1/43 Model Review: 2019 Ferrari SF90 (Bburago)

Ferrari's second half of the year began brightly as Leclerc took two emotional victories in a row, at tracks that suited their high power and low drag concept. Vettel also won the Singapore GP after more strategy criticism. Leclerc repaid Ferrari's faith in him and was firmly established as a future star, if he isn't that already, and he's been rewarded with a big fat new lengthy contract. After Vettel's appalling mistake in Italy, he has shown signs that he's not done with the sport yet and could figure in the 2020 title fight.

In recent years Bburago have released some budget F1 cars, and whilst the first couple of attempts were quite bad, they are starting to produce some reasonably passable models in the last couple of years, though they do cost a little more now.

Bburago BU36815V

One of the problems before was simply bad proportions, but the Ferrari cars seem to have more effort put towards them than other teams. For me, there's no complaints about proportions here. The question about Bburago models is whether they are toys or whether they are models. I'd say most of their cars were clearly toys first, that's why there was a lot less detail and the parts were very bulky.

Bburago BU36815L

Now it seems that they are being presented more as budget models with a suggested age of 14+ for owners. For a budget model, it's really not bad.

Bburago BU36814L

Bburago BU36814V

They also released a version with the driver inside, these being based on the Australian GP. Personally I can't see any difference in the models other than the driver figure.

Score: 6/10