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F-1's With engines ???

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  • Member since
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  • From: west springfield,mass
F-1's With engines ???
Posted by rudedog on Wednesday, August 17, 2005 11:07 AM
Other than Tamiya & Revell [already done most of those ],are there any good mfgr's of F-1's that have engines ? Studio 27 has great metal/resin cars but no engines.Any idea's ? Thanks ahead guys [ or gals ]

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  • Member since
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  • From: NSW, Australia
Posted by pingtang on Thursday, August 18, 2005 12:50 AM
go to www.f1m.com . They have a complete listing of F1 kits available. I don't know if it'll tell you whether they have engines or not, but you can search for more info on the kits with google or something. They also have reviews of alot of kits on there.

hope this helps.
-Daniel
  • Member since
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  • From: west springfield,mass
Posted by rudedog on Thursday, August 18, 2005 8:24 AM
Thanks Pingtang.And I thought your specialty was Bikes !!!

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  • From: NSW, Australia
Posted by pingtang on Thursday, August 18, 2005 9:35 PM
My specialty is actually F1 cars mate Smile [:)]. I know alot more about Formula 1 than I do about Moto GP. I've only gotten into bikes pretty recently, but have been building F1's for years.
-Daniel
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  • From: Paarl, South Africa
Posted by SeaBee on Friday, August 19, 2005 1:22 AM
The "new kids on the block" is a company called Red 5. Their first offering was a F2004, then brought out the R5. They now brought out rain tyres for Bridgestone and Michelin, which looks an interesting option.

And to answer your question, their next offering, to be released this month, is a Spanish version MP4/20 with engine. No idea what it's going to cost, though. The F2004 and R5 was about US$150 on most places I've seen, but they were both resin with no engine. Apart from engine detail, this is also a metal kit - like it or not. On their site there is actually allready an online manual available. From that you'll see that the engine is not as interesting as it used to be, but that's the way it is/looks with the modern F1 cars anyways. Btw, after that they are apparently planning on doing a R25 with engine as well.

I will give them a try for sure at some stage, looks very promising. Loads of detail, very nice PE, CF templated decals, wooden plank and a cd with reference pics.
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  • From: west springfield,mass
Posted by rudedog on Friday, August 19, 2005 6:56 AM
Thanks to you also Seabee.I'll do a search,but do you know of a distributor of the top of your head ? Semper fi

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  • From: Paarl, South Africa
Posted by SeaBee on Friday, August 19, 2005 8:32 AM
The homepage for RedFive themselves are:
http://www.redfive.com.br/


Two of the guys that I know distributes the kits are Mediamix and Strada Sports, see below:
http://www.mediamixhobby.com.sg/
http://www.stradasports.com

Just take note, the Macca's not available yet... Hopefully not too long. But if you want to have a peek at what's going on, the best place will be their homepage.

There is also a Brazilian distr called Slick model: http://www.slickmodel.com.br It seems there's a good relationship between them and Red5 - both being from Brazil.

Good luck and keep us up-to-date!
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