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Opel Blitz/Maultier

Original price was: £21.00.Current price is: £16.80.

SKU: 402012018 Categories: , ,

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