I just recieved my Raikonnen Ferrari F2007 in 1/43rd scale by Mattel from Hong Kong.
If I didn't collect World Champion models, I'd never bought it. It's so poor !
We all knew that it is delivered without correct Martini and Marlboro or hashmarks stickers and it's indeed in the old red colour, not the new metalic darker tone.
That's not what I am talking about. It really much worse:
The plastic parts (e.g. rear wing, little wings, etc. are just unpainted plain plastic. So they are matt and really look like plastic. The wheels in opposite to that are glossy as if they were oiled. The mirrors are just red, without any silver paint for the reflective surface. Of course the model has the rediculous big antennas on the nose which we already saw on the preview picures. And god only knows what happened to Kimi's helmet design.
But not only the model is bad, also the production quality lacks very much. There are always huge gaps between the plastic parts and the metal body. The front cameras are not parrell, also the wings in front of the sidepods hang in different angles. The top camera isn't inline with the car, it films slightly to the right. Finally there is a little paint missing between the cockpit and the air intake.
I have already recieved a set of hashmark decals from Tomo, but I really think these won't help much here. I'll see what else I can do to modify the model in a way that I don't have to be ashamed presenting it on the shelf with the other cars.