Here I added more plating the turret and some detail to the rear MIC-LIC bean.






Later "yall"

Hello every one. Here's a bit of work for the day. I thought I built this mounting frame right but , It's to tall and I must fix the two top parts.




on these two parts guys I have no idea what they are and what they are used for., but I build them any way...




See yah all later..

Looking really good. Keep up the good work. It's coming together well.

Yes Sir it’s taken shape, really taken shape. What I really like is that it’s a clean build, sharp lines, plastic not melted by glue. I wish I could start mine…heck even finish my other scratch building projects, but with the wife sick and starting treatments next week I’ve put everything on hold. I love the engineer vehicles and have many projects half started, MICLIC AAVP7A1, HEMTTS, Armored Backhoe Loaders, combat engineer construction equipment, Trucks, M728CEV and M60 AVLB are to name a few.

Anyhow great work!

Happy Modeling,
Joe

Looking good Caveman III. You are doing some great work. And Joe the Line Charge container for the three shot Mk 154 is not the same as the ones on the ABV or other vehicles/trailers. It is more of a tall cube. Frenchys pictures above are the correct ones for the MK 154.
Outta here, Mike sends . . .

Hay Mother sorry to hear about your wife being sick and starting her treatments. If it's what I'm thinking, my hart gose out to you and your family. Like you mother I have a lot of on-going projects'. I work on what ever I feel like working on. An right now the ABV has my mind and when and if I hit that building wall, I hit it and move on to othere projects.
buh I don't think It's comming. I can tell you want, I look forward to building the markers and that awesome mine plough. An that mine plough is the number one reson I'm building this project.

Like I have said I never liked the M1 Abrams. I thought the turret is just to plane looking. An wile I have bean working on this tank I know just what part of the tank I liked. LOL It was the chassis only. An now with that wild looking small turret and over the top and aggressive looking mine plough. I thought now I can get in to than in a big way, so I stoped all my othere projects to work on this one.

Now I have said I doin't have enuff info and photos on just how the mine plough is mounted to the front of the M1 chassis. An now that I know wich company makes the mine plough. An when I start on that part of this project I'm going to send a link to PE and ask them for some help. The link will show them how much I have built and just what I will need to finish the building the mine plough.

Now don't thing I'm not going to shear what ever info I get, I will. Photos as well.
So for now I will have the front and top of the turret finished soon. and I will have the rear deck's stowage boxes and movable markers.

So thanks for your comments and I'll get back to work so I can show you guys some more work.

Hi Captin

Talking about the plow, mayse these pics would interest you ?






These plows were fitted to some USMC M1A1s at the beginning of OIF

I can send you the full-size pics if need be....

HTH

Frenchy

Howdy Frenchy, is the picture location identified as Camp Ripper? 1st Tanks left their Pearsons there before crossing LD in March, 2003. Outta here, Mike sends . . .

Hi Mike

IIRC, they were sent to me by Andy Elesky. One of them is captionned LSA-7 (=Living Support Area 7) so they must have been taken in Kuwait Here's another picture showing the same plow :


That's why I supposed that some had made it to Iraq but maybe I was wrong...

Frenchy

Howdy Frenchy, LSA-7(Life Support Area) is Camp Ripper where 7th Marine Regiment and 1st Tank Bn were staged in Kuwait before OIF began. TF Tarawa, the 2nd Marine Regiment with A Co 8th Tk Bn(Res) attached did take their Pearson Mine Plows into Iraq. I just recognized that lonely herd of green plows that we(1st Tanks) left behind in the sand in March 2003. Outta here, Mike sends . . .

Hay "Frenchy" thanks for the photos man, by the way do you have any photos from the rear of the plough?

You know I just cant wate till I stat on that thing.

Alas no....These are the only ones I've got.

Frenchy

I've just stumbled across this one :


HTH

Frenchy

Yep tht last photo will help when I build the front mounting parts. Here's some work of to day. (Sorry for the big size). I should have bent that middle rod to the right shape. To bad I have glued the sides on!

Way is the "TUSK" kit not used on the ABV??

I think it's more of a purpose-driven thing. A Tusk abrams is designed for urban warfare and closer-range combat, and the assault breacher is a bit more of an engineering/utility vehicle. I'm personally all for having as much exploding armor, guns, etc as possible on a tank (it's just so tough looking), but I can see why an ABV might not need it like a Tusk would.

Another few pics to add to your collection. These might be of some help when building the back portions and linkages of the plow, especially the last one. it was taken from Pearson's website.

This is one awesome build! I'll be watching this one.

outstanding I so cant wait to see the plow on the front, It's one mean looking beast

Hello guys I'm sorry I have not bean back to work on this one yet. As some of you know I jump around, trying to do as much work on all my on going projects. Well with my work on my IDF RCWS close to being done. I'm goint to do a little work on my two IDF projects and then it's back to work on this project.

well, if you must go... You're killing us slowly though

Man sorry for killing you all but scratchbuilding something as complexs as the IDF RCWS was really hard and took up a lot of time. With all the time that has gone in on those three wepons platforms, I think I'm going to have to put in mor time on the Mine plough.

Captin_Caveman_III,

I would like to introduce myself, my name is Ryan M. Girardot. I am the Integrated Logistics Support Manager on the Assault Breacher Vehicle for the U.S. Army TACOM-LCMC out of Warren, MI. You are doing a great job on the ABV kit! Our team would like more information on how to go about purchasing your kit(s) or preferably a completed model display. Please contact me at [email protected] at your earliest convenience.

Thank you very much!

Looking good Caveman! Maybe Ryan can help get the ABV produced in styrene! Give him a shout. Outta here, Mike sends . . .

Excellent work Caveman! Looking forward to seeing it complete!
Hopefully Ryan will help you with info to speed up the process.

btw,please check your pm!

This is a real monster, great Caveman.
Expect to see updates
Blackwater