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All items are 1/43rd scale unless otherwise stated. All prices are subject to change due to exchange rate

Automodelli Studio will be closed from Friday 20th Sept until Monday 9th Oct whilst we move the business to its new home in NSW

I thank you all for your custom over the last 16 years it has been great fun. New owner Paul D’Orival will take over the day to day running of the business assisted by David Whitehead and I will be looking after the website/news letter for a while.

Contact should be made via the website www.automodellistudio.com and it will be forwarded to the appropriate person

Latest Kit

Kits underway

We are well underway with the Mk2 Lola T70 Can Am cars. There will be a total of seven to begin with, others will follow. Sometime in the future there will be Mk3 and Mk3B Can Am versions too.

We have a couple of new Willment Cobras being worked on both of which Frank Gardner drove.

Another in the pipeline is a 4 door Cortina GT raced by the Geoghegan Brother at Bathurst 1963
The Ford 3lt P68s are coming along, these should be done before the end of the year.

• AMM068-1 all version of chassis 1 Brands Hatch & Nurburgring
• AMM068-2 all version of chassis 2 Nurburgring – Spa – Oulton Park – Silverstone
• AMM068-3 all version of chassis 3 Brands Hatch & Silverstone

All items are 1/43rd scale unless otherwise stated. All prices are subject to change due to exchange rate

Good news for all you F1 collectors Tameo have bought up the TWU range and will be reissuing them soon. This will of course include the Brabham/Jones/Schenken and Amon cars

JPS/GPM

Rarely do we see new Le Mans kits these days JPS/GPM have just made two Porsche 911 RSR’s #93 & #94 ran in the GT Pro class #93 driven by Kiwi Earl Bamber kit around $100

BT8

At last we have version 2 and 3 of the BT8 these are only available to newsletter subscribers and will not be sold through the trade. Kit price $75 built to order $225

Below SC-5-64 BRM V8 Team rosebud this is as JB drove at the Lavant Cup Goodwood 1964

Below SC-7-64 2.75lt Climax as raced by JB at Laguna Seca 1964

Lola T70Mk3B GT

Also we have six of the re made Marsh Models Lola T70Mk3B’s Kit $100 or built to order $295

Left to right – Brian Redman ——–Jo Bonnier – Masten Gregory —….J P Beltoise

Left to right – T Pilette – G Gosselin ……….Jo Bonnier – Herbert Muller……… Paul Hawkins – David Prophet

All items are 1/43rd scale unless otherwise stated. All prices are subject to change due to exchange rate

After a very hot and humid January here in Melbourne we are back to work

The Phillip Island Classic weekend 8 th /9 th /10 th March was a chance to get the team together, because the three of us don’t live close,  not even in the same state, it is difficult to sit down in the same room and discuss the future of AutomodelliStudio. We managed this on the Saturday night over a beer and we have finalised how we will run the business from September 2019.

David Whitehead has been with me for about 14 of the 16 years producing the resin castings and Porsche kits he will continue with this and take on the import of the readymade models. Paul D’Orival has been a customer since 2008 and business partner for the last couple of years, he will continue with the kits and any building that’s required. I will still be involved and will look after the website/news letter and generally stick my nose in here and there.

So much will remain the same, kits will be available, readymade models will be available to order and there will still be a building service. The only real change will be I will be on beach or taverna somewhere in the Mediterranean if Brexit doesn’t ruin our plans.

So as from Sept 1 st Paul will be owner, David will be his best buddy and I don’t know where I will be but somewhere warm with an internet connection and beer.

At last we have the 1984 IMSA Mustang GTPs ready AUT042B will build either of 14 1984 season versions as raced by Bob Wollek, Klaus Ludwig, Bobby Rahal, Tom Glory, Geoff Brabham. The car wasn’t very successful but looked spectacular and the 06 Brabham car has never been models before. Kit $90 built to order $250.

We now have the Mustang GT from the Wellington 500 1986 Dick Johnson entre just one of the ex Bathurst cars for this race. Co driven by Kiwi Neville Crichton they came 2nd in a wet race to the Brock/Moffat Commodore. Kit AUT048C build this version price $85 or built to order at $250

Replicaz

American manufacture of the Indy Car range have announced a new 1/43 Trans Am range starting with the AMC Javelin. There will be three versions from the 1971/72 series Mark Donohue, George Follmer, Roy Woods. If these are as good as their Indy Cars they will be excellent value at around $130.

Grand Prix Models

We are out of decals for Bathurst version of the Mustang GT but Grand Prix Models in the UK have some built models on sale due to a customer passing away before he collected them See them here. If we get enough interest we will reprint a short run of the decals.

JPS

Le Mans 1978 Mirage M9 painted kit from JPS car #10 was driven by Vern Schuppan. Kit around $100