I want to scratch build the shelter/box for one in 1/24 scale. Would like to know where to get good pics and dimensions, for the box and the equipment inside.

Thanks. Lee

Reference on this topic is about as scarce as hens teeth. (American expression.)

- Sorry this reply is so later in arriving. I have basically been sick with the Flu since late November. -

About the only reference I have ever seen is a sales photo of the Verlinden offering for a conversion to the Italeri Opel Blitz radio van (house body):



If one were to use this image as a starting point and then scale everything up to the desired 1/24th scale I think it would be do-able.

Using this as a starting point I decided that scratch building these various, more or less, common furniture parts would be possible.





Also I chose to build mine as a 4x4 Blitz which required both some mechanical and sheet metal conversions.

Here some pages from WWP-Special Museum Line #10 "Wireless for Wehrmacht in detail", covering the interior and equipment of Kfz.305/22 on Opel Blitz Typ S truck:

Outstanding!

Exterior wise there is reference for the house body even though it might be sitting on a Mercedes Chassis:

This following group of photos are my personal work as seen at the Victory Museum, Auburn, Indiana, USA.










These last five photos above copyright Michael Koenig - all rights reserved.

(I apologize but in three trips to this museum I was never able to get a look at the interior of the house body. My old photography instructor would say "you didn't want it bad enough." and he would be right!)

Not an Opel Blitz but still, I think, a worthwhile "radio van" reference photo:



Note the retaining belts on the radio equipment, the wiring circuitry under the table as well as on the rear wall/ceiling and finally the drop leaf table directly under the radios.

One item almost always left out: the all important synchronization clock in any German communications installation. Every night at midnight, the Enigma code settings changed, therefore knowing the correct time was very important. You can see a clock in one of the last interior photos that Angel has posted.



(I suggest scaling this image to 6 inches tall, print it in high resolution and then mount it to a shaped block roughly 2.5 scale inches thick, voila!)

I ordered a copy of this one, that you recommended in the Classified section:



I'll look for the wireless book, too.

I also ordered a back issue of Fine Scale Modeler from the mid-'80s with an article on building the box for a radio truck. I don't know if it will contribute much to the project, but I do like those old scratchbuilding and conversion articles. I already have the four walls and floor cut out for the 1/24 box. I'll post a pic if you want to see it. Not much to see, yet.

Hmmm. Dual rear axles. I wonder if that is the radio truck that ICM makes a model of?

Yes, I believe that photo is a Henschel 33 D1 Kfz.72 Radio Truck. A model of which is offered by ICM.

One additional general reference book for the Opel is the older Schiffer book; "Opel at War". However, while an excellent reference on the Opel, I have gone through my copy and the book fails to offer any information on the interior of the radio van.

F.Y.I. - More general reference on the Opel Blitz here on the Armorama site at:

https://armorama.kitmaker.net/forums/218643

Of possible good news to anyone wanting to scratch build a Blitz house body: Given that the body already provides a good bit of coverage to the rear wheels, adding rear fenders is strictly optional.
Example:


While I went with the fenders on my radio van, I chose to leave them off the ambulance just for a slightly greater visual distinction.



I suspect the fenders were left off to conserve material in the later years of the war.

Good info about the fenders. I also scrolled back to see what the wheel tubs/humps look like inside the house. Looks like one is concealed under a bench.

In the photos of your model,did you scratchbuild the interior in 1/35, or the entire house in 1/24?

All the work you see that I am posting here is done in 1/35th scale and based upon the Italeri Opel Blitz and van body.

Yes, one of the wheel wells is covered by a bench/storage box. The other was necessary to leave exposed as the radio operators would need the leg room in order to get close enough to the radios.

Beautiful build/conversion of the Blitz radio van by Renzo Bortolotto at:

http://www.scalemodelling.gr/en/2017/06/02/opel-blitz-field-radio-truck-2/