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FSW Weekly Edition 07/2019

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This week's FSW Weekly #01/2019 latest arrivals news PDF is here!

 

Here we are, back to our regular Thursday slot after a couple of weeks of travelling to shows and... here is the news!

Over the past few months there has been a huge upturn in demand for the Denizen range of figures and the deliveries from our old friend Chub Pearson are getting more and more frequent with another this week. Staying with items for those who prefer to get their hands dirty, we’ve a new kit delivery from JPS which saw restocks of its pre-painted kits of the Porsche GTE ‘Retro’ liveries along with a new Cougar C20B release from the 1990 Le Mans race and also two kits which Grand Prix Models has  created together with JPS using a third party decal supplier. These use unpainted castings rather than their usual painted offerings and depict the two BMWs from the 2010 race, one in regular works colours and the other a spectacular ‘Art Car’ livery.

BMW M3 (E92) Le Mans 2010 #79 BMW Motorsport - Reference GPM43002

Chevrolet Camaro Le Mans Practice 1980 #87 - Reference SPK2604

 

Last week marked the Chinese New Year and so many of the factories will be closed for the next couple of weeks, but Spark has made sure that there was a bumper delivery before they went on their break.  This included restocks of a number of Le Mans winners and new models of Porsche road cars, classic F1 chassis from BRM, Cooper, Gordini, Iso and Ligier, three more from the 2018 Le Mans grid and some interesting historic LM entries such as the striking Camaro which failed to qualify for the 1980 race.

 

Back to traditional European production for a moment and we have a straggler from last week’s CCC delivery with a hand built of a pretty DB Panhard coupe which raced at Le Mans in 1952. If Porsches are more your thing but you fancy something other than Le Mans cars, TrueScale has a couple of items of interest. The European mountain championship was very important in the late 1960s and we have the 910 Bergspider as raced in 1967. Alongside this is a far more visually dramatic machine in the form of a 914-6 raced at Laguna Seca in 1976.

Porsche 914-6 Laguna Seca 1976 #45 Carlsen - Reference TSM164339

If you missed it, here is the last edition of FSW Weekly, the current Future Production listings, Sale Department and our Rarities Department too.

The Gen2 Formula E series moves to Mexico this weekend and it is timely that Minichamps has announced the grid in both 1:18 and 1:43.  The first of the 2019 Formula 1 machines have begun to break cover and we’ll know what they all look like next week as testing begins on Monday. This weekend sees one of the biggest dates on the US calendar, with the Daytona 500 on Sunday. Meanwhile, over in Sweden the WRC protagonists will be doing battle in the snowy forests of Sweden - thrilling viewing!    

This Week's Headlines

14 February

Minichamps: here are the initial 2019 1:18 & 1:43 modelling plans for classic Formula 1, 2018 Formula 3 & Gen2 Formula E. Pre-order book is open...

Schuco: here are production plans for the 1:18 range with Glas, BMW, Citroen, Mercedes, Porsche & VW including a transporter and vintage Mercedes...

BBR: 1:18 production updates on Ferrari F40, 126C2, 250TDF, 275GTB, 488 Pista, FXX-K Evo, Monza SP1, SF71H, Pagani Huayra Gyrfalcon & Porsche 917LH models...

RGM Design: is offering the 5th placed Le Mans 1963 Maranello Concessionaires' Ferrari 330LMB & NART's Bridgehampton car driven to 3rd place by the great Dan Gurney...

Books: new titles to be published over the next months include 'Allard', 'Boss Mustang', 'Bugatti Type 50', 'F1 Mavericks', 'Forty Years Of Airfix Toys' & 'The Life Monaco Grand Prix'...

13 February

Revell: 1:24 Martini Porsche, Land Rover Defender S3 & 1:16 Porsche 928 are all on the list for future plastic kit production...

Hasegawa: update on 2019 future production WRC, Formula 1 and F3000 plastic kits...

12 February

Italeri: 2019 plastic kit programme will bring 1:12 Alfa Romeo 8C Monza, Renault RE20, 1:16 Mercedes Gullwing & 1:24 Lambirghini Jota, Lancia LC2, BMW Procar, Audi Quattro, Range Rover 'Classic', Porsche 956 and more...

TrueScale: has two new 1:43 models on offer, both Porsches in the shape of the 910 Bergspyder 2nd Ollon-Villars Hillclimb 1967 & Carlsen 914-6 Laguna Seca 1976...

Spark: super new collection of 1:43 resincast models brings road, Le Mans & Dakar Porsches; F1 Ligier, Iso, Gordini, Cooper & BRM; Alpine, Chevy, Ford, Oreca & Ligier Le Mans classic and 2018 too...

JPS: is now listing two more Le Mans subjects to come, the 1978 Mirage M9 and 1983 Charles Ivey Porsche 930, a subject close to our hearts as it represents so many points in 'The Boss's' working history...

Grand Prix Models: with help from JPS we are able to offer the two Le Mans 2010 BMW M3 team cars missing from many collections. These unpainted resin kits are in stock now...

11 February

JPS: new arrival is the Group C2 Cougar C20B Le Mans 1990 as a 1:43 pre-painted resin kit. Fancy a quick build project then this brand is the answer...

Hiro: making three 1:12 high detail resin & metal kit versions each of both the Mansell/Berger 1989 Ferrari 640 (F1/89) and 1957 Ferrari 315S/335S Le Mans/Mille Miglia in 1:24...

Denizen: more stocks of 1:43 unpainted metal figures and accessories arrived...

8 February

GCAM: continue the history of Le Mans with another small crop of hand built 43rds this time bringing DB HBR & Tank, Simca Huit, Spice SE88C & Talbot T26SS to avid collectors around the world...

Looksmart: one of our favourite Ferrari shapes of recent years, the Japanese anniversary J50 is now available in 18th scale...

Matrix: office excitement with the arrival of the 1:43 Stirling Moss Rob Walker Racing Ferrari 250SWBs. Production models prove those pre-production pictures to have been just that, pre-production, with the correct 1961/1962 details have been observed...

MR Collection: the long months of waiting are over! First delivery of the 1:18 Lamborghini Terzo Millenio has now landed and what an evil looking thing it is...

CCC: latest offerings of 1:43 resin/metal kits and hand builts are Le Mans Gordinis & Panhard Dyna, street Peugeot 183...

Schuco: the Mercedes-Maybach 6 concept looks like it's travelling at 200mph standing still and this 1:43 resincast model captures it beautifully...

AML Miniatures: new to GPM this week, we are quite impressed with the quality of what you find in the boxes so if Aston Martin is a collecting thing don't miss out on this brand of resin kits...

Book:: important new book 'Twice Around The Clock: The Yanks At Le Mans' is an 1096 page, 925 image three volume slip-cased work covering all aspects of Americas participation in the great race. Pre-order advised...

Esdo: a rare release from this, one of the oldest of our artisan resin/metal kit & hand built model makers is the 1934 Monte Carlo rally Peugeot 301...

Keeping In Touch

To keep yourself completely up to date visit the Future Production list regularly as there is a constant flow of additional products which all qualify for our 5% online pre-order discount off the price and with daily deliveries here at GPM you can keep yourself up to date with what's newly arrived by book marking the New Arrivals section. Alternatively check us out on social media:

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