Built this for the rise of the machines campaign and thought it might get more views if i posted it here now it's finished.
This what if model is set in time frame of the iraq war, the us are looking to uparmour the humvee due to losses suffered from IED's etc. am general start the mrap program on the surviving humvee fleet but the first few prototypes are top heavy and the armoured cabin proves too small.The mrap humvee program is cancelled infavour of specialised vehicles like the ATV.



Thanks to marko"skuki" for tips on the resin for the glass and the mud and dust from his ATV build.

This would be a useful MRAP it looks cool an practical an would be something I think they would use.

Happy modeling

That's awesome!!

Spoons that looks wickedly cool and absolutely awesome! I'd drive one! And I bet it flips a lot less than the M151 Mutts!

Makes me think of what might have happened had they combined the HMMWV ECV2 series and the Oshkosh TAK-4 suspension.

Funny you should mention the Oshkosh suspention, check out this vidio.

Mark

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1r83XQ7af-A

Oh yeah, there were definitely people who combined the HMMWV with the TAK-4 (and other independent suspensions as well), but not with the ECV2 series vehicles to my knowledge. The hood style on this what if reminds me more of the hood style of the ECV2 than the basic HMMWV.

Thanks for the feedback everybody, not bad for an old esci kit!

Cool idea and execution. It looks really neat.

....but i like it....

This is one mean looking humvee, I like it, looking natural and how you would think it would be, great job!

Bronzey

I like it....a lot! And it does actually look feasible!

that looks sooo cool!

how did you do the green glass?

Thank you for kind words everybody!
The suspesion is cut down from a spare AFV stryker,cheers chris!
Hi Matt the glass was made from pourable resin,not my idea i"stole it" from marko,heres his atv build i just substituted the brown paint for tamiya green.html://www.armorama.com/forums/191911&ord=&page=1

Heres the linkhttps://armorama.kitmaker.net/forums/191911&ord=&page=1

Not a far-fetched idea at all. I remembered having seen something similar before and so googled found this page: http://oshkoshdefense.com/vehicles/hmmwv-with-tak-4/

After watching that video this idea is not really a failed thing. I hope some of you other's build something like this!