Bugatti Veyron, McLaren P1, Airfix, 1/24(ish)

[Matt Bacon]

Somewhere between a snap kit and Lego, these are part of Airfix's new Quickbuild range. They're sort of 1/24 (The McLaren scales out at 1/22.5 in one direction and 1/26 in the other!) I reckon they capture the essential look of the cars pretty well -- they aren't "Cars" style caricatures at any rate. And they might get a new generation excited about having really cool cars at 1/24/5 life size on their shelves!

....and they're the closest we have today to plastic kits of either hypercar, so I'm not complaining! Good practice for photography technique, too...

(And apologies if my thread title got anyone's hopes up unnecessarily!)

bestest,

M.

Edited June 14, 2015 by Matt Bacon

[Chuck Most]

I like them!

If messing around with the Revell Build-and-Play kits has taught me one thing, it's that even a somewhat toyish, super-simplified kit can be made to look very good, provided the basics are already right. Looks like they are on these.

[jeffs396]

I wonder if they'll be available in the US???

None came up on eBay...

[jaymcminn]

Not bad for the shelf. The lack of a full-detail Veyron kit is still mind-boggling. I'm hoping we get a P1 from Aoshima...