Newsletter 180: 13 years old!!

White metal parts, turned metal parts, photoetched parts and Cartograf printed decals to recreate Divina Galica's Surtees. A really exclusive model as well as very interesting.

The 8th issue of the Sportscar Spectacles by HIRO focuses on 1967 races. On its pages you'll find pictures of the Ford GT40 Mk IV, Ferrari 330P4, Ferrari 412P, Lola T70 Mk III, Porsche 907, Chaparral 2F, Alpha Romeo T33, Alpine A210,  Fiat 124, Lotus 47, and several other sport cars of those days.

This issue of Joe Honda's photographic reference books focuses on the Porsche 956 during the early 80s, featuring both factory and private owned cars. Featuring 108 pages and 400 photographs, with Japanese text partially translated in English.

Revamp your Peugeout 206 WRC scale kit with these Hobby Design photoetched parts. Brake discs, seatbelt fabric and buckles, radiators, grids.... It doesn't get any more comprehensive than this!!

Perfection in a scale model is something really hard to achieve, but now you can easily get much closer thanks to this photoetched parts set by Hobby Design for the NSR500. Your chain will come to life with the volume providing photoetched and metal turned parts, your brake discs and brackets will shine with the premoulded photoetched parts, and all your bike will go one step further on the road to perfection. And if that's not enough, it also includes the tobacco decals missing in the original kit.

Let's travel in time to the 70s: Italian races are the best of the best, and there race a beast called Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 Short Tail. Model Factory Hiro have now recreated it in this kit featuring white metal parts, photoetched parts, decals, vacuum formed parts, metal turned parts, rubber tyres, and full-color 3D instructions. Awesome!!!.

Model Factory Hiro get us back to 1970 LeMans 24 hours with a gorgeous red-haired beauty coming from Italy: the legendary Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 Long Tail.

In this first part, the author shows us pictures from five different teams (Ferrari, Brabham, Matra, Surtees and Tyrrell), covering the following Grand Prix: Champions Race, Spain, Belgium, Netherlands, England, Canada, North America and Mexico.

Set of two Formula 1 pilots in white metal that will help you to bring more realism to your dioramas in 1/43 scale. Warning! It does NOT include any decals.

Set of two standing Formula 1 pilots, in white metal. Decals NOT included

Don't miss the Cartograf printed decals of this kit, featuring hyper saturated hues, metallic colors and even hot printed shapes, in addition to its fully detailed engine, bike stand to exhibit the results, and comprehensive assembly instructions.

The 1970 LeMans winner, now reedited by Fujimi in one of their classic and most renowned kits without any doubts. Reminder: the kit does NOT include a detailed engine.

A mind-blowing kit of Jim Clark and Graham Hill's Lotus 49. What did we like most of this kit? Its rubber printed tyres, detailed parts break-up, Cartograf printed decals, chromed parts, yellow tinted transparent plastic parts, ... A really interesting kit.

Set of four P Zero Orange tires, known as hard type tires, which were used in Formula 1 in the 2011 to 2016 seasons to achieve maximum durability on the track, and which have now been reproduced by Tameo in 1/43 scale. All four tires come pre-painted from the factory with P Zero logos made in orange pad printing on both sides of the tyre.

Take any of the McLaren F1 GTR Short Tail edited by Fujimi and use these decals by Tabu on them to recreate the decoration of number 59 car racing at the LeMans 24 hours of 1995: an absolutely gorgeous machine.

Two decals sheets featuring all carbon fibre and kevlar patterns needed to bring realism to the cockpit, engine bay, spoiler and several other parts of the Mercedes Benz AMG C Class by Tamiya.

The actual car is a real beauty, and Studio27 scale model kit is even more beautiful. Bodywork is made in top quality resin with an awesome panelling, the decoration is reproduced in an exhaustive decals set, and the vast number of photoetched and metal parts will make you enjoy building a car that has already become a legend in the present days.

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.