Newsletter 169: And you call that a job?February 20^th, 2015

A gorgeous and smooth resin, along with the usual photoetches, top quality decals and white metal parts, will let you recreate Audi's victory at the 24 hours Le Mans in 2014. We tell you everything about it in the quickie post about this kit that our big boss has written at SpotModel blog.

Here's the limited reedition of the Arrows A2 from Studio27. A multimaterial kit with lots of parts in excelent gray resin, white metal, photoetches and decals for reproducion the version that raced at the France GP

Inside the usual Studio27 red box you'll find a pile of parts in excelent gray resin, white metal, photoetches and decals to reproduce the Arrows A2 version that raced in Italy and the Nederlands. A gorgeous goldie that Studio27 have just reedited in a limited edition.

In occasion of the reedition of the classic Revell kit of the BMW M1 Group 4, the guys at Studio27 have also reedited some of the interesting decals designed for the first release. One of them recreates this car, racing at 1982 Tour de Corse with Darniche at the wheel.

Due to the reedition of Revell kit, Studio27 has released this new reference including grids, brake discs, bonnet pins, bonnet pins, strearing wheel center, windshield wipers, seatbelt buckles and a countless number of additional details.

These decals can be used as spares for the ones served in Tameo kit TMK425, or simply for enhancing the looks of your 1/43 scale die-casts.

This precision file with semicircular profile has been designed and forged in Japan by Mineshima in top quality steel, to fulfill the needs of the most demanding modelers.

Straight from Japan and forged in top quality steel, these precision files from the excelent Mineshima brand are a complete joy for scale modeling. This reference features a triangular profile with a slightly curved tip, to reach even the furthest spots of your kits.

Made in Japan and forged in top quality steel, this precision file featuring a square profile and a long handle is simply essential for your workbench.

It has been reaaaally hard, but... we made it!! The carbon fiber decals from Museum Collection are finally available at SpotModel. According to civilian modeling gurus, these are simply the best and most realistic carbon fiber pattern decals in the market, and we can only agree with them. Sheet size is equally awesome, nothing less than 280mm x 135mm, and it's perfect for 1/20 and 1/24 scales.

The set includes the rear section of the car and the decals to upgrade the short version to the long version on the Ferrari 512S from Fujimi. It also includes decals with the numbers that raced at Le Mans in 1970.

Inside that gorgeous black box from Model Factory Hiro you'll find almost 3 kilograms (6 pounds) of parts. The bodyworks are made in flawless resin, rims in CNC turned metal, vulcanized rubber tyres, an endless number of photoetches and metal parts, several decal sheets... A mind blowing kit in a limited edition that you can't miss.

Nice mockup! Its resin castings are simply perfect, no other possible adjective can put them. The rims are anodized, machine milled and CNC turned (of course, as are the lug nuts on the rims), it includes a lot of tiny turned and machined metal parts, plus clear resin parts for the hydraulic fluid reservoirs, fabric for the harnesses, the engine completely exploded in great detail and executed in white metal, wood for the flat bottom, hundreds of photo-etched parts, instructions with 3D color illustrations, and more, much more... If Ayrton Senna saw this model, he would be totally amazed.

Once in a while Ferrari offers more and more impressive colors for their awesome cars. One of the latest is the metallic Grey Ingrid, designed for the Ferrari FF although is also offered in some other later models. The tone is not exactly grey, vaguely resembling the champagne color.

The Grigio Telesto is one of the Lamborghini tones with more fans amongst the brand followers. The thing about this color is that it turns military grey in low light conditions, although it looks incredibly metallic under the sunlight.

The spectacular car that Grosjean drove to the eight position at 2014 Monaco GP have been chosen by Tameo to recreate in 1/43 scale. If you need them, here are at your disposal these great decals printed by Cartograf exactly the same as the ones served by Tameo with the kit. Remember to use Zero Paints Lotus Black to get a perfect finish for your kit.

Now available the decals to enhance your die-casts or to directly use on your Tameo kit of the yellow machine used by Ayrton Senna to win the North America Grand Prix. Don't forget the Zero Paints color for your Lotus!!

This Giallo Fly yellow tone has been formulated by Zero Paints according to the official Ferrari color chart parameters.

Excelent set of photoetches for Hasegawa's Ford Focus RS WRC, featuring three plates. The first one, related to seatbelt buckles and bonnet pins, comes surprisingly bracketless. The second one focus on grids, brake discs and wipers, and the last one includes pedals, fans, rear view mirror, license plates and brake disc brackets.

It has been a while since Reji put this kit on the market and they finally reedited it!!. The kit features the winning decoration of both Montecarlo and Sanremo rallies with Walter Röhl number, as well as the full break up of the interior and bodyworks made in resin, photoetches and vacuum formed parts. Don't get distracted, this is a limited edition and you can't miss it!!.

Very cool decoration and even more cool decal. Peter Solberg put on an impressive hands-on display driving the DS3 WRX in the Rallycross Championship. Don't you feel like showing off your modeling hands with this decal? Remember that the car is not shiny, it is satin!!!.

Two sheets full of decals with all the neccesary carbon fibre patterns for the chassis, engine area, bottom and other parts of the Carrera GT from Tamiya: an excellent kit, and essential on every modeler's shelf.