ICM 24040 1:24 1886 Benz Motorwagen is out

[peteski]

Looks like the kit was released recently.  Looks like a nice kit! While this will be of limited appeal to modelers on this forum, Ken started a build thread in the "On the Workbench" section.  That thread is also an excellent kit review.  I hope Ken doesn't  mind  me linking to it here.

 

[Mike999]

If you want some humans with your Motorwagen, ICM is also issuing the kit with figures of Bertha Benz and her 2 sons.  (Kit #24041).  ICM is using this photo to promote the kit, so I guess the final product will look something like this:

[Bainford]

That’s a cool photo. It makes me cringe to see all that loose, flowing clothing around the whirling, turning machinery. 

[Mike999]

10 hours ago, Bainford said:

That’s a cool photo. It makes me cringe to see all that loose, flowing clothing around the whirling, turning machinery. 

Yep. Especially considering what happened to the famous dancer Isadora Duncan:

"On the night of September 14, 1927, in Nice, France, Duncan was a passenger in an Amilcar CGSS automobile owned by Benoît Falchetto, a French-Italian mechanic...Her silk scarf, draped around her neck, became entangled around the open-spoked wheels and rear axle, pulling her from the open car and breaking her neck." (Wikipedia)