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Delta Acropolis

Acropolis Rally lovers, Lancia Delta lovers, Hasegawa kit lovers... your dreams become true at SpotModel once again. You can now preorder the Jolly Club Lancia Delta kit that raced the 1993 Acropolis Rally, reissued by Hasegawa in limited units.

Candy!!!

That's right, this week we bring you a newsletter full of candy. But they are not sweet, nor do they melt in your mouth, nor do they taste like fruit, because they are scale modeling "candy"... but yes, we're still sure that some of you will want a bite of them ;)

You can't build scale models without patience

Piero Di Carlo was a truly remarkable modeler: from 1936 until 1971, he was building a scale model of the city of Rome as it was in the 3rd century AD, following the directions of Gismondi, Italy's most famous archeologist, architect and historian. He started when he was 29 years old and worked in the model until he was 65 years old. That's modelers patience!!!

I'm really happy, really proud...

Carlos Sainz, "El Matador", has been chosen the best rider in the history of the World Rally Championship by thousands of fans of the championship worldwide and a group of specialized journalists, beating Sébastien Loeb, nine times world champion, proving that it is not only the numbers and the track recods what really matters when choosing who is the best.

El Torito

It's not the first time that you decide to jump into the bull ring and make that decoration that only exists in your imagination, or recreate that variant that raced another rally and have three different stickers, or "do the tobaccos" on that formula 1 that didn't include all the tobacco sponsors, or simply replace that decal that is right on the hood and got damaged.

Essential

Scale modeling classics are back, the big ones, those boxes that we all like so much, those 1/12 scale beauties born several years ago, those models that we respect so much, that never go out of style and that we all keep in our stash to assemble when we retire. Why don't you start right now?

Who do you think you are? Stirling Moss?

In 1951, a young English boy made his debut at the Formula 1 World Championship at the Swiss Grand Prix, where he finished eighth. From then, he raced, and raced, and raced until 1962, when he suffered a very serious accident on the Goodwood circuit. During those years, he won 212 of the 529 races he took part in all kinds of cars and competitions, from Le Mans to F1, F2 or the Mille Miglia... Absolutely genius. He was the driver with the most victories but without ever winning a Formula 1 World Championship, making him one of the champions without a crown. Quite a symbol ("Mr Motor Racing"), not only for his victories, but for his way of racing and the sportsmanship he showed.

R8 LMS GT3

Since a few days, what we must do, for both our own safety and for the others, is staying at home. That stops us, for some time, from doing some things we love, like going out for a walk, hanging out with our friends, going for a bike ride, going to the cinema or the theater... But luckily WE CAN do one of the things we like the most in the world... building models!!! :D

Dazzle

The Dazzle or disruptive camouflage is a type of camouflage that began to be used on military ships during the First World War, featuring complex geometric shaped patterns in contrasting colors which interrupt and intersect each other. Curious, right?

Come hell or high water

As we wrote last week we are still here, open for you, operating at the same rate and as normally as possible, and putting all our efforts into not letting the exceptional nature of these days reflect in our work, although it is inevitable that the external circumstances affect us all in some way.