FSW Weekly Edition 16/2018

Some things old, some things new, a few re-issues and some glue! Where the old is concerned, we have taken delivery of a fairly significant collection of un-built 1:43 resin and metal kits. These cover a variety of themes and can be found in the rarities section on our website. Keep checking the list as we are uploading in batches and are being snapped up pretty quickly too. We’ll get onto the new in a moment but along with the new deliveries and classic kits we have a few restocks including glues from Bison and Zap. The re-issues are plastic kits from two of the leading makers, Fujimi and Hasegawa who have a number of interesting subjects between them, original parts with new decal prints and in a couple of cases new variants. These include F1, Le Mans, rally, road and touring car subjects, so something for pretty much everyone! We have re-stocks and back orders from Tamiya too and for F1 fans the new 1:12 release from Italeri of the Alfa Romeo 179. Also in plastic is an all-new kit from Beemax for touring car fans of the Toyota Corona raced in Japan in 1994, this machine also appearing in Europe as the Carina E so we will hopefully see some alternative liveries soon. 

Toyota Corona (ST191) JTCC 1994 Zent 1:24 Reference AOS10396

Talbot Lago T26C 6th ACF 1951 #42 Chiron Reference JAD43169MG

Arriving just after we finished last week’s Weekly News, Midlantic has made the first delivery of their re-mastered Ferrari 612 Can-Am models. There are several variants to choose from, available as well thought out and cleanly cast resin & metal kits or as excellent hand builts. There are more kits and hand builts from ABC Brianza with a brace of similarly styled Alfa Romeo 6Cs, one a six-window saloon the other a ‘Presidential’ cabriolet/parade car. From Jade Miniatures, we have received a delivery containing a number of back orders and also several new hand built Grand Prix machines from the 1950s (and one from the 40s) with chassis from Gordini, HWM, Ferrari, BRM and Talbot Lago. 

We’ve quite a few new arrivals from Spark, with classic road, F1 and Le Mans machines along with more modern LM and F1 subjects including Hamilton’s 2017 Belgian GP mount, a race  which marked his 200th F1 start. Collectors of 1:18 road cars have new releases from Top Speed to enjoy and in the parent TrueScale range there are several new 1:43 models with Honda and Porsche sport-racing subjects, Honda & McLaren road cars, Walter Wolf’s spectacular Kremer 935 road car and, in the ‘Collection d’Elegance’ series, the dramatic ‘Devil’s Breath’ Alfa Romeo from Le Mans 1938.

Alfa Romeo 8C 2900B Le Mans 1938 #19 Reference TSMCE164301