Tecnomodel is moving into 1:12 for the first time, with six versions of the 1996 Ferrari F40 LM at twenty-seven pieces each. Also: Minichamps has Lando Norris’s championship-clinching Abu Dhabi car with figure and pitboards, Ottomobile announces seven for March including a Renault 14 and a Fiesta XR2, IXO opens ten in 1:43 led by Blomqvist’s Swedish Rally Quattro, and BBR has both Ferraris from Silverstone.
Amalgam has launched the Ferrari Amalfi Spider at 1:8 — 199 pieces in Rosso Tramonto, with a Giallo Montecarlo version of just nine to follow. Also: AUTOart’s Diablo SE30 in five colours, Minichamps’ 1:18 of Norris’s Hungarian GP winner, first photos of ACME’s King Kong GTX, Mini GT’s Goldfinger Mustang, and twenty-five new Spark references.
MR Collection has opened pre-orders on the Ferrari Luce in 1:18 — Maranello’s first electric car, in seven colours with two 49-piece specials. Also: Top Marques lists twenty new 1:18 references including the Toyota TS010 and McRae’s Focus RS, four of them as weathered “dirty” versions; BBR announces the 296 GT Modificata four days after Ferrari revealed it; and Tecnomodel does the 1999 Ferrari F399.
First, an update on the site: more than 1.2 million posts from the original forums are back, the Car List now holds 45,145 models with a plain-English search, and the lost member reviews have been recovered. Then today’s news — Spark will build the Suzuka 1000km winning Porsche in 1:64, 1:43, 1:18 and 1:8, BBR announces the Maserati MCXtrema in four liveries, ACME has two Atoll Blue GTOs, and Norev is doing a full-opening Volvo 850 T-5R wagon.
GP Replicas Brings Back Senna’s McLarens and Schumacher’s F2002 — Diecast News Roundup, September 15
GP Replicas has listed twenty-four historic Formula One references for the first quarter of 2027 — Senna’s 1992 and 1993 McLarens, Schumacher’s F2002 in 1:12, Alboreto’s 156/85 and the Benetton B194. Tecnomodel has twenty of its own, twelve of them the 1965 Ford GT40 Roadster in six liveries across two scales. Also: BBR adds seven colours to the 812 GTS, KK-Scale has a 1957 Buick station wagon, and Mini GT opens six new pre-orders.
KK-Scale has a 1965 Buick Riviera coming in four colours, and one of them is named after Road House — the fourth film car the company has tooled in three weeks. Also: Tecnomodel announces nine in 1:18 including a Lamborghini 400 GT Monza in five colours, Spark opens twenty-seven new 1:43 references, AUTOart adds four Chargers and a Guards Red 930, and MR Collection builds a Revuelto exactly once.
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