{"id":18865,"date":"2026-01-21T10:44:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T13:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/?p=18865"},"modified":"2026-01-29T16:24:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T19:24:00","slug":"when-you-almost-loose-faith-in-a-brand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/21\/when-you-almost-loose-faith-in-a-brand\/","title":{"rendered":"When you almost loose faith in a brand…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I think it’s patent that I’m a HUGE fan of Tecnomodel. Just as good as Looksmart and BBR, but at a much affordable price. In terms of Ferrari models, in my book it’s THE 1:43 brand. However, my faith in the brand got shaken up after I received my F40 GTE<\/a>. My model came with some (minute) issues with a couple of decals. Nothing big, but something I didn’t expect from Tecnomodel. Well, fast-forward to the 330 LMB. I ordered it as soon as my dealer offered it to me, and was anxiously awaiting it’s arrival. And as always, while I waited I started the research on the real car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Looking up photos of the real car, I noticed there was a small discrepancy with the model shown at Tecnomodel’s website. On all race pictures that I found, the car had a small bug deflector on the bonnet, while the model on the Tecnomodel website<\/a> did not \ud83d\ude33. “Oh crap, they screwed up!”<\/em>, I immediately thought. I then scoured the web to see if it was right or wrong, and found one pic<\/a> of the car without the bug deflector screen. I think<\/em> that photo was taken during scrutineering, so perhaps the part wasn’t installed yet. If true, the model wasn\u2019t wrong, yet I would prefer the \u201crace version\u201d \ud83d\ude15…<\/p>\n\n\n

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But to my surprise, when I opened the box, there was the bug deflector on the bonnet, as it should be! Probably the photo on the website was from a pre-production model, and Tecnomodel rectified the missing detail before actual production. And with that, my faith in Tecnomodel was restored… \ud83d\ude01<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I think it’s patent that I’m a HUGE fan of Tecnomodel. Just as good as Looksmart and BBR, but at a much affordable price. In terms of Ferrari models, in my book it’s THE 1:43 brand. However, my faith in the brand got shaken up after I received my F40 GTE. My model came with … Continue reading “When you almost loose faith in a brand…”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-collectors-corner","category-model-review","post_format-post-format-image"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18865"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19092,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18865\/revisions\/19092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}