Inverse Model Fading

I'm trying to make a model fading when approaching it.
So basically you can see it only from the distance, giving it a touch of mystery somehow like a boogeyman.

However using negativ distances upon the normal fade distances as well as simply switching the values of the start and end fade distance doesn't bring up any results. Same goes for trying the "Fade Near" rendering mode.

I would be very pleased if someone knows some properties or entities which might be helpful for me to use.

Hmm it doesn't really work with the Render-Mode. Googling it up also reveals that there seems to very less experience with this problem. I'm also not much in favor of adding external materials my map since it's already pretty much big in filesize. As long as I don't find a way to work around I probably have to cut this little feature / easteregg.