1/43rd scale Upcoming New Releases

[jaymtford]

I thought I would make a topic to list some of the upcoming 1/43rd scale kits.
I will start it off with two recent announcements from the past few days.

Tameo will be making the X-Wing Ferrari F300 from the 1998 San Marino GP



Cigale43 will be making the Fittipaldi Copersucar F5A from the 1978 Brazilian GP

[Alex0077]

Cigale43 is very active this year, this is not their first kit. They will sell only from own ebay (in USA) or also via Tameo?

[jaymtford]

Here is the dealer list for Cigale43

[F1tommy]

Great idea, and ads variety. 1/43rd, the one scale you can get almost everything in. I have build alot of Tameo and Meri kits over the years, not to mention Provence Moulage.

[dgwoodward2]

I remember the good old day when between Tameo and Meri, the entire current year field would be produced. Really wish someone would work up a modern 1/43 F1 car with modern techniques like Tameo is doing on the revamped older kits. Even BBR was doing a built and a kit version for awhile but then moved to just doing built versions.

[Alex0077]

It seems that they have no site,
so I compilated the full list of kits for now.

CFK001 Simtek S941 1994 Pacific GP 1/43
CFK002 Simtek S941 1994 San Marino GP 1/43
CFK003 Simtek S941 1994 Monaco GP 1/43
CFK004 Arrows A18 1997 Hungarian GP 1/43
CFK005 Arrows A18 1997 Japanese/Luxembourg GP 1/43
CFK006 ???
CFK007 Copersucar F5A Ford 1978 Brazilian GP 1/43

[jorgeralvear]

Great idea and much appreciated as I love 1/43 kits. Renaissance models has a great selection of kits too especially for rally and Le Mans of years past. Model Factory Hiro has some great subjects too.

[jaymtford]

1955 Vanwall kit by French kit maker Princess of Tumult.
http://www.princess-of-tumult.com/EN/pr ... va01en.htm



There is also a video of all the kit parts on their FB page
https://fb.watch/mXcmFcuOn3/

It looks like a nicely made kit with a lot of photo-etch details. The decal sheet looks to cover all the drivers and possibly races of the 1955 season.

The price of the kit is 110 euros. I have emailed to find out about shipping costs. I will definitely be ordering a kit for myself, but if anyone in the US is interested as well it may make sense to combine orders to save on shipping costs. I will gladly order all of the kits and ship via USPS to all interested parties. It should only cost about $6 to $10 to ship within the US.
Please PM me if you have any interest.

[jaymtford]

A new brand called FC Models popped up on the GPM site today.
Of particular interest to F1 builders and Gilles Villeneuve fans are kits of his 1974 championship winning snowmobile and his 1974 Formula Atlantic March 74B
Other subjects are a bunch of IMSA Camaros and Subaru Impreza rally cars from the US Rally Championship and X-Games. Includes cars for drivers Ken Block, Travis Pastrana and Colin McRae (X-games)

Regarding kit quality according to GPM - "Sharply mastered and crisply cast resin/metal kits with low parts count, sensible levels of photo etched detailing parts, printed on acetate windows and finely screen-printed decals. Instructions are very basic with pictures of built models to follow."

Pricing seems reasonable too.

You can see the first batch of releases here
https://www.grandprixmodels.com/tagged/3BB5BA.aspx

[MoFo]

They look rather Provence Moulage-ey.

https://www.grandprixmodels.com/FCM4300 ... l-Kit.aspx