The first two Diecast Zone auctions have closed, and whoever was watching did well — a mint Danbury Mint split-window Corvette at $65 and a Danbury Mint Deuce highboy at $25, with three of the opening five still running and a good deal more now on the board. Also: Top Marques takes the Ferrari 330 P3 into 1:12, BBR puts three Antonelli wins into limited luxury packs, Schuco opens thirty-six in 1:64 and 1:87, and IXO has the new Lancia Gamma.
Spark has opened five Lotus 49Bs in 1:43, running from Jo Siffert’s win at Brands Hatch in 1968 to Jochen Rindt at Watkins Glen in 1969 — part of an eighteen-reference batch that also takes in four Porsche 550 Spiders from Sebring and two Bentley Speed Sixes from Le Mans. Also: BBR opens the Ferrari 849 Testarossa in 1:18 in ten versions, Almost Real takes the Camel Trophy Defenders into 1:64, ACME has first photos of its Fire Chicken Firebird, and Minichamps’ week 42 list comes with prices.
The Diecast Zone auctions are running again — rebuilt software, proxy bidding, and five models the club put up to start things off, from a Danbury Mint split-window Corvette to a Dale Earnhardt set. Also: Sun Star announces a Boss 351 Mustang and two 1958 Fairlanes in 1:18, KK-Scale takes the R34 GT-R to 1:12, LookSmart has Leclerc’s Singapore Ferrari in three scales, and Autocult does a Daytona that was built once.
Top Marques has opened twelve references in 1:12 — all three Fords that filled the podium at Le Mans in 1966, including the Ken Miles car, the Mk IV that won in 1967, and three Sauber-Mercedes C9s from 1989. Also: Spark puts two Spa 24 Hours winners into 1:8, BBR opens the Ferrari F8 Spider in eleven colours, Solido announces fifteen including a Mustang Boss 429, and ACME’s Dukes-liveried Challengers have landed.
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 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.
ACME is importing a 1:43 Mitsubishi Evo IX with opening doors, hood and trunk and a detailed engine, at $109.95. Also: BBR invents the Sculpture Concept and limits it to 144, KK-Scale has the Back to the Future II Hilux, and WERK83 adds four more 1961 sharknose Ferraris.
Kyosho has cut new tooling for four Initial D cars in 1:64 with working LEDs. Also: ACME’s Hemi Under Glass Cuda at 240 pieces, AUTOart’s Toyota 2000GT in four colours, and Spark takes on the Dakar Raptors.
CMC has taken the Bartoletti racing transporter down to 1:64 with 342 individual parts, opening workshop doors and working steering, at $139. Also: Minichamps opens its first quarter of 2027 with Valentino Rossi’s whole GT career.
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