Mike, all I have to say is "WOW", keep up the good work.

Ronnie

CORRECTIONS:

#1 - I spoke at length, early on about the #2 and #3 differentials having "gear reduction heads". That was incorrect. While these two differentials DO have gear heads they are simply the additional gearing required to pass the driveline through and onto the next differential. They are not reduction heads.

#2 Several pages ago I identified two square metal rods that clip to the edge of the frame, (driver's side rear) as ratchet "load-locks". That was incorrect. These two square rods form a folding ladder that the operator uses to gain access to the left and right fenders for inspection and maintenance. There are actually holes in the edge of each fender to engage hooks that secure this ladder when in use. The ladder can also be hooked into the front skid plate to clean the windshields.

Simply BEAUTIFUL work there Mike!

A couple more dubious details added:

That is not to say they are not real and correct just questionable as to who but me will ever notice???



The huge castle nut that retains the towing pintle and the four bolts that secure whatever that large S curved plate is at the rear of the LHS.

Driver's side seat base from Eduard etch set. Seat base and fore/aft adjustment on left. Up/down adjuster on right.



Don't know if I should say this or not but given that the passenger side door doesn't ever open I am going to go with the stock (more or less) Italeri seat base on that side. I see no point in going through the heartache of building another one of these seat adjusters.

Getting very close to a point where I can install the engine for the last time! I wanted to share how nicely dirty with hoses more of less everywhere, the engine compartment looks. The photos don't do it justice.

Michael, these are called "Power Dividers"

Here is a generic illustration.

We call them "over the shoulder" differentials as they pass the drive "over their shoulder"'.

Thanks for the incredible transparent artwork and for your participation!

Very impressive work, Mike!

Mike when your ready to cable up the radio, let me know. Your only going to need 2 coax cables for the antenna, 1 power cable, 1 cable for the speaker(if you install one), and the hand mike w/cable.

I gotta travel over to revisit MikeyBugs thread (Looking for things to 3D print.) I think he did the radio but I know he did the speaker.

Thanks for the reminder!

Yes, he did the speakers and if i had a decent cast of the single ASIP or SINCGAR radio, I would have sent it to.

So then what will be my source for the correct radio for the HEMTT?

Mike,
It would have been Pro Arts but he shut down recently. D-Toys, Voyager, and E.T. Models has SINCGARS but to spend that money and only use the radio out of their sets is not good.

I really haven't seen anything worth the wild in plastic. There either to small or too big and look totally wrong.

I'll cast up a couple for you this weekend and you be the judge on how they look. And those I will definitely not charge you, because that is illegal.

Michael, excellent build!

Yea Pete, I found Pro Art but all that gear is fairly confusing. Did not know it was no longer available!

Finally found diagram of oil feed return line from the PTO hydraulic pump back to the early style oil reseviour.

Dustin what color did you most often see the ether bottle painted? In photos I have seen bright red, rusty silver and most often whatever the vehicle body color is.

Mostly orange and NATO green.

The color I re-imagine when I think about it, is orange. If I were building this, that's the color I'd paint it.

Here are the fender mounted slave jumper and the battery cut-off switch box that we spoke of earlier.



There is also another slave plug installed under the battery box on the other side of the truck. All three of these boxes on my HEMTT include their associated wiring cables.

Looking good.

Did some painting of both the chassis and the flat rack, then started working on the rear brakes. It might be time for another progress shot(s).

Working now on building a rear brake cylinder mounting bracket from a piece of large Evergreen C channel. I hope to include the slack adjusters and S cam rods.



I promise I will finally get to those hydraulic cylinders on the LHS. I started one cylinder and had problems so I have been holding off while planning my approach.

On the left those are the front brake actuators as provided in the Real Models HEMTT engine set. On the right are the Trumpeter rear brakes as provided to me through the generosity of Epi since I had originally ordered the wrong engine set from RM! **



** (If you order the RM engine set specified for the Italeri kit YOU GET the rear brakes in the set as well! Of course being me, I did not read closely enough and instead ordered the engine for the Trumpeter kit thinking they were all the same!)