That's a field modification and they probably built it because the cloth covering was ripped up or they are trying to save it.

Used to be very comman in the US Army. When I was in the 3d ACR back in the 80's many of our HQ vehicles were modified like that. Most of our 113's had wooden boxes built inside them and our Commo 2 1/2 ton was covered from front to rear with a large wooden shelter that even had an "attack" over the cab.

Same with CUCV's. I remember at Harmony Church one of the Drill Sergeants asked who had carpentry skills. Two others and I volunteered and ended up building a similar box for it. We later found out the alternative was less fun for everyone else. A similar but better thing happened at jump school.

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Same with CUCV's. I remember at Harmony Church one of the Drill Sergeants asked who had carpentry skills. Two others and I volunteered and ended up building a similar box for it. We later found out the alternative was less fun for everyone else. A similar but better thing happened at jump school.

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it is interesting to know that there was a lot of work carpenter on hummer! have you been taking photos of these arrangements ?
thank

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Same with CUCV's. I remember at Harmony Church one of the Drill Sergeants asked who had carpentry skills. Two others and I volunteered and ended up building a similar box for it. We later found out the alternative was less fun for everyone else. A similar but better thing happened at jump school.

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it is interesting to know that there was a lot of work carpenter on hummer! have you been taking photos of these arrangements ?
thank

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Sorry, Harmony Church was not an environment not conducive to taking photos. Wish I had though.
A lot has changed. My son graduated Basic a few months ago (Harmony Church is no longer there) and trainees were posting to Facebook from their phones.

That's looking good. Are you adding grain to the wood?

Wow, looks really good ... great idea :-)

Cheers
Walter

Looking good so far.

As far as the tires go, the kit ones (Italeri's originally, as most of the kit is, with a few added parts by Revell (soft top, brush guard, and winch bumper)) suck and are of a fictional tread. HMMWV tires never looked like that. The left side ones are of the older, bias ply tires. The right side ones are a newer, radial tire.

I would go with the radial tires if you are modeling anything past about 2000. If you notice, in your original pic from Gulf War 1, it has the bias ply tires. The newer HMMWVs in the pics posted by Frenchy have the radial tires.

I know the tire Revell is wrong when the other two tires, they are both radial carcass.

I have photos of the bias ply tires still being in use in 2011. They were not common in 2011.

http://www.hmmwvinscale.com/goodyearwranglerrtii.htm

These photos were of the tires on a M998 Cargo HMMWV belonging to the Arkansas National Guard in 2011.