Spy Who Loved Me Esprit S1 Scalextric Car

[LOTUSMAN33]

[Jack Stone]

This looks all wrong. But it's alright!

[tomcattom]

My pre-ordered FYEO Esprit arrived last week while I was away on work and I'm quite pleased with what Scalextric have created, the colour reproduction is much better in the flesh than my photos show - new phone and still getting used to it.

 

There's some nice attention to detail in the skis too.

 

On 10/01/2022 at 13:54, stephenwhyte said:

Looks decent but I’m sure they could’ve done a better job with the front bumper design! The rear lip spoiler looks a bit lacking in the pic shown too. Pity when you look at the detail of the wheels, and the body generally…..but overall nice to see😎

Sadly the front bumper lights appear a bit too oval shaped still @stephenwhyte, but I the rear lip spoiler looks much better on the final product than in the early rendering that they're still using on the Scalextric website.

[Rambo]

I'm waiting for someone to say that the ski's have the wrong bindings on them or that the ski's are 185's instead of 195's 😉

[C8RKH]

Needs GoodYear logo's on the tyres 😜

[tomcattom]

Wet Nellie finally surfaced yesterday 😁

 

I think its ontrack handling may be somewhat "compromised" by the very narrow rear wheel track and lack of front wheels to accommodate the submarine design 😆

[Jacques]

I'll just keep min on the shelf.

I really hope they will do a model of the Stevens Esprit, the SE, the Sport300 and others.

 

Kind regards,

Jacques

[tomcattom]

The Gerry Marshall "S1" race car turned up in the post in the past couple of weeks.

 

I'm a little bit disappointed with the alignment of the text on the rear panel though. I thought it was my model, but looking about on the web they all appear to be the same. Spoils an otherwise nice model.

[C8RKH]

That text alignment is proper shit! No thanks 

[Chillidoggy]

I've been privileged to watch Gerry Marshall race on numerous occasions, mostly at Brands and Lydden, but don't recall seeing him in an Esprit with that livery. 

[tomcattom]

Supplier has kindly searched through their stock and swapped my model for one with much better print alignment - kudos to Jadlam for doing that for me. Seems the vast majority of their stock hasn't been printed very well, so evidently some quality control issues with this model at Scalextric.

[Rambo]

It still looks wonky to me, particularly the T 😗

[tomcattom]

I didn't say it was perfect The camera angle doesn't seem to help in that shot, any misalignment there is, is barely noticable in reality. I'm much happier with that one and it will get used at the end of the day; I don't buy them to be shelf queens 😆