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Posted: Friday, October 11, 2013 - 09:45 AM UTC
Russ Amott takes a look at the Roden Ludewig Aero version of the Opel Blitzbus, both in the box and built.

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Posted: Friday, October 11, 2013 - 01:10 PM UTC
Darren, thank you for your help getting this up. It is a great kit for braille scale modelers. I wish they would come out in 1/35 as well.

Thanks also to Stephen Lawson for getting me the kit.
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Posted: Friday, October 11, 2013 - 09:42 PM UTC
Russ, nice work with this full build that really gives an Insight into what it's like to build this. It's such a cool looking vehicle, but what you might call a conventional kit, which makes it quite challenging to build. The fact that it has that big open interior and yet the internal surfaces of the body just have the normal internal face ofa mould with all the ejector marks etc mean a fair bit of work and no proper detail on those internal bus walls. Maybe it really isn't too visible through the glazing though. As for the glazing sheet, yes getting that bend at the top for the skylights looks likea real challenge, I wonder if there isa way to do it... maybe clamping it to some former and applying steam?
Like your diorama suggestion, I was also thinking it would be nice full of figures, trundling up some dusty trail or maybe stuck in the mud...
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Posted: Sunday, October 13, 2013 - 06:21 AM UTC
Thanks, Matthew. The interior is somewhat visible, though not as much as with the larger buses. I really wish there were some figures to go with this, even the very basic seated figures seen in airplane kits would have worked which would go along with the airfield diorama.
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