweep across four decades of racing history.

Built and ready-made Formula 1 content runs equally deep this week. Looksmart gives Ferrari followers two new 1:18 models to look forward to in its latest shipment announcement, both depicting the SF-25 at the 2025 Italian Grand Prix, with Charles Leclerc's fourth-place car joined by Lewis Hamilton's sixth-place entry from an emotional weekend at Monza; pre-orders are closing soon, so now is the ideal time to reserve a favourite. Spark's major new shipment is every bit as strong on the single-seater side, spanning Max Verstappen's 2025 Red Bull RB21 victories, Oscar Piastri's Belgian Grand Prix-winning McLaren MCL39, George Russell's Canadian Grand Prix-winning Mercedes W16 and the ever-popular six-wheeled Tyrrell P34, all forming part of the maker's next sea shipment with pre-orders closing shortly. Minichamps adds an intriguing twist of its own with Formula 1 models presented alongside "posed" driver figures and celebratory pit boards, together with a couple of McLaren boxed sets, while BMW completists and Valentino Rossi devotees will be delighted by an extensive future production listing running through 1:64, 1:43, 1:18 and 1:12 scales.

Solberg's Mexican Triumph

Hasegawa's Subaru Impreza WRC05 1st Mexico 2005 #5 Solberg/Mills in 1:24 scale captures the World Rally Championship at the height of its modern popularity. Petter Solberg and Phil Mills, world champions in 2003 and runners-up in the two seasons that followed, led the Subaru World Rally Team's attack in 2005 aboard the new WRC05, and it was on the high-altitude gravel of Rally Mexico that the Norwegian and his Welsh co-driver delivered one of the season's standout performances, controlling the event from the front to take a commanding victory on the car's competition debut. As a subject it represents the last great flowering of the classic Impreza in world championship rallying, a car whose blue and yellow colours remain among the most instantly recognisable in the sport.

Hasegawa's plastic kit interpretation upholds the standards that have long made the Japanese maker a favourite among builders, with finely moulded parts, characteristically clear instructions and the photo-etched details, seat belts and windscreen wipers among them, that lift the finished article well above the ordinary. The WRC05's purposeful stance, deep front splitter, distinctive bonnet vent and busy Subaru World Rally Team livery are all faithfully captured, giving the patient modeller every chance of a genuinely striking result. Due as a Q4 reissue, it is offered now with an online pre-order discount and is precisely the kind of long-awaited return to the catalogue that rewards early commitment.

The Impreza heads a rich week for rally collectors. Hasegawa is reissuing two further 1:24 kits during the same Q4 window in the BMW 2002 Tii and the Lamborghini Miura P400 SV in blue, broadening the appeal well beyond the stage-bound faithful. Spark has a great deal to offer the classic rally enthusiast too, with a group of 1:18 announcements taking in the Audi Quattro, Ford Focus, Lancia 037 and Stratos, the MG Metro 6R4 and Porsche 356 and 914/6, a line-up that reads like a roll-call of the sport's most evocative machinery. Ixo looks to September for the first delivery of its own group of 1:43 and 1:18 models, with rally subjects from Alpine, Ford, Hyundai and Toyota well represented.  

Road car collectors are well catered for as well. That same Ixo delivery brings road-going Oldsmobile and Plymouth subjects alongside the rally content, while Spark's major shipment includes stunning 1:12 Porsche road cars among its many highlights. The same maker's 1:64 announcement adds a collection of Ruf Porsche CTRs, headed by the wonderfully liveried "Mandarina Duck" car from Macau in 1995, and Hasegawa's Miura and BMW 2002 Tii reissues offer the builder two of the most handsome shapes of their respective eras. Minichamps' extensive future BMW listing, spanning four scales, completes the picture for the marque enthusiast, though we must apologise for the poor quality of some of the images supplied to us.

Elsewhere, two new titles tempt from the bookshelf, with Ferrari: Icons of Excellence celebrating the history, innovation and legendary road and Formula 1 cars that have defined the marque, and Grand Prix Ford: Ford, Cosworth and the DFV exploring the remarkable story of the most successful engine in Formula 1 history. Both are available to order now and round out a week with something for every taste.

Subaru Impreza WRC05 1st Mexico 2005 #5 Solberg/Mills 1:24 - HASLE20846