Two Scales, One Passion: Porsche

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Same silhouette. Same stance. Same character. Different scale.

15

YEARS OLD

Porsche Through My Lens.

A personal photography project blending scale models and real Porsche moments.

MiniFlatSix is my personal Porsche photography project, built from a passion for both scale models and real cars.

At 15, I bring a different perspective—one that focuses on detail, atmosphere and storytelling rather than just the subject itself.

I create photo series using 1:64 and 1:43 Porsche models, often taking them to real locations such as events, dealerships, museums and unique automotive environments. By placing small-scale models into real-world settings, I aim to blur the line between miniature and reality.

MiniFlatSix is more than a portfolio. It’s an evolving visual project with its own style, story and point of view, shared through the Gallery, the Journal and ongoing work on Instagram.

Koen

FROM THE JOURNAL

Pit Stops and Green Machines: The Nürburgring and Manthey Racing

The road home from Stuttgart had one more surprise in store.

Passing the Nürburgring, we arrived in the middle of a 12 hour race. For a Porsche photographer that means one thing: head for the pit lane. I was able to witness a pit stop up close, with a Porsche 992 GT3 Cup and a GT3 R in action. The choreography of a racing pit stop is something photos barely do justice. Tires, fuel, hand signals, seconds. And then the flat six screams back out onto the most legendary track in the worl d.

Just around the corner from the circuit sits Manthey Racing, the team behind Porsche’s greatest Nürburgring victories and the wizards responsible for the Manthey kit that turns GT3s into ring weapons. I grabbed a quick photo at their home base. It felt like a first handshake rather than a full visit. This is a place that deserves time, and I hope to come back for the photos it truly deserves.

The Nürburgring has a way of pulling you in. Consider this a promise to return.

The full galleries from this trip will arrive on the site in the coming weeks. Follow @miniflatsix on Instagram to be the first to see them.

A Quick Stop at Mechatronik: Porsche 934 in Pleidelsheim

On the way home from Stuttgart, one address was impossible to skip.

Mechatronik in Pleidelsheim is known among enthusiasts as one of the finest classi

c car specialists in Germany, a place where restoration reaches the level of art and the price tags follow accordingly. I knew a Porsche 934 lived there, and that was reason enough for a detour.

The visit was short, but the 934 delivered. Wide arches, deep splitter, the unapologetic stance of a Group 4 homologation racer. Even standing still in a showroom, a 934 radiates the intent it was built with. A few frames, a quiet moment with one of the rarest racing 911s ever made, and back on the road.

Short stops can leave long impressions.

The full galleries from this trip will arrive on the site in the coming weeks. Follow @miniflatsix on Instagram to be the first to see them.

Inside the Porsche Museum and Factory: A Day Among Legends in Stuttgart

Some days deliver more than you dare to hope for.

A trip to Stuttgart brought me to the heart of the brand, from the cars being born on the production line to the icons resting in the museum. And when the doors of the museum workshop opened, with time and space to photograph in peace, the day became something I will remember for a very long time.

The workshop is where the museum’s living history is kept running, and standing there with my camera felt like being let into the inner circle. The Porsche 911 GT1 was there, the Le Mans winner that blurred the line between race car and road car forever. Next to it the Carrera 906, all curves and lightweight purpose, one of the most beautiful racing Porsches ever drawn. And then the 917, the Le Mans winner of Gijs van Lennep. For a Dutch Porsche enthusiast that car carries extra weight, and I have an exact scale model of it in my collection. Photographing the real car alongside its miniature counterpart closed a circle I have been dreaming about for years.

Upstairs, the Race Born exhibition delivered another highlight. Among the racing heritage stood the Mission X, Porsche’s futuristic vision of what a hypercar can become. The scale model of it had arrived at my door just in time for this trip, as if it knew where it needed to be.

The museum shop delivered a small victory of its own. I picked up a beautiful 1:43 of the Porsche 992.2 GT3 Touring in pink, a car I had watched rolling off the production line that very morning. Seeing a car being born and adding its miniature to the collection on the same day, that is MiniFlatSix in its purest form.

Because the morning belonged to the factory. Watching the 911s come off the line, one after another, is something every enthusiast should experience once. They call it the Porsche string of pearls, a slow procession of brand new 911s in every colour, each one minutes old and already unmistakably a 911. The precision, the calm, the pride on that factory floor. This is where it all starts.

Porsche, thank you for the warm reception and for the opportunity to photograph. Days like this are why MiniFlatSix exists.

The full galleries from this trip will arrive on the site in the coming weeks. Follow @miniflatsix on Instagram to be the first to see them.

A Rally at the Doorstep: Porsche 356 Speedster and 911 F Model

Sometimes the Porsches come to you.

A local snackbar , the kind of place you pass a hundred times without a second thought. On this day it became a checkpoint for a small rally, a puzzle tour that brought a handful of classics rolling through the streets right near my home.

Two cars made the stop worth every minute. The first was a Porsche 356 Speedster, beautifully restored, sitting low and clean in the daylight. The Speedster is the shape that started an entire philosophy at Porsche: cut the windscreen down, strip the weight out, and let the driving do the talking. Seeing one parked casually at a snack bar, surrounded by rally paperwork and coffee, felt wonderfully out of place and completely right at the same time.

The second was a 911 F model in full rally trim. Where the Speedster whispers elegance, the rally 911 speaks in a different register. Auxiliary lights, purposeful stance, the silhouette that carried Porsche through the Monte Carlo years. A car built to be driven hard, doing exactly what it was made for, navigating a puzzle tour through the Dutch countryside.

I managed to grab a few frames before the rally moved on. The best photography days are often the planned ones, the collection visits, the big meets. But there is something special about the unplanned ones too. A camera, a snack bar, and two classic Porsches that happened to pick your neighbourhood for their route.

The full galleries from this trip will arrive on the site in the coming weeks. Follow @miniflatsix on Instagram to be the first to see them.

Metropole Druten: A Visit to the Frans van Haren Porsche Collection

Some places are built for Porsche photography even when that was never the plan. Metropole Druten is one of them. Tucked away in the Dutch town of Druten, the museum houses the private collection of Frans van Haren, and stepping inside feels like walking into a carefully curated love letter to the marque.

The collection is rich, varied, and beautifully presented. What made the visit truly special was the welcome from the volunteers on site. They gave full room to set up shots, move around the cars, and take the time needed to compose each frame properly. That kind of generosity is rare, and it shaped the way the day unfolded.

The light inside the building turned out to be a gift. Soft, even, and forgiving, exactly the conditions that allow both the full-size cars and their 1:64 counterparts to be photographed without compromise. Several shoots came together almost effortlessly.

A 356 C was paired with its Minichamps and Kyosho scale model counterparts, a study in three eras of craftsmanship sharing the same frame. A 356 Speedster found its match in a Minicham

ps model, capturing the open-top purity that made the original such an icon. Downstairs, a 356 fitted with ski racks opened up an unexpected opportunity. The setup paired naturally with Schuco’s small 1:64 models, a rare moment where the scale and subject aligned perfectly.

One of the more unusual subjects was a Porsche in Rijkswacht livery, the former Belgian gendarmerie. A piece of Porsche history that carries a story as compelling as its silhouette.

Frans van Haren has built something remarkable here, and Metropole Druten deserves to be on the radar of every Porsche enthusiast passing through the Netherlands. The full series shoots from this visit will roll out on MiniFlatSix in the coming weeks. Keep an eye on the journal and Instagram for each release.

2,500 Porsches in Dinslaken

Some events feel like a parade. Others feel like a family reunion. The Porsche meet in Dinslaken on May 1st, 2026, was firmly the latter, just one with more than 2,500 Porsches lining up to say hello.

What strikes you first is the sheer scale. A river of flat-six silhouettes stretching as far as the eye can see, every era and every shape represented. But what stays with you is something else entirely: the people. This was an event for enthusiasts, organised by enthusiasts, and you could feel it in every conversation.

I spent a beautiful stretch of the morning with the owner of a Porsche 944, a car that often gets overlooked in the bigger Porsche story but absolutely deserves its moment. He shared the history of his car, the reasons it matters to him, and gave me all the time and space I needed to photograph it properly. That kind of generosity is the difference between an okay shoot and a memorable one.

Later I made my way to the Speedsters, gathered together by the Speedster Registry under the careful organisation of Jacob Achenbach. A line of open tops, each with its own personality, each with an owner happy to talk and happier still to let me get my models into position. There’s something about photographing a Speedster that feels timeless. There’s something about photographing them surrounded by people who love them that feels like a privilege.

That’s the thing about events like Dinslaken. When the gathering is built around passion rather than spectacle, the conversations are richer, the access is warmer, and the photography almost takes care of itself. Owners want you to see their cars the way they see them. They lean in, they share, they help.

What a fantastic Porsche flood. What a fantastic day.

The full galleries from this trip will arrive on the site in the coming weeks. Follow @miniflatsix on Instagram to be the first to see them.