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My first encounter with Paul Fisher’s model kits has been 30 years ago: I built 2 Ferrari 312 P Spiders in commission for a modeling shop in Vienna – the only thing left are some color prints (scanned 1 hour ago) and good memories of this excellent kit : easy to build, but looked great when finished (these were my very first resin kits) The kit was supposed to represent the 1969 Brands Hatch car (Chris Amon/Pedro Rodriguez) which took 4th place behind 3 Porsche 908 after several problems in the race. During the weekend, the car got spoilers and tabs applied in order to overcome aerodynamic problems. Enzo is said to have not been amused by this at all: it destroyed the clean look of the original version. As I had a free choice in building these two, I went for Brands Hatch (had to find all the necessary decals, because back then only #60 was included) and built the other as the earlier Monza car, driven by Chris Amon/Mario Andretti with # 1. Though this DNF, it shows off the beautiful uncluttered lines of the car, devoid of any fins and tabs, apart from a small lip on the rear deck (like a “Gurney flap”) It is very sad that Paul lost everything in the great fire and we will never see these again (at least I have some unbuilt Fisher racecars left in my own stash). On to the pictures (my Hasegawa 1988 Jaguar in the back is only for demonstrating almost 20 years of race car evolution): Some shots during building: a quick mock-up of the bare resin and of the primered cars before being spraypainted (auto-laquers from the can) - the background book photo shows Mario at Monza. Below, the Monza car ready for decaling and before final assembly. At last, both together. Comments, as always, welcome !