back in around 1995, my cousin and me had a self invented wargame that we played on the carpet. We did not know that something like "tabletop games" existed, we just combined the PC games "Panzer General" and "Command & Conquer" with our 1/72 models using rulers & dice. (We also had a "real life" Panzer General Clone with squares on the backside of a wallpaper and self painted cards.)
Over all those years, some of the models used back then survived by hiding in non modelling releated storage areas.
One of them was the Opel Blitz from the ESCI/ERTL set of Opel Blitz and german Afrika Korps and it was in a somehow poor state:
First step was to try reproducing the front right mudguard. Trying to shape plastic card was not successful, so I opted for Milliput. To prevent it from breaking and to be able to sculpt it, I built a supporting structure from steel wires and superglue:
This was then followed by filling with Milliput and sanding (I think the result looks like "real" car bodywork
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The front bumper was missing as well, plastic card and Milliput to the rescue:
The same accident that deformed the front mudguard also destroyed the axle, so I fabricated something rouughly looking like the other side and added steel wire from one wheel to the other through the engine to gain stability for the handling during the following steps:
The fabric cover on the back of the truck was missing some "windows", those were added using masking tape and as the front right wheel was MIA since years, 3D printed exaples were added. I also added final details by using Dan Taylors generic german vehicle fittings set:
.Final results in the next post
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). I like the interpretation of Panzergrau, it's a nice dark shade of grey!