Opel Blitz & Maultier (SK) - German Army

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The German Opel Blitz & Maultier pack contains:

11 Models, 1 Crew

• Components to make 1 Opel Blitz, OR Maultier variant, model
• Complete, full colour - building & painting guide
• 10 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 1941 following the dire Rasputitsa conditions of the Eastern Front that had brought the entire army to a stand still. This conversion, utilizing the track system of the obsolete Panzer I, gave the German army a very competent all purpose mover and it would see action through out the rest of the war

Supplied unpainted & unassembled