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Spark mine roller on Cougar 6x6 mrap?
rogerjo1
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Posted: Tuesday, February 03, 2015 - 03:43 AM UTC
Are any of the avalible Spark mine rollers possible to use together with Meng models Cougar 6x6 ? If so wich of them?
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Posted: Tuesday, February 03, 2015 - 05:06 AM UTC
Roger,
I don't remember which references you purchased from me, but if you got the Cougar reference, it does contain a walkaround of the mine roller used on the Cougar. It's different than any offered by Legend so far but also doesn't appear to be too complicated to fab up. The trouble will be the tires - their diameter is so small you'd probably have to look to 1/43 kits to find the right one. Then you'd have to use two of them to make one wide enough, and finally cast 18 of them. Or you could wait and see what happens.

Here they are:

rogerjo1
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Posted: Tuesday, February 03, 2015 - 10:51 AM UTC
Thanks Robert, yes i got your amazing Cougar reference... I was only thinking if the cougar also are using the spark mine roller that legend or blast model already have,
But then i will wait a little, maybe Legend will release the correct one that you show here on your photo...
Frenchy
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Posted: Tuesday, February 03, 2015 - 01:34 PM UTC
The SPARK roller pictured below is fitted with different wheels, but I'm not sure these would be easier to source/scratchbuild....



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Another view :



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rogerjo1
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Posted: Tuesday, February 03, 2015 - 10:35 PM UTC
We can lets hope that Legend will release this mine roller also as they have already some spark mine rollers... so maybe if we will ask them to produce this one also, then we can maybe have one soon...who knows maybe they are intreasted...
henkp
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Posted: Wednesday, February 04, 2015 - 02:17 AM UTC
blast in france got also some sparkmine rolles

http://www.phpshopxml.com/blamod.shop/CID/af36b1bd67e6b42971e05c1fe8c058d7/function/itemPageDisplay/shopItemCode/BL35188K

http://www.phpshopxml.com/blamod.shop/CID/5e55c980854b5a73a4b1bae997fbbafb/function/itemPageDisplay/shopItemCode/BL35152K

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rogerjo1
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Posted: Wednesday, February 04, 2015 - 02:29 AM UTC


Thanks Henk, but the blast model spark mine roller for M-atv is now out of production...
Gilles at blast models wrote me this yesterday when i asked for missing parts in my kit:
Mine roller is now out of stock, I have no mould to recast so out of production statut, and not anymore parts left even for me.

Hopefully he will make new molds for it...
But it seems like they don't use that mine roller on the Cougar, that they use the version that Robert and Henri-Pierre shows us... So lets hope that one will also show up as a kit...
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