Hobby Boss published a teaser photo of their upcoming release... can you guess what it is?

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It the cabin of a MAN Folgegeneration truck. it`s mounted on 5ton, 7ton and 10ton trucks. would be cool to have an up-to-date family of the Bundeswehr workhorse trucks, sending the RoG kits into retirement.

Lots of possibilities for TR/HB to grab our money:
- 5ton truck troop/cargo carrier (hopefully with separate
cargo bed canvas).
- 5ton truck with Artillery radar FERA
- 5ton truck with fuel tanks (two versions possible)
- 5ton truck engineer team transporter
- 5ton truck with shelter
- 7tom truck troop/cargo carrier
- 7ton truck dumper
- 7ton truck prime mover FH70 gun
- 7ton truck container transpoter
- 7ton truck NBC decontamination vehicel
- 7ton truck launching CL 289 recon UAV
- 7ton truck transpoter for Improved Ribben Bridge system
- 7ton truck transporting trust boat for IRB
- 7ton truck with LARS 2 MRL
- 10ton truck w/wo crane
And of course, all vehicle could be equipped with MSA add-on armor.

MAN Kat 1, wonderful beast. If you have ever climbed into one, you don't forget! For me this is one of the most wellcome releases I could hope for. Guess we'll enjoy the whole family. They could make the Roland and Patriot TEL models and even go further and bring the US Army M1000 series Pershing II TEL versions and the Canadian 10-tonner

As an aside, even if very, very similar-looking, the British Army HX series is completely different from the german original, as the whole HX chassis is based on the company commercial all-wheel drive family.

MAN truck? No way! It is "Chinese way" modified MAN cab on MAZ-547 chassis used for various launching systems:



Another example, the Chinese Type 03 equivalent of the Russian "Smerch":



https://armorama.kitmaker.net/news/23972
The cabs may vary but the MAN routes are obvious.
Cheers!

Is it a joke or you really don't see that this is a very different cab?... It is MAN.

You dont have to be so rude for that......

Rude?... I really don't understand what was the intent of that post...

I don't find it that rude, at all.
Let's remember that written language does not always reflect the actual tone the writer intended to use, and that English is not the natural language for many of us, which often leads to a few misunderstandings...
On the other hand, Pawel had consistently demonstrated here to be one of the most helpful guys with his knowledge and far from being a bully.
That said, let's go BTT, should we?

MAN Folgegeneration cab from a somewhat similar angle:



Not exactly the same but very similar ....

/ Robin

Some few years back MAN made a deal with the Russian 8x8 manufacturer to provide cabs for their military vehicles. The Chineese may have made a similar deal with MAN regarding the vehicles they are building in China under license. OR they may simply be building a similar version of the cab for themselves. (I suspect they are building their own, very similar cabs.)

I for one will be very happy to see new tool MAN 5T, 7T & 10T trucks, especially the 7T. Thank you Hobby Boss (now how about that M5 HST)

I think that it's the missing roof from my neighbors recycling truck...

Are these same types used by the British army?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rheinmetall_MAN_Military_Vehicles_(RMMV)_HX_range_of_tactical_trucks

"The first order for the HX range came from the British Army which announced in October 2004 that it had selected the MAN ERF UKUK Ltd proposal to meet the Support Vehicle requirement. The contract was awarded in March 2005.[1]"

plus

"The HX/HX2 ranges of trucks combine militarised commercial driveline and chassis with the latest version of a modular military-specific cab"

So, based on the two pieces of text above I would guess that there are some irritating external differences that M.A.N experts will detect immediately but amateurs will fail to see (I count myself in the second group, obviously ...).

/ Robin

Edit: Frenchy to the rescue, see next post:
Those differences are major, even I can spot those, even without my reading glasses ....

Here you can spot a few differences (the HX series one is on the left....)



H.P.

Hi;

O.k.--IF WERE SPEAKING ABOUT Truck's -- HOW ABOUT, Tatra ! There are A Whole series of them that I would like to see in plastic; there are some in resin, which are quite expensive. The Tatra is also produced by India as the BEMEL.

CHEERS; MIKE.

Is it released ? Wonder if it is more detailled than Revell kit.

Thanks for posting this pic, I was thinking about doing a MAN in British colours but now I see they`re not the same. I will stick to the German version now.