BOX CONTAINS: MODEL OF TRUCK PE PARTS ARE INCLUDED 6 DECAL OPTIONS
This is partial text from the full article (usually with photos) at https://armorama.com/news/35442-german-3t-cargo-truck-3-6-36s--pritsche-normal-type--military-service
This is partial text from the full article (usually with photos) at https://armorama.com/news/35442-german-3t-cargo-truck-3-6-36s--pritsche-normal-type--military-service
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So how very different - apart from the rear suspension - is
this from the Tamiya Blitz kit - and for how much more money ?!
Come on MiniArt give us the 4 wheel drive TROOP CARRIER VERSION - PLEASE !
Parts count and level of detailing?
Tamiya’s Blitz is nothing compared to Dragon’s version.
That is a great kit!
I hope that miniart will give us a 4x4.
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Guys, cmon, You should know Miniart by now. They will probably produce every possible version civy or military and milk this with decal variants for years.
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I certainly hope so 
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It also appears to say “Opel Blitz” on the radiator, as it should, whereas the Tamiya one doesn’t say anything to avoid copyright… There’s also the Italaeri Blitz, which does have this feature and despite it’s age does produce something that looks like an Opel Blitz and is much cheaper than any of them! The worst aspect of it is the tilt, but Tamiya evaded this by not providing one! Although there are much better kits available (hullo Dragon), I still have a bit of a soft spot for this relic, as Italaeri took a punt on a few German soft skins when the big boys didn’t bother.
The MiniArt kit shows six wheel nuts, like the Tamiya one, as opposed to the Italaeri’s original eight (which implied an impressed vehicle - the purpose built military ones had six). The box art makes no mention of Adam Opel though, the 3,6-36S was Opel’s model code but it was also made under licence by Mercedes amongst others.
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The Italeri kit is for sure outdated, but the general lines of the cab are still probably the best rendered to date. Somehow all the offerings from other brands suffer cab issues here or there.
The six and eight nuts wheels doesn’t have anything to do with civil or military production, these were just an evolution of the design. The earliest production Blitz had wheels with 6 nuts + 4 vent holes, these very soon evolved into the popular 6 nuts + 6 vent holes and thereafter into the final 8 nuts + 8 eight vent holes (around 1941, when the extra set of rear springs was introduced too). There were some subtle differences in wheel stamping along the production.
Curiously the Miniart boxart shows the cowl side vent flap (an early production feature) in front of the door, but that is absent in the Cads. Depending on how they arrange the parts, the base model could be squeezed to offerthe whole family, from earliest to final Opel Brandenburg production (changing hood, top and rear cab panels, rear axle, wheels, cargo body, headlights…), plus the license-built Mercedes L701 with its Einheitsfahrerhaus. I’d love a 4x4 variant (which could sell like candy), but it needs in fact much more work and new moulds than we might think, so looking at the sprues may tell what is coming and what not.
As an aside, it was planned to force Ford and Borgward to also produce the Blitz. Ford finally went around this promising to increase production of their own V3000, and Borgward was about to retool their factory when aerial bombing prevented this.
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I absolutely love the WH country sticked in the second camo. So that police abroad knows where you are from right ? It reminds me of a friendly discussion with a policeman on a reenactment event where we tried to explain to him that the WH license plate on our Kubel is original to that car and it wasnt oficialy revoked so it should be legal to drive right ?
Well let us hope for many physical variants as well as decal varieties! This kit looks extremely well done. Also glad to see the “Opel Blitz” badge making again an appearance. However Tamiya can always say their’s is a model of the Mercedes license built version. (Totally identical but without the OB badge.)
And once again: Now for a 4x4 version please!
4x4, That would be the A (Allrad) version
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Again the mechanical and proportional differences in the 2x4 and 4x4 versions are somewhat extreme. I highly suspect this would require the tooling of an entirely new kit. Only the loadbox, wheels, tires and maybe some parts of the cab tooling would be salvageable.
The entire 4x4 truck sits higher to allow for the front drive. The front fenders sit lower and more to the rear on the 4x4 as does the front axle. Then there are the front wheel drive components themselves and the different front suspension to be tooled up.
I apologize to those who may be bored with my again posting the following photographs.
Drive line parts lifted from a Canadian CMP vehicle, (both GM Companies.) Banjo differentials have been narrowed to portray the more ovid shaped differentials of the Blitz.
Sheet metal differences include lowered front fenders moved to the rear. The front fenders no longer cut up into the hood side skirts. Also the fenders now encroach slightly into the cab doors requiring a modification there.
The differences in the two cabs may be hard to pick out but from a construction and model making standpoint but they are rather extreme.
