Knowing there should be an actual hydracrowd with updated cab (not sure but I think?) version released by TWH of the Caterpillar 7495, this just came to my mind:

What if someone made some kind of stairways and cab conversion kit for the already produced TWH 7495? I found 2 pictures of a 7495 without hydracrowd, yet, it had the updated body design.

I thought this could be an interesting idea. Anyone ever thought of that? If not, I bought a 7495 from a friend in southwest Washington state and thought it would be good to eventually work on such a kit... It would include the new cab, new right hand side stairways and a section to add to the housing under the cab like the real real. It could also fit for Bucyrus updated colours repaints.

Still, that's just an idea thrown in the air, likely to never happen, but I'm interesested to get more informations about the updates made to the machine from Bucyrus to Cat.

The non-Hyd Cat:




My shovel:




And what I'd like to do on the body (the blue tracks are mendatory.. I love blue!):