"up-armored" humvee

Welcome to the forum.
Verlinden makes some accessories for the Tamiya Hummer.
Blast also makes a conversion for the Hummer to make it the up-armored version.

Hope this helps. Again welcom to the forums.

No none makes a conversion for an actual M1114 uparmored HMMWV. Blast Models does quite a few accessory sets. Here are a few reviews of them. http://www.armorama.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Reviews&file=index&req=showmaker&makerid=95
Eduard does a bunch of HMMWV photo etch sets too.
Hope that helps. Be safe and keep your head down till you get back.

PS, I was over there with 3ID for the invasion, good luck.

All I can say is that none of them are close to what a up armored HMMWV looks like. Unfortunately where I work where they are being tested and cant take photos due to security reasons. Maybe they will be on the internet somewhere.

It's been covered by HeavyArty pretty well already, but you can probably get a lot done with sheet styrene and some other bits and pieces as well. While I was in Afghanistan, we had all of our rolling stock upgraded with armor kits, especially for the IED/mine threat we faced.

Also, welcome to the forum and stay on your toes so that you will (not "if") come home and get started on your project, and show us some photos, too.

thank you gentlemen for your input. i have a digital camera over here and about eight different versions of the humvee and plenty of room on the camera so you can bet i'm gonna get alot of pics. the suggestion to use sheet styren seems the only option i have to model a highback with armor plateing. but, as some of you seem to know, thereis a hardback that is built with the armor and then shipped over and those suckers are tanks. did you know they're turbo charger.

when we first got the humvee's the unit who had them before showed us some damage an IED did to an uparmored one. the bast*rds took out the air-conditioner. no mercy. after we'de been here for a few months the same truck took another IED. no one was injured and just a few patches put the truck back on the road.

i lost my section leader to an IED. he wasn't in an uparmored truck. they (they being the powers that be) have put big s.a.p.i. plates over the door and some kevlar blankets in the floor and under the seat and call it good. how much is an american life worth. obviously not the cast of an armored humvee. breaks my heart.

anyway sorry not the place. you can bet i'll get pictures and thanks for the help.

Sorry to hear about your section leader, what a poor reason to lose someone, not having the proper protection. Just take care of yourself and get home as soon as you can. We started with the kevlar blankets and sandbags route, then had HQMC send out a team from Albany to do the kit upgrades while we were at Bagram. Every little bit helps, that's for sure. Doesn't look like my unit is going back in theater until next fall at the soonest, so we'll have some time to learn from the lessons everyone else is paying such a high price for. Anyway, just stay safe and keep making that "to-do" list for when you get back. Any and all pics you can get of the equipment there would be greatly appreciated by all of us here on the forums.

Another "reason" for not wanting to up armor humvees over here is that they then stay here. Our command has decided not to do anything to ours either cause they want to be able to take them back home. I feel your pain! So we roll around with sand bags and blankets which makes the damn thing heavy and sluggish especially when you are trying to haul butt through tight quarters. I am just waiting to break an axle. Anyway, you take care man and Ill see you back home.

Makes me wonder where exactly is that 87 Billion is going! It actually makes me angry. I have lots of old Army buddies over there as well as a cousin. 87 Billion and we cant get freaking simple sheet steel armor on our humvees and other soft skin vehicles? Outragous!
Not wanting to up-armour because they want to take the vehicles back? I guess a human life doesn't cost as much as a Humvee.
Sorry for the ranting guys....It just doesnt make sense to me......although nothing in the armed forces ever did.
Ryan

Another sign of the mlitary genius's running things. Do what you can from whatever you can beg, borrow or steal. Like to see your picture's
John
Helicopter's don't fly, they beat the air into submission

Just got the news not even ten minutes ago. we're getting two more uparmored, apparently new. go figure. i'm writting to ask you can remind me how to get pictures on the site. I may not be able to and will have to send them out on disc when i get back. i'll try to take them tomorrow, we haven't had a mission in a few days, maybe i'll get lucky and get one more "day off."

for those of you that have been over here, i would, and probably a few others would like to hear a few stories.

To post photos, they have to be hosted on the web somewhere first. Then go to the photo and right click it. Click on properties. You will see a URL address for the photo. Copy this and place it between the following code [img]photo URL[/img} replace the last } with ]. I had to change it so the code would be visible.