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Roden has announced a new version of the famous Opel Blitz, a tanker truck for refuelling aircraft.

The Opel Blitz truck was one of the most numerous and widespread in the German army and at the same time one of the best known types of vehicle of World War II. Besides the classic truck, one of the most prominent and familiar types was the aviation fuel servicing truck, the Flugbetriebsstoff Kessel-Kraftwagen (Kfz.385), which was widely used in all theatres from North Africa to the Eastern Front.

The Flugbetriebsstoff Kessel-Kraftwagens which were operated in the severe conditions of the Russian winter always moved with covered cabins, though it was considered that an open cabin would facilitate the driver's manoeuvring on airfields near planes before refuelling.
In comparison with the standard trucks the quantity of the Flugbetriebsstoff Kessel-Kraftwagen (Kfz.385) built was quite small (different sources indicate between 300 and 500 refuellers were produced), however in contemporary photos it is possible to see the Kfz.385 near all the main types of fighters and bombers of the Luftwaffe, as well as near large transport planes. Their military service lasted until the end of the war, and even the epochal transition from propeller to jet aircraft saw the continued use of the Flugbetriebsstoff Kessel-Kraftwagen (Kfz.385) - the first jets such as the Me 262 were also refuelled by these vehicles.

The kit includes decals for four different vehicles:
WL-157059, Eastern Front, Odesa airfield, November 1943 - April 1944.
WL-323851, Germany, summer 1943.
WL-183675, Sicily, 1942.
Leningrad Front, Hostkino airfield, February 1942.