ISDERA imperator 108i Series 1

[capricorn71]

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:

 

Edited December 26, 2022 by capricorn71
Photos added

[capricorn71]

Chronicle Part 2:

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

[Joe Handley]

Even if it’s only going to be a curbside like the AMT Slammerz series, that would look great if you were to finish it!

[capricorn71]

Thank you Joe. 
I think a sculpture like this would be cool: Lamborghini sculpture

But for now I have something different in the works….

[tooltime-fan]

Hello Erich, 

Happy New Year.

Are you still following this project?

Maybe if this wooden model is finished, you can use it to vacuform 

[capricorn71]

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. 

[capricorn71]

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:

[capricorn71]

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:

Edited January 1, 2023 by capricorn71

[capricorn71]

Chronicle part 5:

Many hours later the CAD Model has been finished:

[capricorn71]

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: