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Post by 105epaul on Feb 17, 2024 8:34:07 GMT -5
Another here who has a number of Starline models, they were excellent value. Indeed I used to help a friend who sold models at the splendid Sandown toyfair and on one occasion he had some models for five pounds each, I sold a load to a Russian guy who had a model shop. I might have bought some myself. Nice Alfa, I like those and sometimes a gorgeous metallic green one visits local shows.
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Post by jager on Feb 18, 2024 6:37:58 GMT -5
I don't have any Starlines in my collection, but they made some great Vfm models, this one included. What happened to them...are they still around?
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Post by GBOAC002 on Feb 18, 2024 7:50:18 GMT -5
My Starline models - one car in three different colours. The superb Lamborghini 350 GTV in diecast metal . Dark green matching colour of the original show car, and Silver, in 2007 and then Silver-blue five years later in 2012. Average cost 9GBP each. Unbelievably cheap for such good detail. The Alfas they made were also good and well priced as Paul says.
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Post by JSB33 on Feb 18, 2024 8:10:37 GMT -5
It wears blue very, very well.
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Post by Alfaholic on Feb 18, 2024 19:18:36 GMT -5
Isn't she a beauty Martin! We share this exact model, bought it 2011 when Starlines were plentiful - 17 different ones here! Superb value for money and display as models way above their price. Starline along with M4 really were knocking out some winners for a while Love the almost slab-side design the the tall greenhouse - very purposeful and smart. Almost see a little Triumph 2000 Mark II in the shape - both the work of Italians For a 1960s slab-sided 4-door box, it's looks are still beguiling to me Brooks! Lovely model, great colour! I also have that Alfa, but mine is in a less adventurous darker blue! I think that was one of the choices on offer when I purchased mine Julio, but I went with "Le Mans Azure" purely because of the LM name! One of my favourite Alfas. I have the same model in a different colour and I'm very happy with it. It manages to purvey a sense of class while being an everyman car to me Tom. Another here who has a number of Starline models, they were excellent value. Indeed I used to help a friend who sold models at the splendid Sandown toyfair and on one occasion he had some models for five pounds each, I sold a load to a Russian guy who had a model shop. I might have bought some myself. Nice Alfa, I like those and sometimes a gorgeous metallic green one visits local shows. Now that I have it Paul, I can definitely see the attraction of Starlines. I don't have any Starlines in my collection, but they made some great Vfm models, this one included. What happened to them...are they still around? I'm not sure they ever made any LM racers Ian, not that I can think of anyway - maybe some Mille Miglia cars? A Google search offers up this website, with 2019 being the latest entry? www.starlinemodels.de/My Starline models - one car in three different colours. The superb Lamborghini 350 GTV in diecast metal . Dark green matching colour of the original show car, and Silver, in 2007 and then Silver-blue five years later in 2012. Average cost 9GBP each. Unbelievably cheap for such good detail. The Alfas they made were also good and well priced as Paul says. Those Lamborghinis are good choices Iain. They seem to have only done a small number of Alfas, but I'll keep looking. It wears blue very, very well. We are in full agreement here Jeff........ with the next one I'm guessing not so much
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Post by Alfaholic on Feb 18, 2024 19:20:47 GMT -5
OK, I’ll admit that this one is a total indulgence. Spark have already provided five 2022 F1 Alfa Romeos, plus three cars from the pre-season Test (in a show of restraint I only added one of the Test cars!). The five race cars were one each for Valtteri Bottas and Guanyu Zhou from the season opening Bahrain GP, and then the unique red, white, and green liveried cars from the Azerbaijan GP. In order to extract some more funds from the wallets of Alfa Romeo and/or F1 tragics like myself, they also released Bottas’ car from the Emilia Romagna GP. Now to the balance the books they have provided one more of Zhou’s cars. For this, the third 2022 Guanyu Zhou car, Spark have modelled his mount from the 2022 Italian GP, one of three races in which he scored points that year. A single point came in the opening Bahrain GP, and this was followed by 4 points for an 8th place in the Canadian GP. Another seven races would pass before the Chinese driver left a race with a point in his pocket. The 2022 Italian GP was held at the home of motorsport, Monza in northern Italy. I am not a religious man, but the closest I have come to a religious experience was visiting Monza for the first time in 1996. We were passing by and dropped in just to take some photos and happened to stumble on a small club race meeting for Formula Fiat (or Abarth) single seaters. We sat in the imposing grandstands on the front straight with about five other people, the pits in front of us and the disused banking visible to our right. I’m sure I felt the ghosts of the great racers from the past as we sat there. Anyway, back to the model. While the Italian National Team, Ferrari, dominated the local’s thoughts at the front of the field, the “other” Italian marque from just down the road in Milan were mired in the bottom half of the field. Zhou managed to qualify in 14th place on the 20-car grid, two places behind Bottas. In the race itself, Ferrari felt that a win went begging following a late race Safety car caused when Daniel Riccardo’s Red Bull expired with eight laps to go. While Ferrari were aggrieved that the Safety Car was not withdrawn with one or two laps remaining, Riccardo’s retirement did mean that Zhou was able to slip into 10th place, to score his last World Championship point of the year. Bottas was the first car to be lapped, in 13th place. Spark have gone to the effort, as is to be expected, of providing a car that carries some different detail to the other two Zhou 2022 cars. The livery may be the same as the Azerbaijan car, however there are detail changes to the sponsors and the front and rear wings, as well as the floor are different, not to mention the colour markings on the tyres (OK, I'm clutching at straws here to help justify the purchase ). I am now done with 2022 Alfa Romeo F1 cars – unless of course I look at the more expensive offerings from Minichamps. Spark Alfa Romeo C42 – Ferrari 1.6 Turbo Alfa Romeo F1 Team – Guanyu Zhou 2022 Italian GP – 10th
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Post by raceoddity on Feb 18, 2024 23:02:50 GMT -5
There are no words Martin.....or at least none you want me to say. I share your proclivity, just in slightly different marques; It's alright though, I know a good therapist.She won't treat me as I'm her father, but I think I could get you a good rate... nice model BTW
Cheers from the Northern Office
Scott
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Post by DeadCanDanceR on Feb 18, 2024 23:49:58 GMT -5
Great looking model, even if it’s an F1 car!
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Post by Tom on Feb 19, 2024 0:54:34 GMT -5
I actually prefer the livery over most of its competitors, including Ferrari.
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Post by JSB33 on Feb 19, 2024 5:16:04 GMT -5
I agree with Tom. it is the best livery in F1
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Post by reeft1 on Feb 19, 2024 6:26:05 GMT -5
I agree with Tom. it is the best livery in F1 Agreed
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Post by jager on Feb 19, 2024 9:25:24 GMT -5
So now we're collecting floor variations! What do you do, display the cars upside down ... I guess it's good for a Zhou diorama .
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Post by raceoddity on Feb 20, 2024 18:57:02 GMT -5
Ouch, Ian !! Although the car looks eerily symmetrical whether its upside down or no. Still like that livery even if I have to stand on my head to see it.
Cheers
Scott
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Post by Alfaholic on Feb 20, 2024 21:54:46 GMT -5
There are no words Martin.....or at least none you want me to say. I share your proclivity, just in slightly different marques; It's alright though, I know a good therapist.She won't treat me as I'm her father, but I think I could get you a good rate... nice model BTW
Cheers from the Northern Office
Scott
Sign me up Scott (although I'm thinking that sharing a couple of quiet drinks with the therapist's father and a chat about motorsport would probably do the job just as well, if not better . Great looking model, even if it’s an F1 car! I'll consider that to be high praise indeed Julio . I actually prefer the livery over most of its competitors, including Ferrari. You'll get no argument from me Tom. It will be interesting to see if this year's non-Alfa livery will be as high on people's lists! - I'm guessing not, but then again I won't need to add any of the models . I agree with Tom. it is the best livery in F1 It's good that they have managed to keep it looking this good, considering the current fashion for acres of plain carbon fibre that afflicts F1 cars these days (I know, I know it's for weight reasons, but sheesh...). I agree with Tom. it is the best livery in F1 Agreed That's 3 votes, enough to declare it as the fan favourite around here . So now we're collecting floor variations! What do you do, display the cars upside down ... I guess it's good for a Zhou diorama . Hmmmm, that is a very flat surface with plenty of room for more that a few 1/43s. I wonder how much Sauber want for an old broken chassis? Ouch, Ian !! Although the car looks eerily symmetrical whether its upside down or no. Still like that livery even if I have to stand on my head to see it.
Cheers
Scott
OK, I'll admit I wasn't picturing you as being that flexible Scott, but fair play to you .
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Post by Alfaholic on Feb 20, 2024 21:57:15 GMT -5
Considering my lifelong interest in motorsport I am almost embarrassed to say that this is the first Lola to be added to my collection. Lola’s efforts in F1 are patchy at best, surprising as they were successful in most other forms of racing they were involved with, particularly sportscars, Indy, and Formula 5000/A. In a stop-start F1 journey, Lola’s only win at the top level came in the 1967 Italian GP when John Surtees won in his Honda RA300 – aka the Hondola or Lola T130, as the chassis had been built by Lola Cars in the UK. Fast forward to the early 1990s, and Lola’s most recent F1 participation had finished at the end of 1991 when their arrangement with Larrousse F1 ended. In 1993 they were back for another try. The team that Lola would join up with in 1993 was BMS Scuderia Italia. The team from Brescia in Italy had been in F1 since 1988 and had established themselves as a mid-grid team, albeit with an up-and-down results record. In 1989 and 1991 they had managed their best placing in the Constructors Championship, with 8th place in both years – this was in the era when 19-20 teams were competing. In 1992 they slipped to 10th place and Giuseppe Lucchini, the team owner, decided that changes were required. The biggest change in 1993 for Scuderia Italia was the chassis constructor. Since entering F1, the Italian firm Dallara had built their cars, but for 1993 Lucchini ended that contract and formed a relationship with Lola. Eric Broadley’s team came up with the T93/30, a simple and conventional car for the time, albeit without the active suspension that the cars at the front of the grid had available. The powerplant in the back of the Scuderia Italia Lola was the same one used by the team in 1992, the Ferrari 040 3.5-litre V12. This was one spec behind the engine being used by Scuderia Ferrari in 1993. The other major change for Scuderia Italia in 1993 was the drivers. The 1992 drivers, JJ Lehto and Pierluigi Martini were out, replaced by Michele Alboreto, who was near the end of his illustrious F1 career, and Luca Badoer, an F1 Rookie and the reigning F3000 Champion – there could be no excuses here. Unfortunately for the team, the drivers were the best thing about 1993. Early season testing showed the car was not quick and this was confirmed in the first few races. Neither driver scored a point all season, and they had several retirements as well as a handful of DNQs. The team’s best result was Badoer’s 7th place in the San Marino GP at Imola. Alboreto would later say the T93/30 was the worst F1 car he ever drove. With three races still to go, Lucchini announced the end of the team’s relationship with Lola, and they missed the last two flyaway GPs in Japan and Australia. The model is Badoer’s car from the Belgian GP. He qualified 24th out of 26 cars and raced to 13th place, 2 laps behind Damon Hill’s winning Williams. PW – Formula 1 The Car Collection Lola T93/30 – Ferrari 3.5 BMS Scuderia Italia – Luca Badoer 1993 Belgian GP – 13th
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