Rick Cooper walks us through a build of the Opel Blitz 4x2 Cargo Truck from Cyber-Hobby.

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Thanks Rick a well written review ! I almost look forward to the snow and cold for time to build this Opel gem. Tom

Superb review, Rick, you're raising the bar for all of us.

This one should just about put the Tamiya/Itaeri warhorses finally out to pasture.

I hope DML will extend this franchise to the 4x4 version and maybe some of the adaptations, too.

I'm sold. Time to get this truck.

NICE review, Rick!

Having just bought the CH Opel with Flak 38, I think my CH Opel 4x2 purchases are done, but were they not, this kit would be in line!

And yes, I would agree with all that the old Opel war-horses may safely head out to pasture, now that the D (in CH guise) has reared his head in this genre!

Of course, a 4x4 version of this key Wehrmacht truck would be most welcome...

PS: That triangular doo-hickey mounted on the cab-top-front is, I believe, a fold-down convoy marker sign common to many German cargo trucks of the era.

Bob

Not a convoy light but when raised indicates that the vehicle is towing a trailer.

Good review mate. Makes me wanna buy a couple but it will have to wait as I'm done to only one or two lives now as far as model purchases are concerned

Cliff;

RIGHT-OH! You are so right and I crashed on this one!

Shortly after I had posted my first thought on that marker, I handed the family computer off to the dotter for her to do homework and stuff and headed off to prep for lights-out time... Later, that marker came back to me in a rush!

But it was too late for me to retract and redo my post, so I figured to get to it from the office today... but you beat me!

Yes, it is a "trailer-in-tow" flag, and actually appears on many trucks (mostly commercial types) in Europe for years before and much after WWII - as I saw in my service there back in the later 70's! Silly me that this little detail had so badly slipped my mind - as my kids remind me, there must be growing sand-in-the-air-bearings and scratches across sectors in my hard-drive!

Bob

Last night I crashed my remaining lives on model purchases as well by buying a lot of PART PE and another couple of ICM kits for conversions so Any of the Opel Blitzs are off my radar for a long time to come