MR Collection’s 849 Testarossa models in 1:18 have arrived into stock. Ferrari runs a one-off Michael Schumacher tribute livery at Monza this weekend, and two manufacturers at opposite ends of the market had replicas booked before the cars turned a wheel in first practice. Alongside that: LookSmart has committed to twenty-two Ferrari sports-racers in a single announcement, one of which is listed as the wrong car; ACME’s “strictly limited to 402 pieces” turns out to be a house number rather than a considered edition size, which changes how yesterday’s GMP figure should be read; and TopSpeed and TSM are now running the 2026 GT3 season as a matched pair in two scales. Reference numbers, prices and delivery windows are given where the manufacturers stated them, and flagged where they did not.
The Monza tribute goes on sale before it races
Ferrari is running a special livery on the SF-26 at the Italian Grand Prix this weekend, 4–6 September. It carries Michael Schumacher’s personal logo and the seven stars he wore on his helmet for his seven titles, and it marks thirty years since he joined Ferrari and twenty since his last win for the team, at the 2006 Chinese Grand Prix. Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton drive it, in matching race suits.
BBR announced its versions this morning — “seven stars and a tribute to Michael Schumacher: Ferrari’s heart beats in Monza GP 2026” — with the dealer sheet going out at the same time. Eight references, no prices published:
- BBR2618E44DIE — 1:18 SF26 Gran Premio d’Italia 2026, Hamilton, Schumacher Tribute, Luxury Pack
- BBR2618E44 — 1:18, Hamilton, Polyfoam Pack
- BBR2618E16DIE — 1:18, Leclerc, Luxury Pack
- BBR2618E16 — 1:18, Leclerc, Polyfoam Pack
- BBRC332E44 — 1:43, Hamilton
- BBRC332E16 — 1:43, Leclerc
- BBRC332E44DR — 1:43, Hamilton, with driver figure
- BBRC332E16DR — 1:43, Leclerc, with driver figure
Bburago has the same livery booked for the first quarter of 2027, six references: 18-16817MO44 and 18-16817MO16 in 1:18 for Hamilton and Leclerc; 18-36871MO44 and 18-36871MO16 in 1:43 with a showcase and driver figure; and 18-36872MO44 and 18-36872MO16 in 1:43 on their own.
That a tribute livery gets modelled is not news — it always does. What is new is the speed and the spread. BBR is a hand-finished Italian maker whose 1:18 Formula One cars sit at the top of the market; Bburago is where most collectors in this hobby started. Both had the car booked before the weekend’s running began, rather than waiting to see whether the race produced a result worth commemorating. If Leclerc or Hamilton wins on Sunday there will be a third wave by Tuesday.
LookSmart announces twenty-two Ferraris
The Spa group is the more unusual of the two, because it is not a selection. It is the 296 GT3 EVO entry from the 2026 24 Hours of Spa, more or less entire, at $155 in 1:43:
- LSRC225 — No.51 AF Corse, 3rd, Rovera / Nielsen / Mosca
- LSRC226 — No.50 AF Corse, 5th, Wadoux / A. Leclerc / Gelael
- LSRC227 — No.74 Kessel Racing, 10th, Blattner / Jaubert / Marschall / Tuck
- LSRC228 — No.45 Rinaldi Racing, Duran / Medler / Perel / Balzan
- LSRC229 — No.52 AF Corse, Zagazeta / Machiels / Stadsbader / Braschi
- LSRC230 — No.71 Selected Car Racing, Schandorff / Ebdrup / Birch / Laursen
- LSRC231 — No.60 JMW Motorsport, Kiefer / Ineichen / Heinemann / Chovet
- LSRC232 — No.70 AF Corse, Toledo / Molina / Vaxivière / Dempsey
The podium car is scaled up as well: LS18RC045, the No.51, in 1:18 at $350.
Doing a whole field rather than the winner and one hero livery is a bet on a particular kind of collector — the one who buys grids, not cars. It is rarer than it sounds, and it is the reason the entries with no finishing position quoted are in there at all. Two names in the list will do some of the selling on their own: LSRC226 carries Arthur Leclerc, and LSRC232 carries Patrick Dempsey, who is still racing GTs in his sixtieth year.
The Le Mans group is historical, and covers 1965 to 1971. In 1:43 at $155: LSRC112LM (330 P2, Le Mans test day, April 1965), LSRC119LM (330 P2 No.19, 1965, Surtees / Scarfiotti), LSRC120LM (330 P2 No.20, 1965, Guichet / Parkes), LSLM137 (365 P2 No.18, 1966, Gregory / Bondurant), LSLM155 (330 P3/4 No.20, 1967, Amon / Vaccarella), LSLM156 (330 P4 No.21, second in 1967, Scarfiotti / Parkes), and four 512 S from 1970 — LSLM170 (No.11, fourth, Posey / Bucknum), LSLM173 (No.5, Ickx / Schetty), LSLM177 (No.8, Merzario / Regazzoni) and LSLM180 (No.6, Giunti / Vaccarella).
In 1:18 at $350, three 330 P3s from 1966
- LS18LM038 — Parkes / Scarfiotti
- LS18LM039 — No.21, Guichet / Bandini
- LS18LM040 — Rodríguez / Ginther
Three 330 P3s ran at Le Mans in 1966: the works SEFAC coupés of Parkes and Scarfiotti at No.20 and Bandini and Guichet at No.21, and the North American Racing Team Spyder of Richie Ginther and Pedro Rodríguez at No.27, which retired with overheating after 151 laps. The first two lines are right. LS18LM040 should read No.27 — which is exactly how LookSmart listed it when this group was first announced in August.
ACME
- A1801230 — 1:18 1966 Pontiac GTO Street Fighter, MSRP $144.95, third quarter of 2026, “strictly limited to 402 pieces”
- A1801230E — 1:18 6.2 LS V8 engine and transmission, MSRP $19.95, third quarter of 2026
- A1801230W — 1:18 Street Fighter custom wheel and tyre set, bronze, MSRP $14.95, third quarter of 2026
TopSpeed and TSM 2026 GT3 season in 1:18 & 1:43
TopSpeed, 1:18 sealed resin, December 2026:
- TS0608 — Lamborghini Huracán Sterrato, Verde Gea Matt, $190.00
- TS0707 — McLaren 750S, Lime Green, $190.00
- TS0721 — Ford Mustang GT3 No.64, Ford Racing, 2026 IMSA Daytona 24 Hours, $220.00
- TS0745 — BMW M4 GT3 EVO No.3, Schubert Motorsport, 2026 DTM Zandvoort race two winner, $210.00
- TS0746 — Lamborghini Huracán GT3 EVO2 No.45, DEX / Wayne Taylor Racing, 2026 IMSA Laguna Seca class winner, $210.00
- TS0747 — BMW M4 GT3 EVO No.77, Schubert Motorsport, 2026 ADAC Nürburgring 24 Hours, $210.00
TSM, 1:43 resin, December 2026:
- TSM430856 — BMW M5, Alpine White, $90.50
- TSM430945 — Mercedes-AMG GT3 No.69, GetSpeed, 2026 IMSA Daytona 24 Hours, $101.50
- TSM430976 — Lamborghini Huracán GT3 EVO2 No.45, DEX / Wayne Taylor Racing, 2026 IMSA Daytona 24 Hours, $101.50
- TSM430978 — BMW M4 GT3 EVO No.3, Schubert Motorsport, 2026 DTM Zandvoort race two winner, $101.50
- TSM430979 — BMW M4 GT3 EVO No.77, Schubert Motorsport, 2026 ADAC Nürburgring 24 Hours, $101.50
Four of the five TSM cars are 1:43 companions to 1:18 TopSpeeds. Both Schubert M4s appear in both scales in the same month. The Mercedes-AMG GT3 No.69 and the DEX Huracán at Daytona are the 1:43 versions of TS0716 and TS0742, the November cars we listed on 27 August — so the small scale is running roughly a month behind the large one rather than alongside it.
Two things follow. The DEX Huracán is being done twice over, at Daytona in 1:18 and 1:43 and again as the Laguna Seca class winner in 1:18 only — the same car, two results, and no 1:43 of the Laguna Seca race yet. And the scale premium is now measurable on identical subjects: $210 against $101.50 for the same M4, a fraction over 2:1. That is a cleaner number than the hobby usually gets, because it is the same tooling programme, the same month and the same distributor.
1:18
GT Spirit books nineteen models for early 2027
Two batch announcements yesterday afternoon, without reference numbers or prices at this stage.
February 2027, eleven models: Porsche 917/20 Pink Pig Le Mans in 1:8; BMW M3 Lightweight in 1:8; RWB Jonsibal in 1:12; and in 1:18, RWB Boonme, Porsche Cayman S Design Edition 1, Brabus Rocket GTC, LB-Works 720S, McLaren SLR Edition, BMW M3 by Khyzyl Saleem, Ford Shelby Super Snake-R and the Aston Martin Valhalla.
March 2027, eight models: Nismo R34 GT-R Z-Tune in 1:8; Porsche 911 2.8 RSR in 1:12; and in 1:18, Porsche 911 (964) Turbo 3.3, Audi RS 3 Competition Limited, Koenigsegg CC850, Dodge Charger R/T, Ford Mustang Dark Horse SC and RUF RGT.
The Valhalla is the line that matters. On 31 August we led on the Aston Martin Valhalla arriving in three scales at once through TSM, Mini GT and TopSpeed. GT Spirit makes a fourth manufacturer on the same car inside a week, and the second in 1:18. Separately, GT Spirit posted the first pictures of its Aston Martin Valiant in 1:18 this morning, in Zenith White — the car it teased on 2 September. Still no reference number or price for that one.
AUTOart: First Pics of the Guards Red 930
78114 — Porsche 911 Turbo 3.0 (930) in Guards Red, expected in October. A composite model with functional openings, joining the black and silver metallic cars already in the range.
WERK83: a fourth Sharknose
W1807908 — Ferrari 156 Sharknose No.38, third at the Monaco Grand Prix 1961, Phil Hill. That is the fourth 156 announced inside a week, after the von Trips British Grand Prix winner, the von Trips French Grand Prix car and Richie Ginther’s Belgian Grand Prix third place. Hill took the 1961 title; the Sharknose is now plainly a programme rather than a single car, and the obvious remaining subject is the Monza race that decided that championship, which for understandable reasons nobody has announced.
1:43 and smaller
IXO: the Iron Dames car
LEGT43-23039 — Porsche 911 RSR-19 No.85, Iron Dames, 24 Hours of Le Mans 2023, with Sarah Bovy, Rahel Frey and Michelle Gatting. No price or delivery window published.
Mini GT: two more Bond cars
Five new references in 1:64, no pricing or dates given:
- MGT00914 — BMW Z3, GoldenEye
- MGT00915 — Toyota 2000GT Roadster, You Only Live Twice
- MGT01137-L — Bugatti W16 Mistral, yellow
- MGT01239-R — Nissan Silvia (S15) LB-Super Silhouette, AMOCULTURE
- MGTS0026 — Lamborghini Huracán Sterrato All Terrain set
The 2000GT Roadster is the one worth waiting for. Only two were ever built, both cut down by Toyota specifically for the film because Sean Connery would not fit in the coupé.
Quick hits
- The 1:18 Lincoln run continues. A full-opening metal Navigator has appeared at around $240 Canadian in black and ice blue, listed without a manufacturer name or a product number — treat it as unconfirmed until someone puts a badge on it.
- Prices in this roundup are manufacturer MSRP, from BBR’s, ACME’s, LookSmart’s, TopSpeed’s and TSM’s own consumer announcements. Where a manufacturer published nothing, we have said so rather than filled the gap.
- Nothing new in the last 24 hours from Spark, GP Replicas, Minichamps, GLM, Stamp, KK-Scale or Sun Star.
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