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On 31.1.2019 at 4:24 AM, Motor City said:

That Lamborghini Miura looks sharp.  Is the kit any good?

Well that's actually a Jota (although they call it "Miura Jota", but imho that's wrong). The Miura released by Italeri around 2 years ago (with the yellow car on the box) is  the old ESCI kit which is totally out-of-proportion in the door-area. Compare that to a Hasegawa kit and it's pretty obvious that it's just a very bad kit. AFAIK there has not been a Jota by Esci so there is hope that this could be an Airfix kit, for example. I would stick to Hasegawa anyway, Miura and Jota are goods kits from them and easily available...

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On 1/30/2019 at 9:55 AM, Mike999 said:

The 300SL Gullwing is probably Italeri's own kit.  Which hasn't been available for a while, and according to Internet Gullwing fans, is the best 1/24-25 kit of that car.  It was first released in the late '80s or early '90s, based off Italeri's 300SL roadster.  The Heller kit dated from about 1979. 

I recently got a package deal on 2 of the Heller Gullwing kits on eBay for a good price.  They don't have the space-frame detail of the AMT 1/25 kit, which is OK. I want to build a barn find, and I may drop one of the engines into a hot rod or something.

Caveat emptor. As I’ve mentioned before, the Italeri Gullwings in any scale are based on the roadster, which has more pronounced fenders and a larger grille than actual Gullwings. In 1/16, the Minicraft version has a more accurate body shape. The Italeri roadster kits are very accurate except for the windshield shape.

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On 2.2.2019 at 4:17 AM, Exotics_Builder said:

I agree.  The F12 TdF has more panache in my opinion.  

As regards Italeri, these in my stash would be great to see reissued

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I have several each of those, but .... you can't have enough of classic Ferraris!

If someone would release a 250 GT/L (Berlinetta LUsso)!!!

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On 31.1.2019 at 4:42 AM, Michael jones said:

I wonder if the Lancia LC2 is the protar kit? Hope not, but still want it anyway, along with the escort and of course the Tamiya Toyota Lemans racer :)

As Italeri possesses the former Protar dies (they released several of their 1/9 bike kits and some other kits) I'm sure that this is the ex-Protar kit (as is the Alfa Giulietta/Giulia Spider)

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On 31.1.2019 at 4:24 AM, Motor City said:

That Lamborghini Miura looks sharp.  Is the kit any good?

I think that this is a modified ESCI Miura.

That was so bad that I sold it long time ago before Hasegawa came out with their perfect proportioned Miura SV. Though ESCI's was an earlier version (with the "eyelashes" around the headlights) they got it totally wrong.

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