Newsletter 175: Green...

Here's the green color decorating the Pramac team Ducatis during the 2011 season, formulated for airbrush use by Zero Paints to give a perfect and realistic look to your scale model.

The Grandfather of all ground effect Formula 1, the thoroughbred from the seventies, now in Tameo's low cost series, not meaning low quality at all: only cheaper price. Do you dare?

The amazingly curious decoration of the Vaillant racing at Norisring in 1976 driven by Wollek, showing a white colored Porsche instead of the usual green color. A ground breaking decoration without any doubts.

Along with the gorgeous photoetches, you'll find the excelent fabrics from Studio27 for building the seatbelts for the Tyrell 002. Go ahead with them!!

Acrylic solvent-based paints (containing Toluene), already prethinned for airbrush usage with nozzles sizes from 0.3mm upwards, and specifically formulated for modelers that need the best possible match to the colors of every actual road and track vehicles. It's formulated as double-coating paint, so it needs to be coated or lacquered after its application, and you could find different finishes along Zero Paints ranges linked to the suffix in the name: "metallic", "mica", "pearl" or "candy" for pearlescent colors, or "solid"/unspecified for solids. Please refer to Zero Paints FAQ for detailed usage instructions.

Great!! The long awaited return of Petter Solberg behind a wheel, and side by side with Phil Mills... Awesome!! They didn't win the rally, but they were the fastest at the three first stages... Is there any better way to celebrate than placing these Renaissance decals over your Heller kit?

Pay attention, since the instruction manual for these decals is wrong: they are intended to be used with Belkit BEL-003 scale model. All the rest in these decals is perfectly ok, and they look really cool.

Rudy Michelini made the debut of the DS3 R5, with all-wheel drive and a 1.6 turbocharged direct injection engine, at the San Remo Rally, as reproduced in this Studio27 decal. The decals are very good at the design level, but we recommend that you paint the black areas in matte black after clear coat, since that is how the car had these areas during the rally.

Three sheets full of decals with all the neccesary carbon fibre patterns for the chassis, engine area, bottom and other parts of the FW14B from Fujimi: an excellent kit, and essential on every modeler's shelf.

A new Tameo kit of one of the most beautiful Alfa Romeo F1 cars, the 179 model. Made in Tameo's usual high quality white metal casting, with a shaped photo-etched sheet for the rims , a second sheet for the wishbones , and a third sheet for the sides with their skirts, spoilers and other mechanical parts. The decals, as usual, are printed by Cartograf .

This decal is printed by Cartograf

De Cesaris and Giacomelli didn't get really lucky at the USA West Grand Prix, but that doesn't make the car or the scale model kit any less gorgeous. Besides the immaculate decals, the most awesome part of the kit is the bodywork, manufactured with surgical precision in white metal.

If you got in trouble with the Tameo decals included in the kit, don't panic and use these spare decals. You just got lucky!!

Alboreto and Johansson finished first and second at the Canadian Grand Prix, the box includes both numbers... I really want to build the kit twice!!

Remember that you can use these decals either on the Tameo kit they were designed for, or even in your die-cast collectibles.

What a joy now that Tabu has decals with eeevery sponsor of the FW14B. And when we say eeevery, we mean exactly that: eeevery ONE of them (including the camels of Camel)

Acrylic solvent-based paints (containing Toluene), already prethinned for airbrush usage with nozzles sizes from 0.3mm upwards, and specifically formulated for modelers that need the best possible match to the colors of every actual road and track vehicles. It's formulated as double-coating paint, so it needs to be coated or lacquered after its application, and you could find different finishes along Zero Paints ranges linked to the suffix in the name: "metallic", "mica", "pearl" or "candy" for pearlescent colors, or "solid"/unspecified for solids. Please refer to Zero Paints FAQ for detailed usage instructions.

It surely wasn't easy bringing the Porsche 962C with chassis 962-004 to the top of the glory after 500 kilometers, but painting your Tamiya kit in camel yellow and decorating it with these interesting decals by Reji will be a piece of cake. Of course, they DO include all tobacco logos.

Reproduced in 1/16 scale, this classic "Gullwing" Mercedes will look gorgeous in your shelf. Both doors and bonnet are fully operable, allowing you to enjoy every detail of this scale model kit.