M160 Mine Clearing System in 1/35

Got a new one I haven’t seen on here has anybody seen this monster it would be amazing to have in 1/35. I know trident miniatures makes them in 1/87. So, my question to all of your more experienced modelers is what’s the best way to build this?


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My wife and I are making our annual pilgrimage to the Keeter Center this month for some excellent dining - somethng I would encourage anyone visiting the Branson, MO area to experience.
I’ve been thinking about what else we can do, and while I hate dragging my wife on model building related excursions, she’s happy as long as there’s a good Korean restaurant nearby, like last year. That said, I’m toying with the idea of visiting Fort Leonard Wood, where I’m sure if that thing is to be found anywhere, that would be the place. Pictures and measurements would follow, of course.

As for building it, the tracks are always the hardest part. But most photos of the thing in action show them pretty muddied up - the lazy scratch builder’s best friend!

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To my knowledge, there are an Engineer museum, an MP museum and one other located at Ft. Leonard Wood. I’ve wanted to make the trip for a while now. Only 2.5 hours away. Wayne

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Further research shows it’s on my way - Bentonville, Arkansas. But we’ve already been to Arkansas recently. I’m not really into fried okra or possum pie. :slightly_frowning_face:
Chocolate gravy could be the best thing ever, or the death of me,

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Russian version of the same vehicle.

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I’ve been eyeing the Foxhopp kit for quite some time now. The vehicle is based on MV series of vehicles built by Croatian company DOK-ING and has seen action in Ukraine.

Live Resin also makes a kit in 1/35:

Mario

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MV-4

https://x.com/i/status/1731660421398990873

https://x.com/i/status/1825217359403184458

H.P.

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D U N son!

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Amazing and thank you and I hope you have an amazing 4th

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I would hate for anyone to think I would want to rely on just the data plate. I took measurements, 65 photos, and two videos.

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I never seen or heard of this before. What’s the story behind it? :grinning_face:

(Sorry, I just don’t have time to Wikipedia the AFV). Thanks.

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I could simply do what other esteemed members of the forum do when something is outside of their wheelhouse - Google it, and then act as it if I knew it based on firsthand knowledge. :rofl:

But instead I’ll just post this link:

In addition to the flail it has the mine roller attachement:

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@18bravo Many thanks! :grinning_face:

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Amazing pictures and thank you for your time and effort. I never knew the actual nomenclature of this beast we always just called them Doking. I think that was on a name plate welded to the back of them. As a route clearance unit, we had them but iv only seem them used in practice in the motorpool and never in actual use.

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Dok-ing is a name of the Croatian company which originally produces this vehicle and a number of other robotic mine-clearing systems.

Mario

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Sure is and I think that we might have been using them in some form of test situation. I don’t know this for sure but the engineers didn’t seem as excited to use this as they did the other robots we had. I think the time trying to load and unload this beast had something to do with it. It’s not a quick process and standing outside on route with all the bad guys watching was something we tried to limit.

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Indeed. They even put it on the data plate:

At over five tons, the thing wasn’t exactly light.

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And I think just a little wrong for route clearance methods. Perfect in a controlled mine clearing situation but not in all hell can break loose at any moment situations.

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Now I just to try and persuade Trident Miniatures to upscale their products.

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Over twenty years ago, I scratch built an M1 240 mm Howitzer. (and no, no company immediately came out with a kit of it) :rofl: :rofl: I even posted in progress photos on the old Armorama.

However, there had already been a resin kit in 1/72 by Hauler. Even though I had photos and measurements from two of these beasts, I simply laid the parts on a photocopier and scaled the images up. For the trails, I cut the images out and spray mounted them to Evergreen styrene, then cut the pieces to shape. One of the easiest cheats out there. For the rest I just had to scratch the parts and match their size to the images.

If you’re really set on building this thing, I could send you the measurements, but to answer your original question, I’d purchase the 1/87 version and do what I outlined above.

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