FSW Weekly Edition 37/2019

After a couple of weeks absence due to holidays, our weekly news returns and we’ve a fair selection of subjects for you. Beginning with new books we see several new titles with a fine history of the Autodelta Alfa Romeo team covering their successful years through the 60 and 70s into the early 80s. For Formula 1 fans there’s a look at some of the more innovative engineers and designers to have been involved with the sport and the latest in the Haynes ‘Workshop Manual’ series covers one of our favourite big-banger sports-racers, the Lola T70. While we’re on the subject of brutal horsepower, hand built arrivals last week from Looksmart include two absolute stunners, the Lamborghini Aventador SVJ Roadster and Ferrari’s Monza SP1 concept.

Ferrari Monza SP1 Paris 2018 Silver - Reference MRCLS499A

Acura NSX GT3 Watkins Glen 2017 #93 Statue of Liberty - Reference TSM430385

Singer’s re-imagined Porsches offer modern performance in classic styling and Cult Scale Models has released some fine 1:18 resincasts of these rare machines. Also in 1:18, Ixo released some superb value diecasts of modern Skoda R5 rally cars from the 2018 ERC series.  Minichamps too has a bunch of new 1:18 releases with a well finished Williams FW16 and there are a raft of new releases in 1:43 from them as well with classic and modern F1 subjects. For visual appeal, little beats the Japanese SuperGT machines and we have three new subjects arrive from Ebbro (one of which was sold out on pre-orders). Honda’s NSX GT3 is one car which comes close visually (at least we think so), especially when we view some of the liveries racing and TrueScale has replicated one of the prettiest among its latest releases. 

We received a significant delivery from Spark last week with over twenty new models. These continue several classic Forluma 1 themes, there are road going Mercedes, Audis, Alpinas and Bentleys, Porsche race cars and several additions to the Formula E grid. Spark also announced plenty of future production with 1:18 Le Mans subjects now confirmed and much more. Matrix has an interesting new selection of subjects with open and closed versions of per-war Mercedes and Graber-bodied Aston Martins and a unique Rolls Royce Shooting Brake. Bizarre is a brand that we don’t often see new releases from so it was great to see four new models in one go with some very interesting pieces of early Porsche history and two speed record cars.  

MG EX135 Bonneville 1951 137.4mph - Reference BIZ1055