Very glad to know you appreciate that work.
And now one question please.
Is there anyone among you who knows the real purpose of those add on armors? I mean...someone told me are full of water. Is it possible in your opinion? Who knows more?
Thanks in advance.

I beleive that these add on armor are MEAP (Mrap Expedient Armor Programm) pieces.
So they are upgrading the crew protection.

I dont have many pics from buffaloes with them, if anyone have ????

Guido dit you make some drawings from a side cut of these armor block ?
That's a good idea to hide the wrong side from my Buff. TIA

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and the last one
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look at the exhaustpipe??
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Thaks Henk for the pics; but I don' t understand where the exhaust is going through !

thats not exhaust from the buffalo thats fog condencing inside the C-17 its from the air condidtioning its the cold air mixing with the hot air from the outside when they opened the ramp on the back of the C-17

AAAhh thanks, but where the normal muffler is there is a block, so where is the muffler and exhzaust pipe ?

Beautiful detail work. The braided hoses, weld beads, simply mazing work.



John

Thanks a lot for your nice comments, mates. And for your help.
Ok, that's not the exhaust pipe......so, where is it?
And this pic shows, Pascal, how it goes through.


For discussion only.


Cheers

Just what every combat cameraman needs... a tomahawk that covers his mag pouches.

Hi Guido !

I imagine the exhaust exit near the first rear wheel because we can see some smoke marks in that spot.

Cheers !

Marco

Thank you once again, mates.....maybe the tomahawk is for a rapid photoshop on the ground:-)?

I need your help, please.
Once side add on armors are on the vehicle, the rear mudguards are necessary fixed in a different way. That because the steel rods (two of them, I think) that support the mudguard would be in contact with side armors.
I'm not able to understand if there's an additional bar or rod for this use. I think so, in fact the rubber mudguard is naturally bended down. It seems there's a flat support.
In the red circle there's what I mean.





Someone over there so kind to give me his help :-)??
Thanks in advance.
Cheers.

I think this can help you :

Yessss they seem to be bolted directly to that side armor section. Perfect
Pascal, what can I say? Thank you soooooo much!!!
Cheers.

Amazing job you are doing here... Keep pics coming - very inspirational for me!

If you are talking about those large boxes on the exterior of the crew compartment, they were added to Iraq-based trucks to defeat explosively formed projectiles (EFPs), a particularly nasty form of IED that (thanks to Iran) became widespread over there around 2007 or so. No idea what is in them, that is highly classified so I doubt you will get that answer.

I'm hoping that they release a late version Buffalo with these included.

John

Thank you so much, John. And all of you, mates.

New updates on my Buffalo. I finally fixed the MEAP side armors and gave a first general paint coating. Enjoy them.




























That's all folks. Thanks everybody.

great !!!