AUTOart unveiled official photos of the upcoming Formula One classic the Lotus 99T/Honda #11 car. The model is replicated after the same vehicle that raced the 1987 Japanese Gran Prix. It was driven by S.Nakajima. We definitely likely what we see! From their street series a new colour is shown for the upcoming Corvette C7 Z06. Laguna Blue Tintcoat is the next colour in the C7 series. Though based on the initial images the Blue is somewhat off from the OEM paint offered by Chevrolet.
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Very interesting – in that year, Nakajima was a partner of Ayrton Senna. Avtoart wants to buy up the rights to the brand Senna at Minichamps? In any case, will have the opportunity to remake the model into a race car of Ayrton…
MINICHAMPS is better with those rights, thank you AUTOart. MINICHAMPS at least makes them out of metal. Or are they resin?
Bad logic. The material really doesn’t matter (it’s not like the real thing is metal-bodied), and resin is better suited to F1 cars than metal as it’s damn-near impossible to do the complex aero parts in metal. Even on Minichamps’ metal F1 cars, things like the rear wings and floor are invariably plastic. Besides, very few of Minichamps’ F1 cars have ever opened, and I’m pretty certain that NONE of the Senna cars opened.
Seems like AutoArt updated the color to Admiral Blue since Laguna Blue is being discontinued on the real car this year.
AutoArts preproduction photos of the Z06 features mismatching inner door panels as well.
Must be a manufacturing error, so assuming all produced Z06 have the same error?
This has been discussed elsewhere – it isn’t an error, it’s based on a trim option for the 1:1.
So sad that they don’t release the Lamborghini Huracan or the Aventador in this color :(
Anybody checked those seatbelts on Lotus ? AGAIN ???? Its a joke…and the model would be probably around 300,- Euro I suppose. Ridiculous. Anybody could do this better, I mean ANYBODY !!! Any other explanation, than that AA is doing it on purpose, to piss everybody off, simple could not exist…
LOL, I really love that its a Honda powered F1 car that opens, but your right about the seat belts…. I mean hell Tremonia sells a race seat belt kit for like +/-$10,
I used one to convert my minichamps ’96 schumaher F1 from with driver to without (huge difference!).
I got the model last week. For the record it is GBP200, not anywhere near 300 Euros. The quality of the model is exquisite, admittedly it is not an Exoto or CMC but then again it is not in their price range. It is really well put together. I have the Minichamps model as well and it is clear which is better. My only regret is that it doesn’t have the full Camel logos. A great model for the price.