FSW Weekly Edition 25/2019

We said last week that we were expecting many of the remaining cars from the 2018 Le Mans race to arrive and so they did on the eve of this year’s event. Fourteen of them! Six of these were Ferraris from Looksmart (only two remain available, the others now no longer available) while there were another eight from Spark along with a few other classic Le Mans entries, F1s, a Sebring 12hrs winner and subjects from the Spa 24 Hours. Also for Le Mans collectors, TrueScale at last released its Ford GTs from the 2017 race (all now no longer available too) and these arrived along with the pretty Bentley EXP10 Speed 6 concept. In addition to the resincast Ferraris, Looksmart also has a new hand built this week and it’s another for you concept car collectors, the gorgeous little Alfa Romeo Diva.

Alfa Romeo Diva Geneva 2006 - Reference MRCLS475

Gipfast DPLM Aston Martin Silverstone 6hrs 1980 #9 Preece/Phillips/Jenvey - Reference AML43025

Other hand built models this week come from MEA Kit43 as Bruno Mea continues his series of very limited bespoke hand builts of Formula 2 machines, the latest crop offering no fewer than ten subjects to choose from. These models are a little on the rustic side, but bravo for tackling such interesting subject matter. Also with single-seaters, we have had a restock and back orders delivery from Tameo and this also saw the delivery of the first of the reissued This Way Up kits since Tameo took over the moulds and production, with two kits of the Wolf WR5. Also in kit form, AML Miniatures is keeping very busy and the latest release is one they have done specially for us, a very limited run of the most unusual Aston Martin-powered Gipfast DPLM special which ran very briefly at the  Silverstone 6hrs in 1980.

Returning to ready made models and Matrix issued several new releases with the latest addition to their Racing series being the Lister Jaguar ‘Knobbly’ driven to victory by Moss in the 1958 Daily Express Trophy. In the regular range there is also a ‘road’ version of the same car and this has arrived along with some very attractive Bugattis including Malcolm Campbell’s personal car. We’ve been very impressed by Trofeu’s recent very limited edition diecast releases and the latest in this series brings us a pretty Gulf sponsored Ford Escort raced at Brands Hatch in 1972 and a colourful BMW from the Targa Florio in 1973, complete with a makeshift bonnet closure recreated in fine wire.

BMW 3.0CS Targa Florio 1973 #191 GS Tuning - Reference TRFRRIT03