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Chronicle Part 6: in late 2020 a dream took a great step to become true. The parts have been printed at a professionell printing service:

Chronicle part 5: Many hours later the CAD Model has been finished:

Chronicle part 4: After a more than 20 year break I started to work on this project again. Meanwhile I hade the chance to use 3D CAD. This is the early stage of the CAD model:

Chronicle Part 3: As the imperator has a Mercedes V8 engine and Recaro CS seats, I bought a Tamiya kit of the MB 500 SEC Lorinser. Inspired by the GunzeSangyo Fiat 500D kit that my dad gave me for christmas I decided to do the engine and the seats with white metal. So I used the Tamiya parts to make casting forms out of plaster. The parts look like this:

Thank you, Happy New Year too. Yes I am still - after more than 30 years - following this project. The original plan has been to use the wooden model to form sheetmetall around it. But meanwhile I changed to something different. Will post it soon.

Thank you Joe. I think a sculpture like this would be cool: Lamborghini sculpture But for now I have something different in the works….

Chronicle Part 2: After the cardboard model I startet to built a wooden model. But I never finished it…

Hello, a few years ago I found a topic about a scratch built ISDERA imperator here on this forum ( imperator by Dann Tier ) To clean things up, I now start this topic to post about my build. My wish to have a modelcar scale 1/24 of the imperator started in 1984 when this car was unveiled. We can even go back to 1978 when the CW311 was shown at the international car fair (IAA = Internationale Automobil-Ausstellung) Frankfurt / Germany. I was a seven year old boy then. I waited patiently many years for a model car kit to be made, I wrote a letter to Tamiya, but then in around 1990 I decided to build the model myself. First I made a technical drawing w/ side / front / top view. Maybe I will find it again to post pictures here. Then I made a cardboard model based on this drawing as a mock-up and to check the proportions. To have a early success, I painted and detailed this model to make it look like a CW311:

Hello, I found this thread by chance and I can imagine how many hours and work went into this kit.. I built this model a few years ago. The only modification/ addition I made is the soft top cover. Your built is amazing! Greetings from Germany Erich

Hello, a Series 2 Imperator is for sale: Bonhams auction A lot of photos, worth a look. BR Erich

...Wait!! -is this what you carved out of that wood??!! Hello Dann, that is the cardboard model I made with the same sections I used for the wood model I made afterwards. It was meant to check the proportions. There are a view errors I would have corrected in the wood model. BR Erich

Hello Dann, the wood really could be used to do a sculpture. Good idea. Yes the seat is covered in real leather. Bought it in a dedicated modelcar shop in Munich 20 years ago. BR Erich

Hello Dann, what a fantastic work. You are totally crazy- Must be your age ( I am year 71 btw) Best regards from Germany Erich

Hello everybody, after one year in a moving box my CW311 is finally released and back in the display cabinet. So I could do some better photos.

Yesterday I foundt the box with the parts I did for this project more than 20 years ago. Take a look: