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Print Lab - Upgrade 3

It is incredible how time goes by, right? We take a look at the calendar and suddenly realize that the SpotModel Print Lab just turned one year old a few weeks ago. One whole year!!! At the beginning we were "on all fours", with stumbles and all kinds of problems, but little by little we have learned to walk and now all the technology is more "lubricated" and the internal process is more refined and adjusted, thanks to your many comments and suggestions. Months ago we made a breakthrough by announcing the Print Lab Marketplace that allows you to publish your own designs and even make a little money with them (or a lot!). And what comes next ...?

Final Edition

About 100 newsletters ago, that is, 100 weeks ago, we announced that Pocher was launching 2,000 units of the Ducati 1299 Panigale S Anniversario in 1/4 scale and that they were going to fly. And so it was, the model arrived and flew away, sold out in just week. Many of you were left wanting for more, with tears in your eyes for not being able to get one in time.

Quattro Sport

October 4th 1984, Ivory Coast Rally, eleventh and penultimate race of the World Rally Championship: Audi driver Stig Blomqvist wins at the wheel of the Audi Quattro Sport with a 22-minute lead, which makes Blomqvist the drivers world champion and once again Audi Sport wins the Constructors championship. That day, October 4th 1984, is without any doubts one of the magical moments in Audi's impressive history of rallying.

Delayed

My order is delayed once again, again the arrival date of that paint that I need so badly to complete my model or that much desired photoengraving gets postponed, and the release date of the beautiful model that is THE novelty among all novelties gets pushed back one more time by the manufacturer. Can you explain me what's going on? Why is everything getting delayed?

The GT40 by Meng

Hardly any details are known about the 1/12 scale model that Meng is preparing of the Ford GT40 Mk.II. A few months ago they showed the box design, a few weeks ago they uploaded images of the 3D designs, a few days ago they showed images of an assembled model and yesterday they provided us with an estimated sale price and possible supply date in Europe, scheduled for the end of the year. And on the record, this is all we can tell you at this moment... :)

All that matters is how you play the game

We have heard many times that "It doesn't matter whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game", a big truth. Scale modeling is not a competition, building models is a hobby where what really matters is the wish to reach to go to the end and the ability to put the tools, the liters of glue, the sandpaper and the necessary paint, on top of a steady pulse, a 57x magnification glass, a bomb-proof patience and the will to see the model finished... to achieve it.

Coming back

Yes, things are coming back from the old times when we were younger. Back are those days at home, those idle afternoons, and also are returning the scale models from back then. For example, the BMW R80 G/S 1000 edited in the 80's by Protar and now recasted by Italeri, the Peugeot 206 WRC by Tamiya originally edited in 2000 (yes, that's twenty years ago), the beautiful and cheap model of the Volkswagen Beetle 1300 by Tamiya released in 1994, the MFH Ferrari 312T4 released in 2012, or the batch of Porsche 917, Ford GT40, Ferrari 330 / 512TR / 288 GTO / 250 GTO / F40, all of them by Fujimi that are arriving at SpotModel's warehouse these days.

Vademecum

That's the word that came to our minds when we got our hands on Komakai's new book on the Lotus 72E. And it's true that its two hundred and sixty two pages have impressed us, first for their volume and then, when staring at their contents, we felt in love with its quality and the amount of details it includes: those tiny screws, those little tubes, the color of that part, the shape of that hidden piece of the Type 72E...

Italian red

The world of colors is really complex. And if we are talking about colors for our scale models, things get even more complicated. Some years ago, only Italian Red existed and little else in scale modeling color charts, and with that tone all Ferraris, all Alfa Romeos, all Porsches, all Ducatis were painted... We saw endless rivers or Italian red at scale modeling shows.

At the end of the rainbow...

At the end of the rainbow is that magical place where everything is possible, where when you are in the middle of assembling a model and doubts assail you, you can know exactly what color you need to give it the most realistic look, or to get the most similar color to that one on the decals. At SpotModel we get lots of emails daily with the question "what color do I use for ...?" And you know what? That in order to solve all those questions we decided to travel to the end of the rainbow! :D

Last!

Print Lab - Upgrade 3

Final Edition

Quattro Sport

Delayed

The GT40 by Meng

All that matters is how you play the game

Coming back

Vademecum

Italian red

At the end of the rainbow...

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