The Meng Caterpillar D9 kits on the shelves now may be the last we see of this kit. Caterpillar forced them to stop production and pay liscensing fees on each kit sold; Meng said we ain't playin that game and they're fighting it out right now.

Great stuff. We need more construction vehicles like scapers and dozers. I hope they do civilian dozer versions as well.

Hi guys, Tank Workshop has issued an 1/35 D7 dozer AFAIK. It is a resin kit if I remember well! Cheers Romain

Resicast had released one as well, but it's OOP now... Maybe Mirror Models should start worrying about their own D7 kits release H.P.

This is a caterpillar: yellow caterpillar Probably copyrighted by: http://keithlevit.worldofstock.com/index.php?m=inquiry&show=9&sv=&cu=NIN1348 maybe Frenchy can find an image of a caterpillar-lawyer somewhere / Robin

Resicast had released one as well, but it's OOP now... Maybe Mirror Models should start worrying about their own D7 kits release H.P.[/quote] That's what I was thinking. It's nice to see this from Miniart but I'm surprised they didn't do a different model instead of another D7 seeing as Mirror are doing one.

Well for my two cents just drop the cat name off the mold and resume production Caterpillar isn't the only construction vehicle company out there. Deer makes loders and dozers along with other companys theres a japanese or korean company out there making some pretty huge equipment in the real world so why cant we have some nice modern engineering equipment in the scales we build in besides the few items out there in 1/25 scale. Its good advertisment for them anyway. Maybe with the low oil prices the cost of plastic will drop a bit also we can always hope.

They added some pics of the model Miniart site Hisham

LINK LINK Here are 2 pics of one that I completed but in restored yellow.