Its the weekend! And time for another year of schumi models. This is the last in the series unless somehow magically I complete the 2004 series.
Anyway 2006 is a short time ago but seems long because of this season. Renault won the previous year and were hungry, Ferrari had their 248 car with schumi in Red 5, which started off not that well but won the race in imola but the gap was quite big compared to alonso. Monaco was famous for his parking incident in qualifying. The comeaback came from the USGP and schumi fought until they were even in china. He announced his retirement and many special edition models came out,even 2 each for 2 different races (monza and hockenheim) The title seemed to be lost when his engine blew up under the bridge at suzuka. And Brazil though was his last ever race which he did not finish on the podium, he did it in style.
Starting on the 1/18 models, there is a whole lot of them to cover, some 80 over images to see. Starting off, it is not the pole position model which came out first but the special edition sold at the nurburgring where Schumi started 2nd and finished 1st! It is a premiere edition model so note the different wing/body work configurations as the year passes on. It is a year where hot wheels pull off all the stops to make every car different.
Note the stickers for the cooling vents on the body work