Hi Guys,
Hoping someone maybe able to help with both exterior and interior pictures of the above, really looking for workshop trucks and goulash cannons mounted in Opels, but will look at all for ideas.
Cheers
Mike
V2 cable service vehicle:
Not sure for what purpose this one: (Guess would be telephone truck)
Ambulance:
Cargo Truck:
Mule:
Unknown Designation: (Eastern Front)
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Modern restorations of cargo Blitz (mostly 4x4s shown here:)
Mercedes Radio Van: (Same Shelter Box would/could be mounted on Blitz)
Verlinden resin interior:
Some of my unfinished work the radio shelter:
Fire Truck:
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Hi Mike,
Many thanks for the reply and pictures, I am hoping to convert a couple of the Ambluance mauliter’s into straight truck and body types as I already have the ambulance in the straight truck form lol.
Cheers
Mike
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There is also a more rare “Low bed”, “curb side” version of the Blitz:
My “curb side” conversion with tool trailer:
(To my knowledge no one has yet offered this as a model!)
Other Model Conversions:
4X4 Blitz well before such models were offered:
Radio Van 4x4: (Work In Progress)
Ambulance 4x4: (Work In Progress)
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Converted Blitz Trailer:
There are now several proper trailers out there to use with the Blitz but I caught the “trailer bug” long before the current models were ever offered.
And yet an even later trailer conversion:
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Some very lovely and inspiring work there Mike!! And as you mentioned well before kit versions came out!!
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Even though you can’t see them really at all, it is the two sheltered trucks that I am trying to replicate, I am going to do one as a workshop and wanted to try and do the other as a goulash cannon, as the guys are all eatting food.
The popular model of the goulash cannon that comes on wagon wheels was designated to be always loaded INSIDE the cargo trucks as the wooden wheels simply could not survive the speed and punishment of being pulled behind a motorized vehicle. The field manual said they could be pulled slowly for only short distances, However rubber tired versions were also built that could be pulled behind the Blitz and other trucks.
My conversion:
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Yeah I was hoping to find some pictures / manual of one mounted in a shelter truck, all the ones I have seen are in open topped / canvas covered trucks and to my eyes both the trucks in the background look doubled doored to me.)
Here is a Blitz with a simplified enhietz (sp?) cab that might interest you:
Also some 2x4 chassis photos that might help out:
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I did get the mercedes version and then found out it was to late to match the period timeline of the photo. 
Not sure I follow you comment about the Mecedes being too late???
The Italeri Mercedes model cargo truck should work just fine if you can still find one. The cab is very nicely done though there are huge compromises taken by Italeri on the Blitz frame and underbody. I had to correct mine and ended up just making a postal truck out of it.
Postal Delivery Truck:
I was duty bound to modify the Italeri frame to more correctly reflect that of the Mercedes vehicle:
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I really doubt the cook wagon would ever be mounted inside a shelter body.* I have seen them in use in a cargo truck with the tarp partially pulled back.
*Perhaps in a field constructed cold Eastern Front dio.
I got the Merc 701 and it wasn’t produced until Aug 44 and those photos are Jan 6 44. Hence to late
I do actually agree with your thoughts re the field kitchen in a shelter body, I haven’t been able to find a single picture of one at all.
I am now leaning towards doing two workshop trucks,instead of one.
As in the original information I found with the photos it stated that there were workshop trucks mixed in with all the schwimmwagens an half tracks.
Or there’s this…
Field kitchen of SS Panzer Regiment 9. It’s hard to make out exactly what this truck is. It may be a standard lorry with a purpose built wooden or canvas top, rather than a closed van body.
For comparison, here’s a field kitchen on the back of a standard truck, possibly not an Opel, may be a Ford, or possibly a Mercedes diesel. This particular kitchen belong to SS-Wirtschaft-Bataillon 9, which contained the butchery and bakery companies. It’s hard to tell from the photo, but there’s no evidence of wheels on the field kitchen which suggests it has been built into the rear of the truck on some sort of framework, which may be a field modification (if you look carefully, there’s what looks like an angle iron support, just to the left of the chimney). Both this and the previous photo were scanned from Herbert Furbringer’s “9.SS-Panzer-Division”, Editions Heimdal, 1984.
Thanks 2 very interesting photos, Thanks very much!! I wonder if there are any clearer pic of the first varient? I seen simiar pictures for the second one. 
More field-made conversions :
« Gulaschkanone » :
Opel Blitz 3.6-42 with a lengthened wheelbase of 4.2 m
4x4 variant
More pics of the 1/35 one here
Bonus pics 
Borgward B3000 on the Eastern front
H.P.
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