We've become accustomed to Thomas Leuchtmann's sometimes (all the time perhaps?) offbeat Cadillac conversions. When we received this photo from Kurt Hofmeyer of Thomas' models displayed at the 2013 Fulda Meet we just had to inquire directly to Thomas, what is "Bresina?" His response, mostly unedited, in full:

""Bresina" is a fictional soft drink brand, which has its beginnings in the mo87.de forum. The whole story started with an discussion about the buffet trailers by Brekina in July 2012. Some of our members said that the "Cola" version was not quite good and so they considered that Brekina could make their own soft drink brand. The first suggestion for a name was "Bresina" which could be a short form for Brekina sin alcohol (simply lemonade without alcohol).

Michael Scheel then created the logo with slogans and determined the colour scheme. Basic colour light grey, logo and name in blue, with an additional red "tail". In the following weeks the idea grow bigger and bigger and Michael Scheel showed some photo retouchings of how models could look like (for example a VW T1 with the logo). The main time line should be the 1960s to the 1970s. The highlight was seen on our 10th anniversary last year. Marc Schmidt and Michael Scheel were able to convince Brekina to make an special model for the mo87 Fulda meet. It was a Mercedes Benz L319 from Starmada with that Bresina logo, limited up to 156 models. (I think, Marc Schmidt has a few models left ;-) this is the limited model: http://www.mo87.de/index.php?st=1&kat=6235 )

After that it become a bit calmer with that brand and a few month before the Fulda meet 2013 Markus Bräuninger pushed up the Bresina thread and then it grew up again. I had a Cadillac on the table and I was was not sure what to make of, until I saw the pics from Markus. I decided that Brekina could also have a company based in the USA. So I took the logos from Michael, changed the slogan and made a bunch of various Cadillacs, using the new "Bresina America Ltd" version, which you can see on the photo. The bottles are dolls accessories in scale 1:12.

In consequence, Michael Scheel produced more variations of the logos and slogans...I think, we will see some more Bresina models in our forum in the future."

Our compliments to the very creative group that came up with and developed the concept and to Thomas for executing these unique models!

Posted November 3, 2013