Post by Jean B. on Mar 27, 2023 11:31:20 GMT -5
As usual, your final pictures are very enjoyable to go over. It's impressive to see how every new model is a challenge to take things to the next level.
It's easy to see why you are so attracted to cars of this era. The early days of 'stagecoach minus horses' were over, the boundaries of technology had advanced enough so that the cars had some real performance and the makers could concentrate on making the best, fastest, most luxurious and most appealing cars. The flowing lines of this era are very satisfying and I guess research makes up part of the fun too- more of a challenge in the days before everything was photographed in colour.
You're so right! Especially in Germany there's - naturally - a huge ambivalence concerning this era, and of course I won't forget or deny anything. But nothing of the terrible things can belittle my fascination and admiration for the elegance, lifestyle and culture of this time, and if not in Germany, as you may say, but in France, England and in the U.S.A. Model-building and my diorama give me the opportunity to imagine a better world, that might sound a little bit stupid, I call it escapism. The world as it is now is troubling enough, and I guess anybody needs some time-out, sometimes...
The purple one looks absolutely fantastic, by far my favourite of these two, and undoubtedly better than both my Minichamps versions!
Didn't Hermann Göring have one of those Horchs?
Thank you so much! Yes, I know the Minichamps version, I cannot say that my one is really "better", but perhaps a little bit "refined". - Concerning the Göring Horch's: Göring was photographed with lots of cars, and in any case it's said "he bought this car". Of course, from the "terrible Three" (Hitler, Goebbels, Göring) he was the one with the most excentric lifestyle, far over the top. Hitler led a rather decent life, Goebbels and his wife were responsible for the elegant, but "average" German family, and Göring and his second wife Emmy were the Kardashians of Nazi-Germany. In fact there are hardly any facts which particular cars Göring owned. Heres a photo of a 855 Spezial Roadster with (no, not with Göring in it, it's a Horch works driver!) a top frame around the windshield:
bodywork by Gläser, Dresden
No other 855 had it, and Göring's cars were all painted in Airforce-blue with dark-blue wheels and had bullet-proof windshields, requiring a top frame! So it might be that one of the 855's indeed was owned by him, but it's not sure.
Excellent!
Thank you!
It's hard to believe there was a period of such elegance and style on our planet. Jean, you have opened a picture of pure character. A very enjoyable thread to read and to witness your creations of beauty. Thank you.
Thank you very much for your kind words! Past times, what a pity... I cannot say if I really wanted to live back then, however, the world must had been beautiful, and I admit: I watch old movies, listen to old tunes and with my model-building I'm creating my own "parallel universe"...
I've run out of superlatives! Surely it can't get better than this can it?
Hahaha!!! Can it? Well, let's see what the future brings... However, thanks for your comment and thanks for following this topic, please visit my next one as well!
A fitting setting for 2 high class motors and models.
Thanks for viewing! Yes, I love my diorama, and I already have lots of ideas for improving it and for building another one... Unfortunately it's almost impossible to make really fine panorama photos of it, it's simply too wide for a normal camera (although my "normal" camery already is quite a fine device!). I guess I'll have to talk to some experts if there's a better technical solution...