An extremely detailed Mercedes-Benz W196, a 1:8 reproduction of Stirling Moss’ racing automotive is now accessible. It’s the monoposto that the British driver drove to victory in 1955 on the British Grand Prix.
The long-lasting racing automotive secured the staff the F1 World Championship the identical season with 75% of the 12 races of that 12 months. Probably the most exceptional triumph was that on the dwelling circuit. It was the second that a minimum of 4 W196 racing vehicles completed first, second, third and fourth locations. Sir Stirling Moss, who by no means received a championship title in his whole profession, was then within the lead.
Greater than 60 years later, inching nearer to perfection, Amalgam Assortment presents the 1:8 mannequin. It’s the automotive in race-worn spec. The worn wheels, particularly designed so, present that it isn’t as one simply rolling off the meeting line.
The knowledgeable craftspeople used interval imagery of the successful automotive to attract, design and construct the mannequin. It comes filled with intentional imperfections, with scratches and deformations, dust and particles, as any racing automotive would. The steering wheel additionally bears indicators of damage after Sir Stirling Moss would have steered the automotive on the race observe.
Amalgam labored in shut cooperation with Mercedes-Benz. It was the one approach for the staff to verify their engineering particulars and materials decisions had been appropriate. Their mannequin recreates the precise weave and cloth sample o the unique single seat of the automotive.
“Our fashions are so finely detailed that they’re exhausting to inform from precise vehicles in images. That’s why we attempt to have a hand or one thing in our images, so folks can see the dimensions”, says Amalgam Director of Model Sandy Copeman mentioned in a launch.
Amalgam will solely construct 5 such replicas of the W196 monoposto, every with a value of $17,165.
