This one just crossed our path, new comer Modellers Collection Model or MCM will be executing 1:18 resin Koenigsegg One:1. The initial colour option is only Silver and the model will feature a removable engine and roof with a carbon fibre base. Limited to 50 units and priced at just under $600 US. With the plethora of options out there, specifically the full access AUTOart option (cheaper too). Where can this possibly go? If you’re interested release date is noted as April/May 2023.
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We do not need this while you can have the great AUTOart version. There are so many supercars not available in 1/18 that they could have chosen… maybe in their future releases if they keep existing?
Let’s produce a model hardly anyone will buy… AA if you want opening, frontiart if you want resin. What a complete waste of time and effort imagine all the other models they could have produced!!
Hey, atleast it’s not an Aventador or a Hurracan with somekind of LW kit on them lol We have to shake their hand for going to the other favourite brand of the teenagers. Who need diversity in this hobby nowadays, if it’s not a lambo it will be a koenigsegg or some other supercar with perverse and ghastly design. What we need next is an Apollo IE sealed ofcourse,made of plastic/resin, glued wheels cos if they move is too 2019, on a carbon fiber base that’s more expensive than the model and lots of glue residue on it. Chinese fingerprints are a bonus that makes it even more desirable and finally a “limited edition of 1424792 pieces” , because if a model is limited then it’s better than one which has 360 degrees access and a true form replicating the original as good as it could be!
I agree that playing with Limited Editions is cheap and only targeting at increase of retail price. But I wonder what 360 deg access models you are waiting for?
Let me express my expectations for you answer, based on bashing Lamborghini and Koenigsegg, and my experience about such complaints, as spot on FB forums for collectors: you either want:
– 360 deg access to either some hopeless boxes on wheels, meaning daily used cars, which you can just buy in 1:1 and drive it daily (you need some car anyway, why not the one which bothers your 1:18 wishes?). Alternatively you think about some hopeless box on wheels from the past, like some 40-20 years old Mercedes or BMW .
– 360 deg access to one of thousands of versions of American Muscle cars, which differed between each other in the shape of door handle, color of seats or the shape of air intake on the front hood.
– 360 deg access to 188352538349 versions of “Ferrari 488 Pizda” or other 488 or 458 derived Ferrari.
Of course I may be perfectly wrong. Maybe you collect some greatly varying supercars and sports cars like me. But I don’t get why you are so upset about resin Apollo IE. The truth is that there is simply not much people who like this kind of design – I have MANY friends who think that whatever looks differently than VW Passat B5 is “a toy car” and is outrageous. Supercars collectors (like me) are just slightly distorted maniacs – most people like more usual cars. The cost of development of opening car in diecast is horrendously high. Especially with very complicated body lines (like A IE example). So if there is 500 people who would buy some diecast, then it may turn out that the company will not earn a single penny – instead it will lose tenth or even hundreds of thousands. That’s when resin is a good solution. Cost of development is way lower and company will earn even releasing 50 pcs. And the level of details is usually FAR better than any diecast. At the cost of non spinning wheels. But tell me – how often you play with your models, how often you push them of the table? With the rising number of models even I stopped doing it. They just stand there in the vitrine, hoarded and squeezed…
Ghost of HPD diecast, is that you? Lol
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Hehe, I see some “hardcore” collectors comments here :D Well, of course there is a grain of truth in what you write, but… Just a grain.
AA’s One:1 is known to be one of the worst AA’s attempts to execute something using composite. People like it because it is One:1 and then they complain how bad is molded carbonfiber (especially in the interior, side by side with decals…), how engine lacks details, how wheels are poorly executed, etc. So this is not freakin “holy grail of 1:18 scale” for sure, even though it can be opened.
Now FrontiArt. They even produced opening one, in resin. BUT… their carbonfiber application at that time was horrible. Looks like it was some kind of hydrodipping, with a lot of waves and bends in CF pattern around the car’s body. Carbonfiber was even misaligned on some panels – it changed direction on neighboring panels (especially on opening versions), which was against the look of real cars.
So – if MCM is about to release nicely detailed engine, which can be somehow accessed, nicely detailed interior which also can be accessed, if it will execute wheels, headlights, engine and interior properly, and if they apply all the carbonfiber elements correctly – they will be the first to provide somehow correct 1:18 representation of One:1.
You are not comparing apples to apples, the Fronti-Art open effort is 3 times more expensive that the AUTOart. And neither is perfect as you state. So with the market saturated with these models in various forms, why would a manufacturer even conclude there is more cheese to eat?
Please don’t buy BMW. Dacia also takes you from A to B. There is an audience for everyone, gentlemen. I am a Koenigsegg collector and I never considered buying an AA. I don’t like plastic models. And open models only buy if its a high-end (AA made three or four high end models in their history, from the great AA era of real Signature on diecast). I have the Ones from Frontiart, open and closed, and if this satisfies me I would also analyze buying it.
Sorry, we respectfully disagree. Our opinion or direction was driven by the complete saturation or availability of the above model. Their efforts would have been better served elsewhere, meaning something outside the box. AUTOart examples aren’t bad nor are they perfect. BUT anyone who has been in the hobby for a number of years would lean towards a fully open model rather than a static one. Even if the argument is these are display pieces that don’t ever or rarely get touched. Knowing that option is present is definitely more satisfying.
Question, why would you require sealed and open options from Fronti-Art?
No, you are not honestly talking about the saturation of this model. You speak from the conviction that the Auto Art model has already closed the market for this model. And that is not true. The Auto Art model, and any car that AA makes at the moment, does not close the market to anyone, because at most they are mid-end pieces. Maybe they have closed the competition for the Skyline Silhouette, Mazda 787B, Alfa 33TT12 or Pagani Zonda R. I showed to you that a Koenigsegg fan is not even interested in that manufacturer as an option for a Koenigsegg replica. Not even if it is only done by Auto Art. You down a editorial line of the site from a place that does not represent the entire universe of collectors.
In the content of the note you never mention FrontiArt, which is really the one who, in any case, is duplicating the effort of this new brand. This does not compete against Auto Art. Nobody makes plastic models. This competes with Fronti. And it will only sell if when it shows the finished model it offers something differential over the existing FA model like improving details or canceling flaws, for example. Perhaps it even achieves it by offering different colors (apart from 1564 versions of FA), which will not convince me or you but if it will convince others, what is the background of this discussion.
You always speaks from YOUR PLACE and not from all collectors when he mentions that “BUT anyone who has been in the hobby for a number of years would lean towards a fully open model rather than a static one.”. Who gave that title to you? I am an old collector and someday in my beginnings i want diecast open models and today I want high quality resin models because they give me greater satisfaction due to the quality of the finishes and the paints used, also for the way I can enjoy them (sitting next to me at the computer). But nobody is interested in my case, I’m just one more. Like you.
There are thousands of brands, models, cars, ¡even scales!, ways to display them, times to enjoy them, you can buy them made or make them yourself, and you want to group them all under one line of thought?
I have both versions of FrontiArt because I first bought the sealed version and then the open one. In any case, I never thought of selling the sealed one, and probably if it were the other way around I would have bought both anyway, because both offer me different satisfactions, even having them next to each other. I can display one sealed (as it comes standard, heh) and the other all open. And so I can do several things. I can even buy an Auto Art to make a trio if I want. Saw? Today you learned that there is not a single way of thinking and even less a single way of collecting.
In this the buggy before the horse or horse before the buggy… Getting back to the original post, AUTOart was used as a measure to illustrate there are other models as capable or more skillful. Again, this is subjective. MCM falls short on its introduction model, there are many other options and gaps they could easily of ventured into. Was this the safe choice, maybe. Will it pay dividends, time will tell.
Fronti-Art is a great example for sure, but we have constantly called them out on a lack of creativity and bench strength with their program. It seems their only focus in the last few years is Koenigsegg. Do they make a capable model, definitely. Do many play in the sandbox of $1000 models. No.