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Opel Blitz Wheels (Late)

 

Trakz
(A Division of the VLS Corporation)

 

S u m m a r y

Catalogue No. and Description Item TX 0014 - Opel Blitz Wheels (Late)
Price: USD$12.95 from VLS website
Contents and Media: 11 parts in pale yellow resin
Scale: 1/35
Review Type: FirstLook
Advantages: Beautifully cast; excellent detail; spare tyre included; parts are numbered to permit matching of pairs.
Disadvantages: No instructions; care will be required when removing casting blocks
Recommendation: Recommended.

 

Reviewed by Brett Green

 

FirstLook

 

Trakz has released a 1/35 scale set of late wheels for Italeri's Opel Blitz truck.

The parts are a simple replacement for the kit parts and are beautifully cast in cream coloured resin. Detail on the tyres and the wheels' nuts and bolts are excellent. The wheels are not flattened or bulged, as is appropriate for a cross-ply truck tyre.

 

 

Some care will be required when removing the wheels from the casting blocks to avoid damaging the tread pattern.

Instructions are not supplied with the set, but every wheel is numbered. Part numbers 1 and 2 are paired up for two sets of rear wheels, the two front wheels are Parts number 4, and Part 2 is the spare tyre.

 

 

This will be a useful accessory for anyone building a 1/35 scale Opel Blitz, and will feed the spares box with the extra styrene tyres from the kit!

Recommended.

Thanks to VLS for the review samples


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Review Copyright © 2002 by Brett Green
Page Created 30 August, 2002
Last updated 22 July, 2003

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