MR Collection has opened pre-orders on the Ferrari 12Cilindri Manuale in 1:18 — six colours of the gated-shift V12, two of them limited to twenty-five models each. Also: Kess opens nine in 1:43 including the one-off Meera S, Sun Star’s 1:12 Volkswagen Samba turns up in the flesh at a thousand pieces worldwide, and Kaido House has four more for Mini GT.
KK-Scale is doing the boattail Buick Riviera in 1:18 — the 1973 car, in at least three colours, due in November. Also: MCG opens eighteen references in 1:18 that run from an AMC Pacer to an NYPD Caprice, AUTOart lands five Porsche 930 Turbos on 14 October with a sixth colour behind them, BBR starts a Schumacher-era Ferrari series with the F2003 from Suzuka, and Norev has a new 300 SL Gullwing.
Tecnomodel is doing the March 707 Can-Am in 1:18, five versions of a car that has almost never been modelled, including Kelleners’ Nürburgring winner and Amon’s Laguna Seca car. Also: Maxima opens seven 1:18 resins led by a shark-nose Ferrari 330 GT 2+2, Sun Star adds two more 1960 Plymouth Furys, TSM and Top Speed put the Daytona-winning Porsche 963 into 1:12 and 1:18, and Esval builds a 1956 Chevrolet emergency fleet in 1:43.
AUTOart has announced twenty new 1:18 references in a week — fifteen Lamborghinis, including four colours of a car Squadra Corse built exactly once, and five versions of the 911 Carrera 2.7 RS. Also: BBR opens the Ferrari 288 GTO in ten colours and a Maserati GT2 Stradale limited to twenty, Spark brings the 2026 Formula One season to scale with Gasly’s Monza pole among fifteen references, and Mini GT is doing Mario Andretti’s Lotus 78 in 1:64.
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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