I am a hard-core aircraft modeler, putting plastic to plastic since I was around six, that being 42 years ago. I veered from planes to cars exclusively when I got to the age one starts fantasizing about cars and stayed a car modeler for about five years back when AMT ruled the roost and the Detroit Model Year coincided with the AMT model year. Everything on the market was represented in 1/25 by AMT. I did those stockers and then dragsters and really got into concept cars and Ed Roth/George Barris type creations (C['mon, I was only kid!).
To the point, I want to branch back out but don't know the first thing about modern car modeling, or what's available in aftermarket (in my day, it was those little scontainers of fake mohair for simulating carpet -- very poorly).
I am especially interested in F1, and in particular, early F1. When I saw the Tamiya Lotus 25 I thought I'd died and gone to heaven. Then the Honda. Now, where's a BRM and a few others to round out a perfect set under glass? Besides those two, I found a bunch of Tamiya motorcycles, which were novel and cheap, coming from an out-of-business shop for pennies on the dollar, as was an excellent Alfa Romeo 155 V6 TI. Now my questions, kind car modelers, are these:
Can I get aftermarket seat harnesses for my classic mid-60s Lotus and Honda?
Does anyone make the 1968 STP Indy turbo car in any scale?
Where is a good site to look at what the modern car modeler does in the aftermarket arena?
Sources? I found photos of my Lotus in various old books (I was working in a used bookstore when I built it), but they were all shots of the car rounding corners at full tilt. No engine or suspension views or color shots. No pix of Hondas at all.
Is a Tamiya BRM imminent as the rumors say?
Thanks in advance, gentlemen. Though I hang around the a/c site mostly, I'll be reading here because I want a new education in four-wheel modeling.