Builds
Scale models, documented as they are built.
The 97T is the car Ayrton Senna took to his first Formula One win, at Estoril in 1985, in rain heavy enough to put most of the field out. He had taken his first pole the day before, with a new circuit record.
In 2007 Scuderia Ferrari's race cars travelled in a red three-axle trailer behind an Iveco Stralis 480, and the cars it carried that year were the F2007s with which Kimi Räikkönen won the drivers' title by a single point and Ferrari took the constructors' championship. Agora's 1:18 kit builds the truck in pre-painted zamak metal, about 92 cm long and 9 kg, with two F2007s for its lit loading bay, a lift for the cars and sound and light effects, over 12 monthly packs.
The X-wing is the Rebel starfighter of Star Wars, and Luke Skywalker is flying one when he destroys the Death Star at the end of the 1977 film. DeAgostini's partwork builds his — Red Five — at 1:18 in metal and ABS over 100 issues, with lights in the engines, cannons and cockpit and S-foils that open by remote.
The RB19 was Red Bull's car for 2023, the second season of Formula One's ground-effect rules, and it won 21 of the 22 races: a higher winning rate than any car before it, with 19 of the wins and a third title going to Max Verstappen. Only Singapore got away.
The F1-2000 ended a 21-year wait: it gave Michael Schumacher his first drivers' title with Ferrari, sealed in Japan. The car won 10 of its 17 races and took the constructors' championship as well.
Star Wars ends with a bombing run. A rebel squadron flies a trench across the Death Star's surface to put a torpedo into a small exhaust port, while Darth Vader hunts them down it in a starfighter built for him alone.
Initial D ran for eighteen years in Kodansha's Weekly Young Magazine, and its hero was a tofu delivery boy who beat sports cars down a Gunma mountain in his father's ageing Toyota. That car — a Sprinter Trueno AE86, the last rear-wheel-drive Corolla, cheap and obsolete by the time the manga started — has never lived it down.
The TARDIS has been the Doctor's time machine since Doctor Who began in 1963 — bigger on the inside, and stuck looking like a 1960s London police box. ETKVR's Mysterious Blue Box, model CH08, is an unlicensed take on it: a blue box whose hinged doors open onto a console room on two levels, lit by a glowing blue time rotor.
A wizard's library behind an arched wooden frame lettered MAGIC: tall curved bookshelves with a rolling ladder, books flying off a balcony, a snowy owl on the railing, a witch's hat on a stack of books and a small organ in the corner. It is Magic World, model SQ-14, an unlicensed book nook with a Harry Potter feel and lights that come on with a touch.
Kowloon Walled City began as a Chinese fort and ended as a warren of unplanned high-rises holding some 33,000 people on 2.6 hectares, until Hong Kong cleared it and pulled it down in 1993–94. Anavrin's ABN03 imagines one of its alleys in the year 2049: 195 pre-coloured wooden pieces of neon signboards, a hidden dental clinic and dripping pipes, lit by twelve LED lights.
Dominic Toretto's black 1970 Dodge Charger R/T is the car he built with his father and was afraid to drive, until the finale of The Fast and the Furious (2001) sends it down the street against Brian's Supra; it has been his car in most of the films since. DeAGOSTINI's 1:8 partwork builds it in die-cast metal over 110 issues, with lit headlights, engine and horn sounds and a supercharger standing proud of the bonnet.
KITT is the car from Knight Rider, the NBC series that ran from 1982 to 1986: a black Pontiac Firebird Trans Am with a computer for a brain, a red scanner sweeping across its nose and William Daniels's voice. DeAGOSTINI's 1:8 partwork builds it in die-cast metal over 110 issues, with a wristwatch remote that lights the scanner and dashboard and makes KITT talk.
The AE86 was the Corolla Toyota didn't modernise: a light rear-wheel-drive car on old underpinnings with a new twin-cam engine, which went on to win touring-car titles in Europe and Britain and became the car Japan learned to drift in. The Sprinter Trueno is the version with pop-up headlamps.
Doc Brown's time machine is a stainless-steel DeLorean with a reactor in the back: get it to 88 mph with 1.21 gigawatts behind it and it jumps through time, which is how Marty McFly ends up in 1955 at his parents' high school. DeAGOSTINI's 1:8 partwork builds it in die-cast metal over 130 issues, with lit time circuits, opening gull-wing doors and a speedometer that reads 88.
Brian O'Conner's silver-and-blue Nissan Skyline GT-R is the car he races in the opening of 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003), the second film in the series, and the R34 behind it was a car Nissan built only in Japan. DeAGOSTINI's 1:8 partwork builds the film car in 110 issues, with opening doors, bonnet and boot, working lights and a remote control for the engine sound and horn.
Keisuke Takahashi is the younger of Initial D's two rotary brothers, a former bōsōzoku in a yellow Mazda Efini RX-7 Type R, and the first rival to lose to Takumi's Hachiroku — twice, on Mount Akina. His FD3S is the RX-7 as Mazda reinvented it in 1991, with sequential twin turbos and a body from its Irvine studio.
