Great work on this conversion!!!

Unfortunately the Italeri kit comes with wrong rims...

The Opel rims never fit the Mercedes L 3000.... Mercedes built in rims with equal diameter and with the same type of tyres, but the rims had 2 or 8 holes...

The right wheels are produced by MR-Modellbau/Germany.

Nevertheless you've done a great job!

Ingo ,

To " answer " your Question..

This is NOT an Opel model by Italerie...
It is a Mercedes.....
And the wheel problem i know to me . It was discussed on the Twenot site earlier.
But thanks for the reminder !!!!

Eric

It was not my intention to laugh at you or at your work....

I know that this is the L3000 kit (with all its faults...). The Wheels and many other parts were taken over from the Blitz kit and this is a shame!

How I should know that the wrong rims were discussed earlier?

I'm a big fan of german lorries myself and therefore I've collected some knowledge about them. I only wanted to help cause it's too bad about all the fantastic scratch building you've done.

If comments are'nt wanted in this group I'll watch, wonder an keep silent next time...

ingo,
Knowing Eric these past months I think you can take his waving smiley guy at err..."face" value and believe he was not upset by your remarks.

Sometimes this mode of communication is difficult as you can either read too much into something... or not.

Welcome to the site and I hope you post more!

Cheers,
Jim

Ingo,
It was not my intention to offend you .

But i did not know that Italerie just took over the rims from the opel version . So in this case thanks for the information .
The next time i will build a Mercedes of this type i will add te correct wheel instead !!!!!!!!
Another lorry is waiting to be build already ( The Opel radio wagon with interieur )
I will try to find the proper information for this truck....


again sorry that i offend you it was not intended ..

Eric

:-)

So what information do you looking for?

Maybe I could find something useful in my archives...

Thanks for the tip on using toilet paper on the seat, this solves a problem I have with some canvas that just didn't look real at all. Keep up the good stuff! - Well written and great photos.

Spider,

Thanks for your comment .

And now you see that you can add nice details with a minor off goodies ...
In a very cheap way...

keep on modelling

Eric