Time to get started, my build is the Italeri 1/24th Opel Blitz Firetruck



To start off I have put together a few of the sub-assemblies and started to clean up some seams and gluelines.



At the end this will get the Olive Drab treatment and be a pair to my Blitz tray, but without the same degree of weathering as I'm sure the emergency vehicles got well looked after on the airfields.



There's already some awesome work going on in the other OTR build logs. The gallery for this is going to be a thing to behold !!

Cheers, D

Great start. Will look good with the other truck.

That Italeri firetruck is on my kits to buy list. Looking forward to more.

Seems you can't quote with only a photo.
The other one is the one I mean.

This one is on my workbench also.

Nice kits.
Like the firetruck.

Erikssson.

Hmmmm. guess you can't do that...learn something new every day!

Wow...........nice truck D..........green...........




Couldn't resist it. Nice to see ya building something without wings.

Hermon

D,
I assume that your diorama is depicting WWII !, if so (just had to put on my anorak ) remember that the kit rims are post WWII (I still haven't found a pic of a Blitz with those rims ).
However just a quick swipe with an oval riffler file will make a huge improvement IMHO.
You may have come across this site before:
http://www.autogallery.org.ru/blitz36.htm
Keep us posted on your progress.

Thanks for the link Roger, it shows what a versatile old rig the Blitz was (and still is), and you're right, it also shows that the rims are a bit off. The only rims I could see with triangular holes showed 8 holes, where mine have 6. I will think about giving them a quick hit with a needle file to round them out a bit.

Cheers, D