Has anyone heard about the new COMBATT trucks the military is testing? Their thinking about using commercial trucks such as the Dodge Ram.

Well, I decided to try and scratchbuild one. Just one question. What can I use for radio antennaes? I cant seem to find anything that will work. Thanks for the help.

What scale are you using?

Have you tried stretched sprue?

Here's some pics of a few they're testing:

Kool pics, Ken, Where'd you come by those?

Rob

Those aren't all Dodge pickups........ st is a Chevy Second is a Dodge And the rest a Fords..........

The current Military trend seems to be Commercially Availabble Vehicles. Take a Look at the Familly of Med. Tactical Vehicles..... http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/index.html

M1078 FMTV
M1079 FMTV
M1081 FMTV LVAD
M1082 MTV LMTVT
M1083 MTV
M1084 MTV
M1085 MTV LWB
M1086 MTV LWB
M1087 MTV
M1088 MTV
M1089 MTV
M1090 MTV
M1091 MTV
M1093 MTV LVAD
M1094 MTV LVAD
M1095 MTV MTVT

Matt

Well, they look pretty cool...but they'll have to convince me. I remember the last time we bought the "toughest available" commercial pickups, etc. They were junk within a few months of soldiering. They were very expensive to buy, and very expensive to repair, seemingly breaking parts that no one ever expected them to break. I remember a laundry list of one of a kind component failures in every motorpool that ever had them. I was glad to see them junked.

So, I can be convinced, but whoever is selling them is going to have to work at it!

Thanks for the help guys. I will post pics when I finish it. The scale is 1/25th

For your antenna, you can use 0.2mm metal wire !

I saw one up close at the detroit international autoshow last year (well worth the visit if your within a few hours driving). I didn't take any pictures of it, I wasted all my last photos on an SS Camaro . From memory it looked a whole lot like a regular truck with a severe lift kit on it. The one I saw was a chevy (I think I saw 'Uncle' Bob Seger at the show). Does someone make a Baja truck kit, possibly you could bash with that.


Jeff

From what I inderstand is that these vehicles will replace the HUMMVs in the corps-level support units. The HUMMVs will be reserved for the front line units. These appear to be much better vehicles than the old Dodge 880-series and the follow-up Chevy CUCVs.
The Army needs a REAL utility truck - a FORD At least that is what I drive - "A friend never lets a friend drive a Chevy"

I have a Ford, I would tell my friends not to drive a chev, but I need someone to give me a ride when I'm found on road dead. :-)

The Army should take a page from the old "Simon and Simon" series, Dodge Powerwagons all the way!