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First shots of HIMARS?
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Posted: Saturday, October 28, 2017 - 09:11 PM UTC
I vaguely remember a HIMARS in a trumpeter catalogue.

Is this really it? Or is someone kit bashing.

https://imgur.com/gallery/oSPGn
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Posted: Saturday, October 28, 2017 - 10:01 PM UTC
I seem to remember it in a catalog a couple years ago too. Hopefully this means it is coming out soon. The plastic looks correct. Fingers crossed.
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Posted: Sunday, October 29, 2017 - 01:14 AM UTC
I hope so. I'm ready to build it and their new MLRS.
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Posted: Sunday, October 29, 2017 - 02:52 AM UTC
Found it. It is listed in their 2017-2018 catalog.

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Posted: Sunday, October 29, 2017 - 05:49 AM UTC
Yup! Hopefully they get it out. I'm not even gonna be pushy about it. Nobody else even has this on their radar.
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Posted: Sunday, October 29, 2017 - 02:48 PM UTC
They must have heard you! Test-shot pictures just posted on their Facebook page.

https://www.facebook.com/TrumpeterModel/
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Posted: Sunday, October 29, 2017 - 03:03 PM UTC
It looks like the kit will have the early armored cab. It had sharper edges and more numerous, rectangular uparmor attachment blocks. The most common version of the cab is more rounded on edges and has fewer, circular blocks.

The early version was used by Marines in Afghanistan in 2009, so it is still a good thing to have and converting it to the more current version should be easy.

Early armored cab (as in the kit):



Later armored cab:

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Posted: Sunday, October 29, 2017 - 08:09 PM UTC
The modern cab will take some conversion... I wish they'd come out with the current version. It'll take using an update set for new bumpers, carving out the windows, changing the doors to suicide doors, etc.







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Posted: Sunday, October 29, 2017 - 08:24 PM UTC
It can be backdated to an unarmored cab as well using standard M1083 cab, slightly modified (hardened windows and doors) too.

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Posted: Sunday, October 29, 2017 - 08:28 PM UTC
Has the tire pressure on the front wheels been reduced to lower the height for air transportation?
Seems a little lower than optimal tire pressure for hard surfaces ..
/ Robin
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Posted: Sunday, October 29, 2017 - 08:29 PM UTC

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Has the tire pressure on the front wheels been reduced to lower the height for air transportation?
Seems a little lower than optimal tire pressure for hard surfaces ..
/ Robin


It looks that way. CTIS is standard on all FMTVs.
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Posted: Sunday, October 29, 2017 - 10:29 PM UTC
HIMARS early armoured cab is a version of the Low Signature Armored Cab (LSAC), so Trumpeter had already done most of the cab work for this new kit. Hope they bring the later one, too.
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Posted: Sunday, October 29, 2017 - 10:45 PM UTC

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HIMARS early armoured cab is a version of the Low Signature Armored Cab (LSAC), so Trumpeter had already done most of the cab work for this new kit.


Yup, Trumpeter already has the armored cab and the basic FMTV 5-ton frame and running gear parts from earlier kits (M1078 LMTV Armored Cab and M1083 FMTV kits). All they need(ed) to do is the HIMARS specific parts for it. They also already have the fire control parts for inside the cab and the M26 Rocket Pod from their M270A1 MLRS kits too.
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Posted: Sunday, October 29, 2017 - 10:57 PM UTC
Gino, that's the ones I remember at Ft. Sill in 2004/2005.
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Posted: Sunday, October 29, 2017 - 11:10 PM UTC
I did a walkaround of the early version at White Sands Missile Range in '07.
Not quite as robust as my usual walkarounds as far as number of photos goes, but the usual array of hard to see areas, i.e. undercarriage, hydraulics along the top of the launcher, etc.







I'm offering it free of charge to anyone purchasing any of my other walkarounds, or anyone who has in the past week.
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Posted: Monday, October 30, 2017 - 12:44 AM UTC
I certainly wish/hope Trumpeter will make this rocket pod available separately as two/four of these would make for the perfect resupply load in all those HEMTT cargo trucks we currently have on our display shelves.

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Posted: Monday, October 30, 2017 - 02:06 AM UTC

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The modern cab will take some conversion... I wish they'd come out with the current version. It'll take using an update set for new bumpers, carving out the windows, changing the doors to suicide doors, etc.








What you posted is a FMTV cargo truck cab, not a HIMARS cab. This kind of cab is not used on M142 HIMARS.
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Posted: Monday, October 30, 2017 - 02:10 AM UTC

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Yup, Trumpeter already has the armored cab


No, they don't. HIMARS cab is so different that they probably didn't use any cab parts from the M1078 kit, or just some smaller details.


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and the basic FMTV 5-ton frame 


No, HIMARS has longer wheel base than M1083, so it uses longer frame.
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Posted: Monday, October 30, 2017 - 06:15 AM UTC

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Yup, Trumpeter already has the armored cab


No, they don't. HIMARS cab is so different that they probably didn't use any cab parts from the M1078 kit, or just some smaller details.


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and the basic FMTV 5-ton frame 


No, HIMARS has longer wheel base than M1083, so it uses longer frame.


I got it. My point was that Trumpeter has the basic parts that could be modified, changed, added to etc. to make the basic truck. I didn't say they were the exact parts needed.
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