An anonymous benefactor has provided us with a set of the new Shell/Ferrari sets to review. Ill take a look at the four cars today, then the garage, finish line and petrol tanker tomorrow. The sets are currently available in Singapore, Hong Kong and Macau, I believe. There are rumours theyll hit the Netherlands, where Shell has its headquarters, in the next month or so. The seven sets are packaged in polybags, which Ive scanned for the database. The stickers, along with the instructions and a card, are packed in a small polybag to keep them from creasing. The card is the same in all of the sets which is a bit of missed opportunity: it would have been cool if they were more like trading cards showing a picture of the set they came in. All four cars contain the small pull-back motor that was first used in the 2012 Shell/Ferrari sets, which bizarrely, has not been appeared in any others. 40190 Ferrari F138 Here are the interesting parts from 40190 Ferrari F138, which is the 2013 version of their formula 1 car. The nose section is printed on its front edge and the wheels have a thin yellow line printed on the rim which looks great. All four cars are sticker-heavy and to be honest, the cars look a bit plain without them applied so even if youre anti-stickers like me youll probably end up using them. The finished model looks pretty good. A lime green 1x1 plate is provided if you wish to have it driven by Massa rather than Alonso. The yellow wheel rims really make a difference to the appearance. Heres a shot showing it side-by-side with the 2012 version of the F1 car, 30190, Ferrari 150 Italia. It looks much better, doesnt it, particularly the rear spoiler. 40191 Ferrari F12 Berlinetta 40191 is a Ferrari F12 Berlinetta, a current Ferrari model which can be yours for a mere £240,000/$400,000. It makes use of the nose and canopy pieces first introduced in the Cars movie sets. They do look good but every car that uses them pretty much looks the same, and if you didnt know what this was supposed to be you probably wouldnt guess. Heres a photo of the real thing, from Wikipedia. The model is a pretty good approximation; the sticker and printing on the front on the front certainly helps. 40192 Ferrari 250 GTO 40192 is a Ferrari 250 GTO, which was a racing car used in the 1960s. Its distinctive long bonnet is reproduced faithfully here. Its great that its been made in blue for a bit of variety: blue Ferraris seem to be a bit of a rarity. Like the F12, The nose piece is partially printed: the detail at the bottom and the headlights are printed, the yellow stripe on the top is a sticker. I wonder why they didnt print the whole thing? I can only guess that they did not want to produce printed parts with the Ferrari logo on them. Heres a photo of the very car its been modelled on, from ConceptCarz: 40193 Ferrari 512 S The fourth car, 40193, is a Ferrari 512 S, which competed in the 1970 Le Mans 24 hour race. Heres a photo of the vehicle its been modelled on, from a Le Mans website. Now I can see why the 12 sticker at the back has been applied skewy :-) Of the four, I think the LEGO model of this is the least convincing, mainly due to the canopy not looking quite right. However, I appreciate it must be very hard to make anything even remotely looking like it, given all the curves, at this scale. Overall, then, this is another great set of mini-cars that are definitely worth collecting. When are they going to be available in ? Ive no idea, although I did make some predictions based on the speed the last Shell promotion travelled round the world. Ill take a look at the other three sets tomorrow. © 2014 Brickset . Republication prohibited without prior permission.
Posted on: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 10:13:25 +0000
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