Some of you may be following my "puny ants" thread about my trip to Berlin and the resulting freebie buildings, mainly concentrating on the former East-Berlin and the DDR (German Democratic Republic. Now one important piece is missing to decorate these scenes : the (almost) only car available to the East-Germans, the Trabant. I guess about half of the cars there were Trabants, the other half being Wartburgs, Lada's and other East-European brands. Here is its history :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trabant

The 601 is the best known version and I've been searching for a decent model of this car :

Poser : nothing.

Google Sketchup : decent models of both limousine and Universal version, unfortunately mangled by the conversions to and from Sketchup. I wonder who made the originals, they are not Sketchup models.

Finally as a last legal resource I went to Turbosquid :

http://www.turbosquid.com/Search/Index.cfm?keyword=TRABANT&x=0&y=0

All models have issues, only 1 acceptable model ... the most expensive one at 175$ ...

That's way over my budget.

Hence my request for a (paid) limousine version.

The "Universal" estate and "Tramp" jeep-like versions would also be welcome.

 

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