Spark Model Announcements

This week, we’ve received a list of 10 1/43 race cars that competed at Le Mans, Daytona and Spa along with 13 additions to Spark’s 1/43 scale National Series and a sole 1/18 LMP2 from the 2026 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Highlights of the first list include the #60 Jaguar XJR-9 driven to victory in the 1988 24 Hours of Daytona by Martin Brundle, Raul Boesel and John Nielsen (above), the #22 Porsche 911 Carrera RSR Turbo of Gijs van Lennep and Herbert Mueller that finished second in the 1974 24 Hours of Le Mans, the 1972 Spa winning #2 Ford Capri RS 2600 of HJ Stuck and Jochen Mass and the #53 Viper GTS-R driven to a GT2 Class win and 11th overall by David Donohue, Justin Bell and Luca Drudi in the 1998 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Advance order deadline is November 6.

The 1/43 Spark National Series list features a trio of Maserati 300S entries from the mid 1950s including the Juan Manuel Fangio 1957 Cuba Grand Prix winner (above) and the Spear / Johnson #35 that finished third at Sebring in 1955 as the latest additions to the US National Series along with the 1956 winner of the 1000km of Paris, driven by Behra and Rosier as a strong addition to the French National Series.

11 Alfa Romeo, BMW, Peugeot, Porsche and Renault racers round out the French, Belgian and German Series announced in this month’s list.

All will be produced in Limited Editions of 300.

Advance Order Deadline is November 10.

Spark also announced a 1/18 scale model of the #24 Oreca 07 – Gibson of Peterson, Heinemeier Hansson as raced in the 2026 24 Hours of Le Mans. Advance Order Deadliine is November 10.

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1998 Daytona winning Ferrari 333 SP from Tecnomodel

Tecnomodel just announced a series of 6 different Ferrari 333 SP sports cars in 1/18 scale including the Doran / Moretti #30 Momo Ferrari 333 SP that won the 1998 24 Hours of Daytona.

A Press Version and several Le Mans and Nurburgring cars fill out the set.

Details HERE.

Also unveiled are 4 Driver Figure versions of the Ferrari 399 Formula One car from 1999 including Michael Schumacher’s Monaco Grand Prix winner and Eddie Irvine‘s winning car from the Australian GP.

A pair of ‘rain tire’ versions from the French Grand Prix round things out.

Details HERE.

Friday, October 30 is the Advance Order Deadline for both.

Other recent Tecnomodel Announcements include the Tyrrell Yamaha F1 car from 1995. Four 1/18 scale versions each with or without Driver Figure.

Advance Order Deadline for the Driverless is this Friday, October 9.

You have until Wednesday, October 14 to choose from the four Driver options including the Mika Salo Canadian GP version seen above.

The Prost Mugen JS45 from 1997 is also offered with or without driver figure. Four versions of each available for pre-order there as well.

All with an October 14 Deadline.

October TopSpeed / TSM

Highlight of this month’s offering from TSM Model / TopSpeed is the 2026 IMSA 24 Hours of Daytona winning #7 Porsche Penske Motorsport 963 in three scales: 1/12 – 1/18 – 1/43.

Rounding out the 1/18 lineup from TopSpeed (from left) is the Lamborghini Temerario in Viola Pasifae, the 2026 Daytona versions of the #65 Ford Mustang GT3 and #60 Acura ARX-06 and the Lamborghini Revuetto in Verde Citrea Matt. Details HERE.

The 1/43 TSM list consists of 4 additional IMSA racers, including the #93 Acura ARX-06 and #65 Ford Mustang GT3 in 2026 Daytona trim, the 2026 Laguna Seca GTD winning DEX Wayne Taylor #45 Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2 and the #64 Ford Mustang GT3 in their special 2025 VIR livery. Details HERE.

Deadline for everything here is Monday, October 19.

LookSmart & Spark Model Announcements

Spark Model has announced their lineup for the 2026 12 Hours of Bathurst in 1/18, 1/43 and 1/64 scale, including the winning Mercedes-AMG GT3 EVO #888 (in 1/18 & 1/43) above.

Also announced is an additional selection of BMW M4 GT3 EVO models driven by Valentino Rossi. We’ve listed everything according to scale HERE.

Advance order deadline is October 13.

LookSmart announced a Launch Version of the Ferrari 296 GT Modificata in all three scales along with the 2026 Italian GP liveried Ferrari SF-26 of Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc (also in 3 scales) and the 1/5 scale Helmets of both drivers.

Deadline on the LookSmart range is also October 13.

All are listed HERE according to scale.

1/43 Spark ‘Road Cars’

Spark just announce 15 scale exotic, sports and other interesting ‘Road Cars’ that they intend to produce in 1/43 scale, including the Gordon Murray T.50s seen above and the Aston Martin Valkyrie Spyder below.

Orders close on October 2. 10% off list for ‘early’ orders. Details HERE.

1/43 & 1/18 Tecnomodel Announcements

We’ve uploaded 3 separate sections to our New Model Announcements page that cover Tecnomodel’s latest plans:

Tecnomodel will produce six different Limited Edition versions of the Ford GT 40 Roadster X1 in both 1/18 and 1/43 scale, including the #71 driven by Chris Amon in the 1965 LA Times Grand Prix at Riverside seen above. Details HERE.

They will also produce eight different versions (4 with driver / 4 without) of the 1999 BAR Supertec in its original Test livery as well as the famous ‘Zipper Car’ driven by Jacques Villeneuve, Ricardo Zonta and Mika Salo.

The Zonta versions feature rain tires used during the French GP Details HERE.

Friday, October 2 is the Advance Order Deadline for the BAR and Ford GT sets.

Tecnomodel will also produce the Ligier JS39 driven by Martin Brundle and Mark Blundell in 1993 with or without driver figure in 1./18 scale. Again, 8 different versions (4 with driver, 4 without) are offered. Details HERE.

Advance Order Deadline on the Ligier JS39 series is Monday, September 28.