FSW Weekly Edition 31/2018

Spark are really getting back into the swing of things lately and there have been a significant number of new releases from them over the last week. Many of these are in the national series, with the Spa dn Nurburgring 24 Hour races featuring prominently, but there is also plenty in the regular range with several Formula E machines, modern rally and rallycross cars and a great selection of classic Le Mans and sports racing subjects. Spark has always said that the Le Mans winners series would remain available, although there can be delays while new production is realised and there are many restocks on this theme too. Staying on the Le Mans theme, Looksmart finally released the last of the Ferrari 488s from the 2017 event and it has saved, visually at least, the best until last with the spectacularly liveried Clearwater Racing machine arriving alongside the 2017 Bathurst 12 Hours winner.

Ferrari 488 GTE Le Mans 2017 #60 Clearwater Racing Reference MRCLSLM071

Ferrari 315S 1st Mille Miglia 1957 1:18 Reference BBRC18007

A hot subject for collectors for the past couple of years has been the Ford GT and if you have bought, or are thinking of buying one of the many kits of this car made, be it by Hiro, Profil 24 or even Revell, the latest in Komakai’s series of excellent detail photo guides covers the race car as it appeared in 2016 to help you add those final touches. We’ve no new kits or accessories for you this time, although there are plenty that have been added to our sale items and we have had announcements of future production from SilverLine with an Arrows FA1 and a surprise contact from Yowmodellini, who tell us there is a parcel on the way (the first for quite some time). We do have hand built models though and arrived from BBR we see a new colour variant of the popular Ferraro Portofino and in 1:18, an imposing model of Taruffi’s 1957 Mille Miglia winning Ferrari.

Onto the final straight and there are more hand builts from GCAM, with nicely finished miniatures of unusual Stanguelli and Renault race cars from Le Mans in the 1950s. Our final delivery as we were preparing this week’s news comes from Ebbro, with a selection of machines from the 2017 Japanese Super GT series  (plus a handful of back orders). All are colourful machines, but we have to admit to being suckers for a good Red Bull livery!

Lexus LC500 Super GT500 2017 #37 Red Bull Reference EBB45520