Hertzan Chimera's Blog

BACK IN 1970: Bertone showcased their amazing Lancia Stratos HF0 to a stunned audience at the Turin Motor Show.
Now in 2026, I'm having a go at remaking this in Blender but with certain functional/stylistic updates; electric 3-seater with sensible doors and rooftop solar panels, triangular hatchback boot access in homage to Bertone's old engine cover.
Reinstated the longer windscreen... what was I thinking?


2026 dimensions: length 4.6m, width 1.9m, height 1.1m and wheelbase 2.8m.

PROJECT PERPETUA is a modern-scaled concept car based on the visual style of Bertone's tiny 1969 Lancia Stratos HF0.

An electric three-seater with a mid-engine positioned detachable battery pack for that sporty weight distribution, sensible doors & hatchback luggage access.

Dimensions: width 2.0m, length 4.6m, height 1.2m and wheelbase 2.7m

PROJECT PERPETUA is a modern-scaled concept car based on the visual style of Bertone's tiny 1969 Lancia Stratos HF0.

An electric three-seater with a mid-engine positioned detachable battery pack for that sporty weight distribution, sensible doors & hatchback luggage access.

Dimensions: width 2.0m, length 4.6m, height 1.2m and wheelbase 2.8m

2025 CONCEPT CAR: inspired by Bertone's tiny 1969 Lancia Stratos HF0. This iteration is an electric three-seater with a novel entry methodology, hatchback luggage access and a mid-engine positioned detachable battery pack.Dimensions: width 1.9m, length 4.6m, height 1.2m and wheelbase 2.8m#cars #cardesign #carprototype #design #prototype #designprocess

 CODENAME PERPETUA: my own raked back re-imagining of Bertone's legendary but tiny 1969 Lancia Stratos HF-0 as a modern three-seater with more sensible doors, rear-view cameras, hatchback-style storage space and a mid-engine-positioned battery pack for that sporty weight distribution.

Dimensions: width 1.9m, length 4.6m, height 1.2m and wheelbase 2.9m

Four years ago, I designed the first Electro Bullet, based on Bertone's 1969 Lancia Stratos HF-0... recently, I've been rethinking Bertone's original two seat design and strange windscreen door and this is my latest version reimagined at a more modern scale/proportion.

Three-seat layout, regular doors, a mid-engine positioned detachable battery-pack and hatchback boot space are among the design features.Dimensions: length 4.8m, width 1.9m, height 1.2m, wheelbase 2.8m

SERIAL KILLER is the name of my forthcoming novel.I currently have about 40,000 words typed into the computer with more hand-written pages still to go. It's a story about a lovely man who runs the local Launderette and it's set in the last day of 1979 and crosses over to the first day of 1980, here's the cover.

It's not a follow-up to my 2020 novel Flint, but it's from the same fixed-location lineage.

STEEL is the name of my forthcoming serial-killer novel.I currently have about 40,000 words typed into the computer with more hand-written pages still to go. It's a story about a lovely man who runs the local Launderette and it's set in the last day of 1979 and crosses over to the first day of 1980, here's the cover.

It's not a follow-up to my 2020 novel Flint, but it's from the same fixed-location lineage.

So, I might be writing a new SERIAL KILLER novel... we're getting closer to the way it might sound i.e. when the conflicting parts are allowed to resolve.

Perfect cadence, also known as an authentic cadence, typically moves from the dominant chord (V) to the tonic chord (I). Deceptive cadence creates an unexpected musical turn, "deceiving" the listener who is expecting a more traditional resolution to the tonic. 

Let's put it this way, I'm 8,000 words into this two-part mind-ride in just three days. I can't wait to see how this gory dual-tonality plays out... and I hope it disturbs the shit out of you, too.

 

This stuff is fascinating... in the Madeline Soto case, a 13 y.o. girl goes missing.

The mom's testimony is all over the place, shows little in the way of emotion.

The 'dad' (or the mom's boyfriend, she isn't dating any more) lives at the house, on and off.

Then they find ABSOLUTELY TONNES OF c.s.a.m. footage/pictures on his phone of him and little Maddy going back years... and he still might not have been the one to have killed her, by strangulation.

Goes to trial this year, properly fascinating.