It's been a while, but I am finally putting down roots again and unpacking models. Here's my Italeri 1/35 Opel Maultier. I packed her away during my first cross-country move in Aug. 1990. She survived a farther cross-country trip in 1993, then two of only 1,800 miles since Nov. 2007. She hasn't been outta the box until a couple of weeks ago. Surprisingly, for Italeri's delicate details, nothing was broken off!
Not a lot of weathering, and the dust is real
What do you think, wash her off and add model dust? I didn't weather the tracks, either. And it looks like the vinyl wheels are attacking the styrene hubs. (My recently aquired unbuilt Italeri Maultier came with the tracks and wheels melted into the engine block.)My Model History spreadsheet (OK, stop snickering!
) shows that I paid $3.79 for it, and I built the model from May 25 - 29, 1983. I used Pactra International Colors and Pactra enamels.
