FSW Weekly Edition #37/2021

First of all his week advanced warning that we are approaching the end of our financial year and that means the inevitable stock count, for which we will be closed from 28th-30th September. Until then it’s business as usual as we try and get as much out to you as we can! 

The latest delivery from Spark had a pleasingly brisk (in post-Brexit terms!) transition to us from France and three large cartons included a great selection of subjects with a couple of 1950s Le Mans racers, several 2021 Monte Carlo rally machines (plus a few rally classics) and a fine collection of historic Formula 1 cars with Cooper, Toleman, McLaren, Williams, Lotus and the 1973 Roger Williamson March. A talent sadly robbed of his future in Holland, the race after this version.

March 731 UK 1973 #14 Williamson - Reference SPK5373

Photographer Figure Set (x3) - Reference LMMCOFLM143004M

New releases from TrueScale are the brace of BMW Team RLL BMW M8GTEs from last year’s Daytona 24 Hours, the #24 black car the GTLM class winner. Le MansMiniatures has delivered a nice little shipment of backordered 1:24 kits and accessories for those who had been waiting and also included another of its excellent 1:43 hand painted figure sets, this new group including a photographer, chequered-flag man and vintage mechanic with pit stop lollipop.

If your collecting needs are for road cars, there’s lots to enjoy here this week with plenty of very specialist machines from Matrix. There’s a tiny Moretti coupe, Thatcher’s governmental Rover P5,  magnificent Isotta Fraschini and Duesenberg roadsters and the famous Bugatti T57 built by VanVooren for the Shah of Iran, one of the most dramatic cars of the Art Deco era. There are more road cars in 1:18, these being from Cult Scale Models and of rather more attainable subjects with a 1990 Range Rover and two colour choices for the pretty little Triumph Spitfire Mk2.

Triumph Spitfire MKII 1965 Red 1:18 - Reference CML091-2