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Tecnomodel 1:12 Ferrari F40 LM's, six versions and twenty-seven pieces of each. Minichamps has Lando Norris’s championship-clinching car with the figure and the pitboards. Ottomobile has announced seven for March, IXO has ten in 1:43, and BBR has both Ferraris from Silverstone. Reference numbers, prices and dates are given where the manufacturers published them, and flagged where they did not.

Tecnomodel: 1:12, and the F40 LM
Six references, all the 1996 Ferrari F40 LM, all 1:12, each one limited to twenty-seven pieces:

TM12-17A — press version, Enkei silver wheels, red
TM12-17B — press version, Enkei silver wheels, Giallo Modena
TM12-17C — press version, Enkei silver wheels, matt black
TM12-17D — racing version, black wheels, red and white
TM12-17E — Martini Racing number 22, racing 1996, gold wheels, black
A sixth, the press version in Grigio Medio on black wheels, is listed under the same TM12-17E code — almost certainly a typo for TM12-17F, and we will correct it when the maker publishes the sheet
At 1:12 an F40 LM is about forty centimetres of hand-built resin, and Tecnomodel is not trying to reach a market so much as fill a list. The F40 LM is the right car to do it with: the Michelotto-built competition version, wider, lower, stripped of the road car’s compliance and pushed past 700 horsepower, and a shape that gains more from the extra size than almost anything else Ferrari made. The Martini car is the one people will want.



Minichamps: Norris, world champion
537254104 — McLaren MCL39, Lando Norris, world champion, Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 2025, with a standing figurine and two pitboards, resin, €219.95 including VAT
110252546 — BMW M4 GT3 Evo, Team WRT, Valentino Rossi / Kelvin van der Linde / Charles Weerts, winner of the Indianapolis 8 Hour 2025, diecast, €219.95
117250263 — Mercedes-AMG F1 W16 E Performance, George Russell, third at the Chinese Grand Prix 2025, resin, €199.96
The Abu Dhabi car is the one that matters. Minichamps has already done Norris’s Hungarian win; this is the race that settled the title, and it comes with the figure and the pitboards, which is how Minichamps signals that a reference is meant to be the centrepiece rather than another entry in a season set. Anyone building a 2025 McLaren shelf has been waiting for it.

The WRT BMW is worth a look too. Rossi winning Indianapolis outright in a GT3 car, sharing with van der Linde and Weerts, is the strongest result of his sports car career so far.

Ottomobile: seven for March
All 1:18 resin, all quoted for March 2027. No consumer prices published.

OT1405 — Ford Fiesta Mk1 XR2, Diamond White, 1981
OT1409 — Renault 14 TS, Rouge 705, 1983
OT1407 — Volkswagen Golf VIII R “333” limited edition, Lime Yellow Metallic, 2023
OT1317 — Dacia Duster Redust Sport 4×2 Hybrid, green, 2025
OT1427 — BMW M4 GT4, Nürburgring 24 Hours 2026
OT1337 — Rocket Bunny Aero (V1) Mazda RX-7 (FD3S), red, 2015, in the Otto Project Car series
OT1412 — Volkswagen Golf 7 Oettinger TCR Germany Street, Candy Red, 2019, Otto Project Car

The Renault 14 is the one to stop at. It is a car whose own advertising compared it to a pear, it sold badly, it rusted, and almost none survive — and it is now a 1:18 resin model. The Fiesta XR2 is the same instinct pointed at Britain. Between them they are a reminder that Ottomobile’s real business is not supercars but the ordinary cars that everybody’s family had and nobody kept.

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Tecnomodel: the Prost Mugen JS45
TM18-353A — German Grand Prix 1997, Shinji Nakano, number 15
TM18-353B — Italian Grand Prix 1997, Jarno Trulli, number 14
TM18-353C — German Grand Prix 1997, Trulli, number 14
TM18-353D — Monaco Grand Prix 1997, Olivier Panis on wet tyres, number 14
All limited editions at $335.00 MSRP, released May 2027. The same four cars are also listed as driver versions, with a figure at the wheel, under TMD18-485A to D at $345.00. A driver-version set of the 1995 Tyrrell-Yamaha arrives at the same time and the same price, under TMD18-494A to D.

1997 was Prost Grand Prix’s first season, Alain Prost having bought Ligier and put his own name on the gate. Panis was quick enough to be third in the championship before he broke both legs at Montreal; Trulli, a rookie standing in for him, led the Austrian Grand Prix for most of the afternoon before the engine failed. It is a season nobody models, and four cars from it is more than the subject has had in thirty years.

MR Collection: the Bugatti Mistral
BUG015 — Bugatti Mistral W16, 1:18
BUG015SE3 — the same car in Blue Carbon, limited to 99 pieces
No consumer prices published. The Mistral is the last car Bugatti built around the quad-turbo W16 — 99 of them, roadster only, the engine’s send-off after two decades. Ninety-nine models of a car built in ninety-nine examples is the neatest edition size anyone has picked this month.

ACME: the Bandit’s ramp truck

A1801714 — the 1967 Chevrolet C-30 ramp truck as Bandit 1. Starlight Black with gold trim, the Firebird logo on the hood and gold wheels, painted to match the Trans Am. MSRP $144.95, ETA the first quarter of 2027, built to order rather than to a fixed edition size.

2027 is the fiftieth anniversary of Smokey and the Bandit. Everybody who collects the film has the Firebird; the ramp truck is what it arrived on, and building to order means ACME expects demand to set the run rather than the other way round.

Also in 1:18
WERK83 W18033009-CB — Ferrari F300 number 3, Michael Schumacher, winner of the 1998 Canadian Grand Prix, available from 9 October
Touring Modelcars 18048006 — Opel Commodore B GS/E Coupé 1975, quoted for the fourth quarter of 2026
The Commodore GS/E is the sort of thing that only ever gets made by a small maker: a big, quick, German coupé that Opel sold to people who could not justify purchasing a Mercedes.

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IXO: ten, and the rally half is the good half
All quoted for the first quarter of 2027. The competition cars:

RAC467SB-004SP — Audi Quattro number 4, winner of the Swedish Rally 1982, Stig Blomqvist and Björn Cederberg, night version
RAC463LQ.22 — Opel Ascona B 400 number 15, third on the Hessen Rally 1982, Sepp Haider and Jörg Pattermann
RAM1037.22 — Lancia Ypsilon HF Integrale Rally2 number 1, winner of the Rally dei Laghi 2026, Andrea Crugnola and Andrea Sassi
And the road cars, all in the CLC series:

CLC632N.22 — Range Rover 3.5 1982
CLC649N.22 — Subaru Legacy RS 1989
CLC661N.22 — Chevrolet Monte Carlo 1971
CLC664N.22 — Volkswagen Caddy pick-up 1983
CLC665N.22 — Suzuki Vitara 1995
CLC684NSP.22 — Audi Quattro in base rally trim, 1982, night version
CLC689NSP.22 — Saab 99 EMS Coupé 1976, night version
Blomqvist’s Sweden win in 1982 was the Quattro’s first proper snow result and the moment the four-wheel-drive argument stopped being an argument. Doing it as a night car, with the lamp pod lit, is the right call. The Saab 99 EMS is the quiet one on the list and probably the better model — an ordinary Swedish coupé that nobody has tooled in years.

BBR: both Ferraris from Silverstone
BBRC332D16 — Ferrari SF26, Charles Leclerc, winner of the British Grand Prix 2026
BBRC332D44 — Ferrari SF26, Lewis Hamilton, third in the same race
BBRC332D16DR and BBRC332D44DR — the same two cars with driver figures
Announced this morning, all 1:43. Silverstone on 5 July was Ferrari’s 250th win in Formula One, Leclerc’s ninth and his first at the circuit, and the first time since Austin in October 2024 that Ferrari had two cars in the top three. BBR is also marking the same race with the 1:43 Sculpture Concept announced last week.

Minichamps has one more in the scale: 410023204, the BMW M3 CS of 2023 in green, diecast, €59.95 including VAT.

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Whitebox WB124293-O — Toyota Celica GT-Four ST185 1991, first quarter of 2027
Whitebox WB124294 — Renault 5 1972, first quarter of 2027
Bburago 18-28072 — Audi Sport Quattro S1 E2 number 5, winner of the Sanremo Rally 1985, Walter Röhrl and Christian Geistdörfer
Bburago is doing the same Röhrl S1 in 1:43 as well, under 18-38326. Sanremo 1985 was the last world championship win for a Group B Audi and the one Röhrl drove on the limit of what the car could be made to do; having it at pocket-money prices in two scales is not a bad thing.

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MGT01252-BL — Nissan Skyline GT-R with C-West bodywork, Brian O’Conner’s car from 2 Fast 2 Furious
MGT01256-BL — Dodge Charger, Dominic Toretto’s car from Fast Five
Pre-orders are open. Mini GT has been working steadily through licensed film cars — the Goldfinger Mustang landed last week — and the Fast and Furious licence is the one with the deepest bench. The silver and blue R34 is the car that made a generation of collectors, and Toretto’s Charger from the Rio sequence is the other half of the argument.

Bburago has two-car sets in the scale as well, each with a display case: 18-58019-N pairs Norris’s championship-winning MCL39 with his British Grand Prix car, and 18-58019-P does the same for Oscar Piastri.

Terry Harryman, 1938–2026
Sun Star marked the death of Terry Harryman this week with a photograph of its Rothmans Opel Ascona 400. Harryman was Ari Vatanen’s co-driver through the early eighties, read the notes that made Vatanen world champion in 1981, and won six world championship rallies from the left-hand seat. He was 87.

It is worth saying that a model company reached for one of its own products to mark it, and that nobody thought that strange. The Rothmans cars are on a lot of shelves because of what those two did in them.

A few more model images that came in today:

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Amalgam has launched the Ferrari Amalfi Spider at 1:8, 199 pieces in Rosso Tramonto, and says a Giallo Montecarlo version limited to nine is close behind. AUTOart has the Diablo SE 30th Anniversary in five colours, Minichamps has Lando Norris’s Hungarian Grand Prix winner in 1:18, ACME has shown the first photos of the 1967 King Kong GTX, and Mini GT has Tilly Masterson’s Mustang from Goldfinger. Spark has twenty-five new references out at once. Reference numbers, prices and dates are given where the manufacturers published them.

Amalgam: the Ferrari Amalfi Spider at 1:8
Launched on 18 September: the Ferrari Amalfi Spider in 1:8, finished in Rosso Tramonto over a Blu Lipari interior, limited to 199 pieces. Amalgam says the model is 58 centimetres long, built from original Ferrari CAD data, paint codes and material specifications, and put together from thousands of parts — castings, photo-etch and CNC-machined metal. The company quotes more than 3,000 hours of development and more than 300 hours to build each one. No price was published in the launch.

The second car is the more interesting line in the announcement. A Giallo Montecarlo Amalfi Spider is in the late stages of development for the fourth quarter, and it will be limited to nine pieces. Amalgam is taking registrations of interest now. Amalgam also offers its Tailor Made service on this car, which builds a replica of an owner’s own specification.

Rosso Tramonto — sunset red — is a new Ferrari colour, and launching a 1:8 model in the colour the car itself launched in is the kind of thing only a maker with direct access to Maranello can do. Nine pieces in yellow is not a limited edition in the usual sense. It is a waiting list.

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AUTOart: the Diablo SE 30th Anniversary, five colours
79150 — Verde Mic
79156 — Blu Sirena
79157 — Giallo Spyder
79158 — Viola SE30
79159 — Deep Black Metallic
AUTOart’s own promotional shot paints one car in all five colours, door by door, which is a neat way of showing the range.

The SE30 was built to mark Lamborghini’s thirtieth anniversary in 1993 — lighter than the standard Diablo, more power, rear-wheel drive only, and around 150 made. Viola SE30 is the colour everyone associates with it and will be the one that goes first. Verde Mic and Blu Sirena are the more unusual choices and arguably the better-looking ones.

First pics of the 1958 Lincoln Continental MKIII Elvis Presley in 1:18 by Sun Star



537253104 — the McLaren MCL39, Lando Norris, winner of the 2025 Hungarian Grand Prix, 1:18.

Hungary 2025 was McLaren’s two-hundredth Grand Prix win, with Oscar Piastri second behind him. For collectors building a Norris championship-year set in large scale, this is one of the cars that matters.

ACME: first photos of the King Kong GTX

A1806706 — the 1967 Plymouth Belvedere GTX “King Kong” ad car, Dar

k Blue Poly with yellow stripes and a fully detailed 426 Hemi. MSRP $144.95, ETA December 2026 to January 2027, production estimated at 426 pieces.

This is the car from Plymouth’s launch advertising for the GTX, the year the Street Hemi went into the Belvedere — “They don’t call it King Kong for nothing.” Limiting it to 426 pieces is a nice touch. The first sample photos show the stripes and the engine bay the way the ads did, and that is what a buyer of this one is paying for.

MotorHelix: a Monte Carlo Evo IV
M84008 — the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IV GSR in a Monte Carlo number 1 livery, 1:18, limited to 599 pieces, delivery late October 2026. No price published.

MotorHelix has been working through Japanese performance cars with a care usually reserved for European ones, and the Evo IV is the car that turned the Lancer from a rally homologation special into the thing people put on bedroom walls.

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GT Spirit: a violet 964 30 Jahre
GT Spirit has shown a sample of the Porsche 911 (964) 30 Jahre in 1:12, in deep violet. No reference number, edition size or date yet; more photos are promised.

The 30 Jahre is one of the cleverer special 911s. Porsche built 911 of them in 1993 for the model’s thirtieth birthday, putting the naturally aspirated 3.6 and four-wheel drive of the Carrera 4 inside the wide body of the Turbo, with no fixed rear wing. Most people have never seen one. At 1:12 the proportions will show clearly.

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Arriving in October from Stamp Modelsmi

Spark: twenty-five new, from Senna’s Detroit win to the Genesis hypercars
All 1:43 unless noted. Formula One first:

S7155 — Lotus 98T Renault, number 12, Ayrton Senna, winner, United States Grand Prix 1986
S9666 — Red Bull RB21, number 1, Max Verstappen, winner, United States Grand Prix 2025, with a “Super Max! 75 wins” pit board
S7478 — Williams FW15C, number 0, Damon Hill, winner, Belgian Grand Prix 1993
S6379 — Lotus 49B, number 1, Graham Hill, German Grand Prix 1969
S7257 — Osella FA1F, number 21, Piercarlo Ghinzani, Brazilian Grand Prix 1986
Endurance and GT:

SP838 and SP839 — Genesis GMR-001, Genesis Magma Racing, numbers 17 and 19, WEC 2026
SP725 — Genesis GMR-001, number 10, 2025 press car
S8387 — Cadillac V-Series.R, Hertz Team Jota, number 12, fourth at Le Mans 2026, Deletraz / Nato / Stevens
Si033 — McLaren F1 GTR, number 11, winner, Monza 1000km 1998, Bscher / Lees
AS080 — BMW M4 GT3 Evo, Team WRT, number 32, winner, Bathurst 12 Hour 2025, Kelvin van der Linde / Farfus / Sheldon van der Linde
SJ191 — Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo, Craft-Bamboo Racing, number 77, tenth at the Suzuka 1000km 2025
S9508 — Cougar C20, Courage Compétition, number 113, Le Mans 1989
S9770 — Porsche 911S 2.2, number 44, Le Mans 1971, Bond / Vestey
S9797 — Porsche 911 2.8 RSR, Porsche Club Romand, number 67, Le Mans 1974
US433 and US434 — Mazda RX-7, numbers 7 and 77, Daytona 24 Hours 1979
SB696 — Mazda RX-7, TWR, number 41, Spa 24 Hours 1981, Lovett / Percy
Touring cars and the rest:

SG478 — BMW M4 GT3, Schubert Motorsport, number 33, René Rast, DTM 2025
SG470 — BMW M4 GT3, Schubert Motorsport, number 11, Marco Wittmann, 2025
SG468 — Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3 Evo, Comtoyou Racing, number 008, Nicolas Baert, DTM 2025
UK048 — Ford Focus, NAPA Racing UK, number 116, Ash Sutton, Silverstone, BTCC 2025
S8780 — Porsche 911 (992) GT3 RS with Weissach Package, 2023
WAP02154526GT3 — Porsche 911 (992.2) GT3, number 3, Andial Design, 2025, in 1:18 with a display case
The Genesis cars are the ones to watch. The GMR-001 is Hyundai’s luxury brand going hypercar racing for the first time, and Spark has the press car and both race entries in one batch — the complete story of the car’s first season. Senna’s Detroit win in the black-and-gold 98T is the obvious crowd-pleaser, and a Verstappen car with its own seventy-fifth-win pit board is the kind of detail that sells a 1:43 on its own.

Matrix: a Cadillac hearse, three flower cars and a sixteen-cylinder Maserati
MX20301-184 — Cadillac Superior funeral car, 1970
MX20301-411, -412 and -413 — Cadillac Professional S&S Florentine flower car, 1951, three versions
MX51311-012 — Maserati V4 Sport 16V Spider, 1929
Arriving into stock this week. Matrix has always gone where nobody else will, and the flower car is the purest example of it — a Cadillac commercial chassis built to carry the wreaths at the front of a funeral procession, now almost completely forgotten. Three versions of one says Matrix knows exactly who collects these. The Maserati V4 is the other end of the scale: two straight-eights side by side, sixteen cylinders, Maserati’s record-breaking racing engine of 1929 put into an open two-seater.

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Mini GT: Tilly Masterson’s Mustang from Goldfinger
MGT00928 — the 1964 Ford Mustang Convertible from Goldfinger, in four packaging versions, each with period poster artwork:

MGT00928-007E — English blister
MGT00928-007F — French blister
MGT00928-007J — Japanese blister
MGT00928-007ECH — English, China edition blister

This is the white convertible Tilly Masterson drives over the Swiss passes, until Bond’s DB5 shreds its tyres with the wheel-mounted slashers. It sits naturally next to the DBS and Lotus Esprit Mini GT did in August. Four versions of one car that differ only in the language on the card is a very 1:64 idea, and it will work.

NZG: an AMG GT3 in 1:64
114600002 — the Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo 2025 presentation car, 1:64, quoted for the fourth quarter of 2026. NZG is best known for large-scale construction machinery and trucks, so a 1:64 GT3 is a move into new territory for it.

Quick hits
Almost Real has a special edition of its 1:18 Pagani Zonda Cinque of 2009, in white and carbon with a red logo. No reference number, edition size or date has been published.
Spark also has a 1:5 helmet: 5HF249, Franco Colapinto’s Bell for Alpine in the 2026 season.
IXO is teasing a new 1:18 model “taking shape” without saying what it is.

Some Scale Diecast Models News for Today:

Ferrari's first electric car in 1:18 by MR Collection, with pre-orders open on the Luce in 1:18, in seven colours, with first samples shown. Top Marques has listed twenty new 1:18 references for the first quarter of 2027 and the subjects are unusually good. BBR has the 296 GT Modificata four days after Ferrari revealed the car, Tecnomodel is doing the 1999 Ferrari F399 in four versions, and Minichamps has Kimi Antonelli's debut. Reference numbers, prices and dates are given where the manufacturers published them, and flagged where they did not.

MR Collection: the electric Ferrari, in seven colours

Pre-orders are open. All 1:18, first samples photographed:

FE052A — Azzurro La Plata
FE052B — Giallo Luce
FE052C — Rosso Dino
FE052D — Bianco Artico
FE052E — Rosso Fiammante
FE052SE — Rosso Corsa, limited to 49 pieces
FE052SE2 — Piano Black, limited to 49 pieces

The Luce is the car Maranello spent a decade insisting it would not build, revealed in May and priced beyond most of what Ferrari sells. Putting it on a shelf raises a question the hobby has not really had to answer yet. A scale model has never been able to convey an engine note, so in one sense an electric Ferrari loses nothing in miniature — the thing you hold is shape, stance, paint and panel gaps either way. Whether collectors who bought into the marque for twelve cylinders want one is a different matter, and the comment threads will tell us.

Giallo Luce being on the list is the detail worth noting. A colour named for the car suggests Ferrari, not the model maker, decided what this thing is supposed to look like.

Top Marques: twenty new 1:18s, and four of them are filthy

All quoted for the first quarter of 2027. No consumer prices published. Five programmes:

Toyota TS010, Le Mans 1992
TOP167A — number 33, second at Le Mans, Sekiya / Raphanel / Acheson
TOP167AD — the same car, dirty version
TOP167B — number 8, Lammers / Wallace / Fabi
TOP167C — number 7, Mine 500km 1992, Irvine / Kristensen / Villeneuve

The TS010 is the deep cut of the set. Toyota's 3.5-litre V10 Group C car ran for two seasons against the Peugeot 905 and never won Le Mans, and it has been almost entirely ignored in 1:18. The Mine car is the curiosity — Eddie Irvine, Tom Kristensen and Jacques Villeneuve sharing one entry, years before any of them was famous.

Lancia LC2, Martini Racing

TOP163A — number 5, winner of the Spa 1000km 1985, Patrese / Baldi / Wollek
TOP163AD — the same car, dirty version
TOP163B — number 4, Le Mans 1985, Wollek / Nannini / Cesario
TOP163C — number 5, Le Mans 1985, Baldi / Pescarolo
Ford Focus RS WRC 2001
TOP166A — number 3, second on the Monte Carlo Rally, Sainz / Moya
TOP166B — number 4, winner in Argentina, McRae / Grist
TOP166C — number 4, winner of the Acropolis, McRae / Grist
TOP166CD — the Acropolis car, dirty version
Lancia Delta Integrale 16V, Safari Rally 1991
TOP165A — number 6, winner, Kankkunen / Piironen, night configuration
TOP165AD — the same car, dirty version
TOP165B — number 1, third, Recalde / Christie
TOP165C — number 7, Biasion / Siviero
Ferrari 550 GTS Maranello, Le Mans 2003
TOP164A — number 88, Veloqx Prodrive, GTS class winner, Enge / Kox / Davies
TOP164B — number 80, Veloqx Prodrive, Davidson / Burt / Turner
TOP164C — number 72, Luc Alphand Aventures, Alphand / Policand / Dor
TOP164D — the 2003 presentation car

The dirty versions are the interesting commercial decision. Four of the twenty are the same car finished as it looked at the end — mud on the Safari Delta, brake dust and rubber pickup on the Spa Lancia, Acropolis dust on the Focus. Manufacturers have done weathered finishes before, but usually as a one-off special rather than as a parallel reference offered alongside the clean car from day one. Doing it four times in one announcement says Top Marques has found the demand.

BBR: the 296 GT Modificata, after the reveal
P18287A — Ferrari 296 GT Modificata, press version, 1:18
BBRC338A — the same car in 1:43

Both come with a plexiglass case. Ferrari revealed the car on 13 September; the model was announced on the 17th.

The 296 GT Modificata is a track-only two-seater built for the Club Competizioni GT programme — 730 horsepower from the 3.0-litre twin-turbo V6 with the restrictors off, a slotted front splitter, an enlarged hood outlet to keep radiator heat away from the intercoolers, and a rear wing lifted from the 499P. Buyers get twelve track events at circuits including Spa and Fuji as part of the deal, which is the point of the car: it is not really sold, it is enrolled in.

Four days from reveal to announcement is fast even by BBR's standards with Ferrari, and it says the model was in development before the public knew the car existed.

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Tecnomodel: the Ferrari F399
TM18-389A — 1999 Monaco Grand Prix winner, Michael Schumacher
TM18-389B — 1999 French Grand Prix, Schumacher, wet race
TM18-389C — 1999 Australian Grand Prix winner, Eddie Irvine
TM18-389D — 1999 French Grand Prix, Irvine, wet race

All four are limited editions at $335.00 MSRP, released April 2027.

1999 is the season Ferrari won the constructors' championship and lost the drivers' by two points — Schumacher broke his leg at Silverstone, Irvine led the team for six races and came up short at Suzuka. Modelling both drivers from the same 1999 French Grand Prix, a wet race that neither of them won, is a nice piece of set-building.

Minichamps: Antonelli's first points

117250112 — the Mercedes-AMG F1 W16 E Performance, Kimi Antonelli, Australian Grand Prix 2025, the race in which he scored on his Formula One debut.

We noted a fortnight ago that after Antonelli won at Monza only one manufacturer had him in the catalogue at all. This is Minichamps going back to the start of the story rather than chasing the win, and the debut car is the better subject: a rookie scoring in his first race in a works Mercedes is a thing that will be referred to for years.

Minichamps: the 993, and an Aventurine Red M3 Touring
155061101 — Porsche 911 (993) Coupé 1993, silver, diecast, €119.95 including VAT
155061131 — Porsche 911 (993) Cabriolet 1994, white, diecast, €119.95
110024010 — BMW M3 Touring 2024, Aventurine Red with black wheels and a Tartufo interior, diecast, €209.95

Two 1:10 AGV helmets came in the same bulletin — 315160096 for Valentino Rossi at Misano in 2016 and 315170046 for his 2017 season, both €15.95.

The 993 in plain silver, as a coupé, in diecast rather than resin, is the version of that car most people actually want and the one that keeps selling out. The M3 Touring at more than two hundred euros is the outlier here, and Aventurine Red over a Tartufo interior is a specification real buyers order rather than a press-car colour.

Sun Star: two blue Mercury Montclairs
5149 — 1956 Mercury Montclair hardtop, Classic White over Niagara Blue, barcode 657440051491, $148.50
5138 — 1956 Mercury Montclair open convertible, Delta Blue, barcode 657440051385, $148.50



Both are 1:18 Platinum Collection cars on pre-order, the hardtop announced this morning, and both are quoted at $148.50 on Sun Star's own store. 1956 is the year Mercury got serious about being something other than a dressed-up Ford — the hooded headlights, the reverse-angle roofline on the hardtop, and the wide chrome sweep down the flank that the two-tone paint is built around. Niagara Blue over Classic White is a factory combination and the one that makes the body side read properly; Delta Blue on the convertible is the quieter of the two and the better car with the roof down. Sun Star's Platinum cars open everywhere, which on a fifties Mercury means a decorated engine bay and a dashboard worth looking at.

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Sun Star: a Metropolitan Police Outlander

29408 — the Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV 2019 in Metropolitan Police livery, limited to 399 pieces, released October 2026. It is a commissioned edition rather than a general catalogue item.

British police cars are a collecting category of their own, and a current-generation hybrid response vehicle in full Battenburg is a far more useful thing to have than another Jaguar. Three hundred and ninety-nine is not many.

IXO: the Falken Porsches from the Nürburgring
LEGT43-33NUR25 — Porsche 911 (992) GT3 R, number 33, Falken Motorsports, Nürburgring 24 Hours 2025
LEGT43-44NUR25 — number 44, same team and race
SET2-LEGT43-NUR25 — both cars as a two-model set

Falken's green and blue is one of the few liveries in endurance racing that people can identify at a glance, and running the two-car set as its own reference is sensible — nobody who wants one wants only one.

Tecnomodel also has the Ferrari 512BB available now in 1:43, shown as a full shelf of colours. No reference numbers were published with the announcement.

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IXO America has four coming: the 1999 Viper Hennessey Venom 650R in yellow and in blue, and the 2003 Porsche Cayenne Mk1 in TECHART specification in black and white. No reference numbers or prices yet.

A tuned first-generation Cayenne is an odd and welcome choice. The Mk1 is the Porsche nobody was supposed to like and the one that paid for everything that followed, and TECHART's version of it is a very specific mid-2000s artefact.

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Diecast Masters has seven, three Caterpillar and four Peterbilt:

85274C — Cat 374D L hydraulic excavator, Core-Classics, window box, MSRP $134.99, in stock
85795 — Cat 150 LVR motor grader, High-Line, tin box, $139.99, October 2026
85797 — Cat 150 JOY AWD motor grader, High-Line, tin box, $144.99, October 2026
71089 — Peterbilt 589, 131-inch BBC with 58-inch sleeper, Legendary package, $104.99, mid-September
71220 — Peterbilt 589 day cab, tridem axle, Legendary Red, $99.99, mid-September
71221 — Peterbilt 589 with 58-inch sleeper, tandem axle, Legendary package, Legendary Red, $99.99, mid-September
71222 — Peterbilt 589 day cab, tandem axle, black, $94.99, mid-September

The two motor graders are the interesting pair — the same machine in two configurations, one of them all-wheel drive, packaged in tins rather than window boxes. Diecast Masters treating a grader as a High-Line collectible rather than a toy is a fair reflection of who actually buys these.

Quick hits
BBR has announced a second Sculpture Concept, a week after the first. This one is the Ferrari SF26 in 1:43 marking Charles Leclerc's win at Silverstone on 5 July, Ferrari's 250th victory in Formula One. Images are marked prototype; no edition size has been published for this one, where the Hamilton Barcelona edition was 144.
GT Spirit is teasing something with visible carbon detail and has not named it.
Prices here are manufacturer figures where they were published — Tecnomodel and Diecast Masters in dollars, Sun Star from its own store, Minichamps in euros including VAT. Top Marques, MR Collection, BBR, IXO and IXO America have not published consumer prices for these, so none is given.
Nothing new since Wednesday from GLM, Stamp, Kyosho, AUTOart, Spark, Mini GT or GP Replicas.

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Spark: the Bushi Rex Porsche in 1:64, 1:43, 1:18 and 1:8
Bushi Rex. Spark has confirmed it will replicate the number 8 Porsche 911 GT3 R that won the 50th Suzuka 1000km on 13 September, and that the model will be offered in four scales — 1:64, 1:43, 1:18 and 1:8. Global pre-orders open shortly. Spark says it will be the winner’s version, so expect the finishing-line trim rather than a clean pre-race car. No reference numbers, edition sizes or prices yet.

The 1:8 is the headline. Spark’s catalogue is built on 1:43 and 1:18, and a 1:8 GT3 R from a maker at Spark’s price point would be the largest thing the company has attempted. Very few manufacturers work at that size at all, and those that do — Amalgam, GT Spirit, Pocher — sit at a completely different end of the market.

The car is worth the treatment. AO Racing ran with Absolute Racing in a new livery, Bushi Rex, a samurai version of the team’s Rexy character built for the Japanese round. Laurin Heinrich, Alessio Picariello and Julien Andlauer won by close to fifty seconds. It was AO Racing’s first outright GT victory and Porsche’s first overall win at the Suzuka 1000km since 1994 — a thirty-two year gap — in the fiftieth running of the race. Liveries like this one are why 1:8 exists.

1:18
BBR: the Maserati MCXtrema in four liveries
P18246A — Maserati MCXtrema, Original livery
P18246B — Maserati MCXtrema, Tech Beast livery
P18246C — Maserati MCXtrema, Corse livery
P18246D — Maserati MCXtrema, Speed Beast livery
All four are 1:18 and all four ship with a plexiglass display case. BBR’s own store lists them at 437.98 euros each.

The real car is a good subject and an almost untouched one. Maserati built 62 MCXtremas, all track only, all sold before most people had seen one, and the shape is genuinely strange in the way that only a car exempt from road regulations can be — the shark fin running the length of the engine cover into the rear wing is the detail that will make or break the model. Four liveries at launch is BBR being confident, and the Speed Beast and Tech Beast schemes are the ones doing the work.

ACME: two Atoll Blue 1970 Pontiac GTOs
A1801231 — 1970 Pontiac GTO, Atoll Blue. MSRP $144.95, ETA fourth quarter 2026, roughly 300 pieces
A1801231VT — the same car with a vinyl top. MSRP $144.95, ETA fourth quarter 2026, roughly 300 pieces

Both have matching blue interiors, the 455 engine, working suspension, a detailed dashboard, tilting front seats and removable hub caps.

1970 is the year the GTO got the split grille, the quad headlights and the twin hood scoops, and Atoll Blue is a properly period colour rather than a crowd-pleaser. What is unusual here is the restraint: ACME has resisted the Judge stripes and the Ram Air callouts and built a plain car twice over, once with the vinyl roof. Collectors have been asking for exactly that from this tooling for years.

Norev: a full-opening Volvo 850 T-5R wagon
The 1994 Volvo 850 T-5R estate in 1:18, in black and in Goose Yellow, limited to 1,000 pieces per colour and quoted for October. Norev is doing it as a full-opening diecast, not sealed resin. Reference numbers have not been published yet.

The T-5R wagon is one of the great nineties cult cars — the boxy Volvo estate that went touring car racing, in the yellow that nobody could believe Volvo signed off. It has been done before in resin and as a sealed model, but a full-opening diecast version, with Norev’s recent classic Porsches as the benchmark for what its metal tooling can do, is a different proposition. A thousand per colour is not many.

GT Spirit: the Corvette ZR1X
The hottest selling model of the year thus far, GT1027 — Chevrolet Corvette ZR1X, 2026, in black, 1:18, will be arriving in November 2026.

The ZR1X is the twin-turbo hybrid at the top of the C8 range and the most powerful Corvette ever built. In black it will live or die on how GT Spirit handles the aero, because the wing, the splitter and the underbody work are the entire visual argument for the car. Sealed resin, as always with this line.

AUTOart: a Grand Prix White 930
The Porsche 911 Turbo 3.0 (930) in Grand Prix White, expected in December. No reference number has been published.

This follows the Guards Red car announced last week. Grand Prix White on a narrow-body 3.0 Turbo with the whale tail is the reference specification for the shape — it is what the press cars wore, and it shows the bodywork better than any colour AUTOart could pick.

1:64
LookSmart takes the SF-26 down to 1:64
LS64044 — Ferrari SF-26, Italian Grand Prix 2026, Lewis Hamilton
LS64045 — Ferrari SF-26, Italian Grand Prix 2026, Charles Leclerc
Both quoted for the first quarter of 2027. No prices or edition sizes.

LookSmart announced the same two cars in 1:18 and 1:43 yesterday, so the interesting part is not the subject but the scale. LookSmart is a 1:18 and 1:43 resin house; a dedicated LS64 reference series is a move into territory Spark, Mini GT and Tarmac have had largely to themselves. Whether a 1:64 Formula One car at LookSmart’s standards can be priced against those is the question, and the company has not answered it yet.

Quick hits
Two makers announced models of the same weekend’s racing within days of the flag. Spark has the Suzuka winner in four scales; nobody else has announced anything from the fiftieth running at all.
Scale creep is running in both directions this week. Spark is going up to 1:8 and LookSmart is going down to 1:64, and both are moves outside the range each company built its reputation on.
Prices here are manufacturer or importer figures where they were published — ACME in dollars and BBR in euros. Spark, Norev, GT Spirit, AUTOart and LookSmart have not published consumer prices for these, so none is given.
Nothing new since yesterday from GLM, Stamp, KK-Scale, Kyosho, Tecnomodel, Sun Star, Minichamps, Mini GT or GP Replicas.