Across The Sea

We typed the words “Moscow Models” into our favorite search engine to garner some background color for this piece, and we were fairly, um, intrigued by what we found.

As entertaining as they were, none of the results had much to do with the model pictured here, other than the fact that the mastermind behind this outrageously beautiful 1:24 Bugatti Type 57 SC “Atlantic” is Mikhail Bashmashnikov. Mikhail commissioned the car for his B&G Models USA through old friend Igor Bortzov; Igor and Mikhail used to work shoulder to shoulder back in the day, as partners in a firm they called Moscow Models. No, don’t Google it.

Stunning. Yes, that will do nicely. Stunning, in black.

The subject of this adoration is this extremely rare hand-built limited-edition piece from the studio of Carlo Brianza / A.B.C. Brianza in Italy; a 1:16 model of the one-off 1930 Mercedes-Benz SSK built for Count Carlo Felice Trossi.