Opel Blitz, DAK style

[AgentG]

This is my take on the venerable Opel Blitz kit from Italeri.

Not very complex, but still holds it's own after all these years. Biggest issue I had was this one was molded in red, black and tan plastic.

Given my prediliction for armor modelling you could guess where this was going.

Krylon Gray Primer makes a good base.







Wired the engine a little bit then realized the hood was molded shut. Not any more.





Four different colors later I had my mix for RAL 8000, a desert yellow brown used early on in North Africa

.

Stay tuned.

G

[AgentG]

As promised, an update.

A nice relaxing paint session yielded these results.

The base coat.









I used another mix of Tamiya colors to come up with RAL 7008, Graugrun .





A stencil set and Tamiya Flat White was used for the Africa Korps palm symbol.

More to come.

G

[LyleW]

Looks very good, but where are the wings?

[Duke Maddog]

Very nice! Excellent camouflage pattern and I commend you on the remarkable stenciling.

[Stikpusher]

Most of the older Italeri 1/35 armor/softskin kits are pretty sharp! They still hold up well to this day. Much better than most of the Tamiya kits of the same vintage. Nice work so far G!

[Stuart]

That is super looking build - I really like your painting on that camo!

[Thomas_M]

Looking good!!!

For you mentioned the different colours of the plastic: is this the 1/35 or the 1/24 scale kit? I once did the larger one, and this one had the multicoloured plastic. A pretty well fitting great kit!

[AgentG]

Thank you all.

This is the 1/24th scale kit. Thought I'd try my hand at weathering something larger for a change .

Here's where I'm at as of this afternoon.









Weathering is done with mostly oils at this point.

I got some really neat stowage items from Steve at Value Gear. They are from his 1/16th and 1/20th scale set.

So by picking and choosing appropriate size items I can go for a real "Indiana Jones" style diorama.

G

[Stikpusher]

Wow, I did not know that they did a 1/24 scale Blitz. Nice!

[Duke Maddog]

Me neither! Man, that is big! Great scores from Value Gear! He's the Best!