Yes, I’ve noted that; it looks like he’s put a lot of work into the design of it all, but that etch fret looks a little intimidating, or at least to fat-fingers like me(!)
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I think I will buy one Trabi and include it in a Operation Danube diorama. Czech cars of the late 1960´s are somehow rare.
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Yes - a sort of shudda-wudda-cudda even if I had kept it in the stash of doom for such a period of time, in all probability it would have reverted to its original chemical components. But do I really need Warsaw Pact softskins in my collection? I mean really need?
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What we really need is food, shelter (includes warm clothes), contact with other humans (this includes love).
The rest is just trimmings and extras.
There is a Swedish made-up word, it combines the two words for need = behöver and want = vill ha. The result is villhöver, some use it for things we want, we know we don’t really need but are convincing ourselves that we do actually need.
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1/35 Roburs and IFAs it is then!
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Hermann,
Have you considered Jawa Velorex for your Operation Danube undertaking?
https://www.scalemates.com/kits/ask-200-k35001-velorex--1577362
It maches the time period(production ran from 1950 till 1973),
Cheers,
Angel
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Hey I didn´t knew that such a vehicle existed, Thank you.
Found a pic of a Trabi in CSSR. Now I need only 4 T-55.
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Javier,
I build only military trucks and AFV that were/are in use with Bulgarian Armed Forces.In other words- the Trabi doesn’t fit into my area of modelbuilding interests at all.
Yet the kit announcement brought back vivid memories and for me your Trabi is not a nice-to-have, but a must-have kit.
Cheers,
Angel
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That isn’t far from the truth. The body is made of Duroplast which is made from recycled plastic scraps amongst other things, however it is end use meaning it in itself can’t be recycled and turned into other plastic items. Old Trabants have been shredded and used as a filler in concrete!!
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Now that is a cracking picture!
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and a lot of space …
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Not exactly. Duroplast was made from a mix of waste cotton and thermosetting resin, the linked videos I posted show nicely the process. But impossible to recycle as such, certainly.
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Thanks for the very kind words, Angel. Hope we can offer more surprises in the future.
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This is a 100% must have for my stash 
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There were attempts after the Wiedervereinigung to develop microbes to eat the body panels.
„Chemiker züchteten für den ‚Plastebomber‘ ganze Bakterienkulturen, die die Kunststoffkarosserie auffressen und anschließend als Humus ausscheiden sollten.“
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Miniature versions of the pigs 
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Maybe the pigs were given the microbes first to enhance the
effectiveness of the pigs digestive tracts. The upgraded pigs
could be seen as bio-reactors.
Seeing that pig devour a Trabant reminds me of the film Snatch …
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“Dou you like dAgs?
DAgs?!
Yeah, dAgs!
Oh,dOgs! Sure I like dAgs!”
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