Newsletter 176: "I insisted on doing things the best way..."April 20th, 2015
"I insisted on doing things the best way..."
... said Michele Alboreto, and Model Factory Hiro insists on making spectacular kits the best way they know: immaculate white metal casts, perfectly manufactured resins, incredible photoetches, new materials and innovative techniques... just like they did in the three 1/12 scale kits of the Ferrari 126C4 just arrived at SpotModel.Fujimi is another one of the brands under Alboreto's motto, and this week they bring us two versions of the FW14B in addition to the race version of the Mini Cooper Mk. I, and several Ferraris: 599 GTB Fiorano, 512TR and 348GTB.
Aoshima is another brand that keeps astonishing us and doesn't fall behind, with spectacular kits, eternal part break ups, awesome plastics, and Cartograf printed decals, just like it happens in the McLaren F1 GTR Long Tail sponsored by Lark we've just received.
The last great italian pilot racing at Ferrari liked to do things the best possible way... surely he was a scale modeler!! :D
Model Factory Hiro: Car scale model kit 1/12 scale - Ferrari 126C4M2 Scuderia Ferrari Team sponsored by Fiat Agip #27, 28 - Michele Alboreto, Rene Arnoux - European Formula 1 Grand Prix, Portuguese Formula 1 Grand Prix 1984 - multimaterial kit
Reference: MFH-K471
This scale model reference is based on the late season Formula 1, featuring a big rear diffuser and major aerodynamic modifications in the bodywork. Inside the gorgeous red box by MFH you'll find milled and turned aluminium parts, photoetches, top quality decals, white metal parts, resin parts, rubber tyres printed with Good Year logos, and many many more parts, each one more amazing than the other.
Model Factory Hiro: Car scale model kit 1/12 scale - Ferrari 126C4M Scuderia Ferrari Team sponsored by Fiat Agip #27, 28 - Michele Alboreto, Rene Arnoux - British Formula 1 Grand Prix 1984 - multimaterial kit
Reference: MFH-K470
This scale model kit is based in the mid season version, featuring a relocation of the radiator (horizontally placed) and the modification of the side pontoons. Inside the box, you'll find milled and turned aluminium parts, photoetches, top quality decals, white metal parts, resin parts, rubber tyres printed with Good Year logos, and many many more parts, each one more amazing than the other.
Model Factory Hiro: Car scale model kit 1/12 scale - Ferrari 126C4 Scuderia Ferrari Team sponsored by Fiat Agip #27, 28 - Michele Alboreto, Rene Arnoux - Belgian Formula 1 Grand Prix, San Marino Formula 1 Grand Prix 1984 - multimaterial kit
Reference: MFH-K469
This kit is based in the early season version, featuring a big rear spoiler and sharp lines in the bodywork . Inside the box, you'll find milled and turned aluminium parts, photoetches, top quality decals, white metal parts, resin parts, rubber tyres printed with Good Year logos, and many many more parts, each one more amazing than the other.
Fujimi: Car scale model kit 1/24 scale - Ferrari 512TR - plastic model kit
Reference: FJ125909
The eighties left us with some fabulous Ferraris with flat 12 cylinder engines and legendary air intakes in the bodywork, now reproduced in this scale kit by Fujimi. The parts break up is well structured and extensive, the bodywork is made in one piece, tyres are rubber made, includes chromed parts.... and the air intakes are gorgeous!!
Fujimi: Car scale model kit 1/24 scale - Ferrari 348GTB - plastic parts, rubber parts, water slide decals, assembly instructions and painting instructions
Reference: FJ125916
Passion red is the car, passion red is the box, and passion is the only thing what will guide you building this kit from start to end, thanks to their easiness. The bodywork is injected in just one piece, rims are chromed, tyres are rubber made, and the decals are just perfect.
Fujimi: Car scale model kit 1/20 scale - Williams Renault FW14B Williams Grand Prix Engineering Team sponsored by Canon #5, 6 - Nigel Ernest James Mansell, Riccardo Patrese - Hungarian Formula 1 Grand Prix 1992 - paint masks, plastic parts, rubber parts, water slide decals and assembly instructions
Reference: FJ090795
In the 1990s, Williams Team dramatically innovated Formula 1 with its technological advances, and Fujimi has done the same with the injection molding of this kit. There is more to see the rear spoiler, executed in one piece. Simply spectacular. As usual, the kit does not include tobacco advertising decals.
Fujimi: Car scale model kit 1/20 scale - Williams Renault FW14B Williams Grand Prix Engineering Team sponsored by Canon #5, 6 - Nigel Ernest James Mansell, Riccardo Patrese - Monaco Formula 1 Grand Prix 1992 - paint masks, plastic parts, rubber parts, water slide decals and assembly instructions
Reference: FJ090702
In the 1990s, Williams dramatically innovated Formula 1 with its technological advances, and Fujimi has done the same with the injection molding of this kit. There is more to see the rear spoiler, executed in one piece. Simply spectacular. As usual, the kit does not include tobacco advertising decals.
Aoshima: Car scale model kit 1/24 scale - McLaren F1 GTR Long Tail sponsored by Lark #44 - Masanori Sekiya + Keiichi Tsuchiya + Akihiko Nakaya - 24 Hours Le Mans 1997 - plastic model kit
Reference: AOSH-007518
Aoshima delights us with a new version of the F1 GTR Long Tail racing at Le Mans, this time of the vehicle sponsored by Lark. The kit features a fully detailed engine, decals printed in Italy by Cartograf, masks for painting the window frames, and an infinite part listing for building one the most beautiful race cars of the 90s.
Mf-zone: Decals 1/24 scale - Citroen C4 WRC sponsored by Le Moniteur Automobile #2 - Petter Solberg + Phil Mills - Condroz Rally - Rallye du Condroz 2014 - for Heller reference 80756
Reference: MFZ-DC2429
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 Mf-Zone decals over your Heller kit
Fujimi: Car scale model kit 1/24 scale - Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano - plastic parts, rubber parts, assembly instructions and painting instructions
Reference: FJ122779
Ferrari doesn't stop making beautiful cars, and luckily Fujimi reproduces every one for us to build them... Isn't it just great? The kit features an extensive and well laid part listing as usual with Fujimi, the bodywork is made in just one piece, tyres are rubber made, and it also includes chromed parts.
Fujimi: Car scale model kit 1/24 scale - Mini Cooper Mk I #7 - plastic model kit
Reference: FJ12229
A classic english car still alive and kicking (REALLY kicking) at the classic races, the Mini Cooper Mk I. Fujimi gives us this version with anti-roll bars, racing decoration, right-handed sport steering wheel, bucket seats, and two dashboards for both the old (center console speedo) and new (wheel mounted speedo) versions of the car. That's Mr. Bean dream!!
Model Factory Hiro: Reference / walkaround book - JOE HONDA - Sportscar Spectacles - Sport Prototypes - Part 2 - Monza 1000 Kilometres, Nürburgring 1000 Kilometres, SPA Francorchamps 1000 Kms , 500 Kms BOAC Sports Race 1967
Reference: MFH-SS009
A new issue of the Sportscar Spectacles - Sport Prototypes series featuring Joe Honda pictures, this time at the Monza 1000 Kms, Spa 1000 Kms, Nürburgring 1000 Kms and BOAC 500 Kms races. The main focused vehicles are: Ferrari 330P4/410P, Porsche 910 and 906, Lola T70 Mk III, in addition to Aston Martin, Chevrolet, Chaparral 2F, Mirage M1, Mini Marcos, and others. All of it in 108 full colour A4+ oversized pages (297mm x 232mm), including a grand total of 600 pictures. Volume texts are written in Japanese, with partial English translations.
Renaissance Models: Car scale model kit 1/43 scale - Nissan R390 GT1 sponsored by Calsonic Clarion #21, 22, 23 - Jörg Müller + Wayne Taylor + Martin Brundle, Eric van de Poele + Aguri Suzuki + Riccardo Patrese, Kazuyoshi Hoshino + Erik Comas + Masahiko Kageyama - 24 Hours Le Mans 1997 - resin multimaterial kit
Reference: 038
Isn't it wonderful that a 1/43 scale kit have more parts than most bigger scale kits? Have you ever used premoulded photoetches for the rims? Can you face that challenge?