My stepson Louis recently went on a school trip to Berlin. Apparently this was a great success - highlights included a visit to the Olympic stadium and a taxi driver who did impressions of the Fuhrer (including salutes) while driving. Souvenir shopping time was limited but he managed to find me this rather lovely 1/87 scale Volkswagen. Although this has the later large rear window it may well turn up as an officer's ride in one of my WW2 units.
Incidentally, 'Kafer' is German for Beetle....
Nice present!
ReplyDeleteI too use a Beetle as an officer's car for my late germans.
Berlin is a great place for a trip, I had good fun there, but alas I missed these souvenirs. One more reason to make another trip!
Must get a beetle! Kafer means something entirely different in the southern colonies Tim.
ReplyDeleteCould you mask the rear window and cut in an oval split-window?
ReplyDeleteGet radical, Tim. Make it a wood-gas burner!
ReplyDelete-Steve
Giano
ReplyDeleteI've not been there but it's on the list.
Paul
ReplyDeleteTrust you rough colonial types to lower the tone!
Brigadier Dundas
ReplyDeleteI could. But I can't see it happening!
Steven Page
ReplyDeleteIf it wasn't such a nice model I'd be tempted to mess with it. As it stands a bit of weathering will probably suffice.
What a beautiful model. Of course with its black & red colour scheme it would be very happy in the hands of an anarchist militia unit in the SCW...
ReplyDeleteMartin Rapier
ReplyDeleteThere's a thought! I', not sure when the first VWs would have arrived in Spain - probably a few years after WW2.