Hi everyone

I am building an Opel Blitz from Italeri for a diorama I'm working on.

I would like to model the blitz with it's tailgate down. So far I have looked through every book and had a good scour of the web but found no pictures to help me model the rear of the truck in it's open state.

I am assuming that the tailgate falls vertically and there is a fold down step halfway down the door which drops out. However I am confused as to how and where the door hinges, and how I could model this.

Can anyone help ?

cheers
Jon

bump for replies... such a tiny little detail, yet I can't find anything on it anywhere

any help appreciated, please guys - I'd like to get started the weekend

cheers
Jon

Hi Jon,

Sorry no luck yet.

Cheers

Al

Hi Jon,

Try this one mate:

http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images/view?back=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3Fp%3Dopel%2Bblitz%26fr%3DFP-tab-img-t-t500%26toggle%3D1%26cop%3D%26ei%3DUTF-8&w=520&h=390&imgurl=www.smhq.org%2Farticles%2Fopel%2Fopel-001.jpg&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.smhq.org%2Farticles%2Fopel.html&size=55.1kB&name=opel-001.jpg&p=opel+blitz&type=jpeg&no=2&tt=11,769&ei=UTF-8

Cheers

Al

Jon does this help?



Hers the link:

http://www.autogallery.org.ru/blitz36.htm

Cheers

Al

Jon another link:

http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images/view?back=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3Fp%3Dopel%2Bblitz%26fr%3DFP-tab-img-t-t500%26toggle%3D1%26cop%3D%26ei%3DUTF-8&w=800&h=487&imgurl=www.autogallery.org.ru%2Fk%2Fo%2F41blitz1_1_2ton_Adam.jpg&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.autogallery.org.ru%2Fgopel.htm&size=54.6kB&name=41blitz1_1_2ton_Adam.jpg&p=opel+blitz&type=jpeg&no=6&tt=11,769&ei=UTF-8

Lots and lots of pictures - too many for me to go through but you might well find what you are looking for in this lot.

Good luck with the project.

Cheers

Al

and finally

http://www.ww2mmrefphotos.com/photos/reich_vehicles.htm

Cheers

Al

thanks a lot everyone



in this picture you can see a little of what's going on with the tailgate, enough for me to space my tailgate on the model anyway.

cheers for your help

thanks a lot

Jon