My Supercar collection.

[slusher]

Beautiful impressive collection!

[mrm]

9 hours ago, slusher said:

Beautiful impressive collection!

Thank you Carl. This is barely scratching the surface of my collection.

[Gramps46]

It has been a pleasure to see these again.  Thank you for sharing them.

[mrm]

Well here is another space ship from the '80/'90s.

This was a design study by Giugiaro. The car was basically a prototype of a rear engined BMW 8 series. Few things are interesting about this car and the model. The original car was supposed to be just a show car showing what is possible. Supposedly a one off owned by Italdesign. Until years later it became apparent that at least three of them were built for the Sultan of Brunei. 

   The model, by Revell of Germany was very detailed for its time, but is missing the the center vertical line in its grille. What is the signature BMW "kidney beans grille" is just an opening on the model. Considering that BMW is not mentioned anywhere on the box or model, one can only assume that it was a licensing related issue. I am not 100% sure, but I think Revell of Germany issued a 1/24 plastic model of the same car.

BMW Nazca M12 by Italdesign - Revell 1/18

 

 

Edited August 6, 2024 by mrm

[caapa]

6 hours ago, mrm said:

Well here is another space ship from the '80/'90s.

This was a design study by Giugiaro. The car was basically a prototype of a rear engined BMW 8 series. Few things are interesting about this car and the model. The original car was supposed to be just a show car showing what is possible. Supposedly a one off owned by Italdesign. Until years later it became apparent that at least three of them were built for the Sultan of Brunei. 

   The model, by Revell of Germany was very detailed for its time, but is missing the the center vertical line in its grille. What is the signature BMW "kidney beans grille" is just an opening on the model. Considering that BMW is not mentioned anywhere on the box or model, one can only assume that it was a licensing related issue. I am not 100% sure, but I think Revell of Germany issued a 1/24 plastic model of the same car.

BMW Nazca M12 by Italdesign - Revell 1/18

 

 

Hi Michael,

yes, it`s right: Revell made a kit in scale 1:24 with the same issue of the BMW "kidney beans grille". I built the 1:24 and corrected the nose and made functional the doors and rear engine cover.

[mrm]

2 hours ago, caapa said:

Hi Michael,

yes, it`s right: Revell made a kit in scale 1:24 with the same issue of the BMW "kidney beans grille". I built the 1:24 and corrected the nose and made functional the doors and rear engine cover.

It looks like you did a great job on that model. You don’t see one available every day, let alone one that is built and detailed like yours. 

[caapa]

On 8/6/2024 at 2:06 PM, mrm said:

It looks like you did a great job on that model. You don’t see one available every day, let alone one that is built and detailed like yours. 

Thank you for the nice comment. The engine and enviroment is realy nice detailed. Unfortunately, the engine cover and spare wheel carrier covers most of these parts.

[slusher]

Super nice and so nicely detailed!