To all who have knowledge of the Vietnam Conflict. I read somewhere that the Letourneau was tested or operationally used in Vietnam.
Found this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJDEpfHZWEY

Some unusual machine, but please not from Dragon Black Label.

Indeed it was deployed to Vietnam...

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-monstrous-tree-crushers-the-us-military-used-to-level-vietnams-forests

There are photos in the US Army monograph on jungle clearance operations. This is one of those projects that has been lurking in my mind for decades. In 1/76 the side elevation fills most of an A4 sheet but there are loads of areas of it on which I lack sufficient info to tackle a plan.

I fear that a plastic kit would be horribly simplified and the surviving civvy examples are not very like the military ones so you'd need a proper enthusiast to work on it rather than a commercial outfit where getting something to market ASAP would (quite reasonably) be the priority.

Great machine, but looks quite vulnerable to Charlies RPG`s.

BLU-82B or GBU-43/B are somewhat less sensitive to interference by enemy ground troops

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_upy14pesi4

/ Robin

I have a 100-page 1968 Army report about the Le Tourneau tree crusher (a.k.a Transphibian Tactical Tree Crusher) testing in Vietnam, but the included pics are unuseable...

There are a few period pics here (tons of lesser known Vietnam War pics to see BTW ! ) :

https://www.fold3.com/browse/1/hURf3JqG6CK2DFIJmgqQHata9

H.P.

Speaking of trees and de-foresting, I've still got my fingers crossed for a 35th scale Rome Plow...

Takom? AFV Club? Anyone...?

Johnny B.

When all the Wehrmacht and Soviet prototypes and Paper Panzer sre done by at least three companies simultaneously, THEN we can HOPE for such ordinary stuff like Dozers, Graders and Excavators.

The best bet for the off-beat things would be 3D printing. It would take someone who knows CAD and has the time and desire to draw it all out. The print would likely need some work as the technology is still far behind injection molding but it is the best chance that we would see something that could be used as a starting point.