Description

Includes:

• Components to make 1 Opel Blitz, or Maultier variant, model.
• Complete, full colour – building & painting guide.
• Plastic Seated Infantry
• Waterslide Decals
• Clear acetate template for windscreen and side windows
• Play data cards
• Smoke & damage markers

The Opel Blitz came as a Type S 2 wheel drive and a Type A or “Allrad” that had a 4 x 4 chassis, enabling it to cope with most conditions and provided a superb structure on which were built such conversions as a radio truck (a metal and wood superstructure on the rear that housed radio equipment), Kfz. 385 Tankwagon (a specialized fuel tanker conversion), plus a variety of local workshop produced anti aircraft weapon platforms – mounting everything from the standard Wehrmacht 20mm & 37mm AA to the more feared Quad 20mm Flakvierling 38 AA gun.

Perhaps a more famous adaptation was the Opel Maultier “Mule” half-track. Introduced in 19