Leigh’s Diecast Diary

Today it was Norev’s turn to announce some new diecast subjects, all in 1:18 scale.

Amongst the new 1:18 road cars announced were the 2006 Alfa Romeo Brera in red (NV187903), the 2009 Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4 Spyder in white (NV187960), and the infamous 2009 Tata Nano in white (NV186622).

From racing, Norev has already announced four 1:18 2010 Le Mans cars! These are the ‘works’ Aston Martin LMP1 (NV182761), Team Signature Aston Martin LMP1 (NV182762), ‘works’ Peugeot 908 (NV184802), and Team Oreca Peugeot 908 (NV184803). With the two ‘works’ cars, we expect Norev to replicate the car that will finish higher in the race, as that is what it has done in the past.

Norev has also announced a new DTM Audi, Tom Kristensen’s car from 2009 (NV188329).

Tomorrow we’re off to Aachen to give a presentation to Minichamps at its headquarters, following on from the presentation we gave when we were visited at our Guildford offices in January. That’s a long-winded way of saying there won’t be a diary entry from me tomorrow!

Welcome to this week’s Diecast Legends Podcast, which brings you the latest releases in the world of diecast models. This week we have new releases from Minichamps, Spark and Bizarre. Minichamps has released the Hamilton 2009 McLaren and the 2009 Le Mans winning Peugeot in 1:18.  Spark has released the Hakkinen 1992 Lotus and the 1980 Daytona winning Porsche and Bizarre has released the 1927 Sunbeam Speed Record car.

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The diecast models featured on this weeks podcast are;

Minichamps 1/18 Hamilton 2009 McLaren MP4/24
Minichamps 1/18 Kovalainen 2009 McLaren MP4/24
Minichamps 1/18 #9 2009 Peugeot 908 1st Le Mans
Minichamps 1/43 Fisichella 2009 Force India VJM02
Minichamps 1/43 Porsche 597 Jagdwagen
Spark 1/43 Hakkinen 1992 Lotus 102D
Spark 1/43 Tambay 1985 Renault RE60B
Spark 1/43 Cheever 1984 Alfa Romeo 184T
Spark 1/43 #2 1980 Porsche 935 1st Daytona
Spark 1/43 Lotus Europa S1
Spark 1/43 RUF CTR3
Bizarre 1/43 1927 Sunbeam Speed Record Car

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