Mercedes Arocs Autotransporter

GI_Jack · October 11, 2015

Hi

I would like to present my Mercedes Arocs Autotransporter. I built it for a competition on LUGPol (polish AFOL forum). The idea was to build a truck based on 42043 set.

It has been my first model built for a competition, so there was a lot to learn.

I was inspired by a small truck that I found in my children's toys.

There were a couple of weeks to build it and the design changed quite a few times. I was planning a car transporter for 5 cars with lowering upper deck. At first it was going to have a single axle at the back with double wheels, but later on it got extended. I experimented with raising 3^rd axle, but due to lower decking being as low as possible, the limited movement I would get with the wheels, I decided to leave it.

At the early stages I was planning all yellow cabin. Yellow bricks being so popular I thought I would easily find all the pieces. How wrong was I. I could not believe panels 21 and 22 just do not exist in yellow. That's why I went for yellow-red cabin.

I am not a very experienced builder so technically it is not very sophisticated. I just wanted it to work, although I know lots of the mechanisms can be improved.

I would like to thank my son for helping me with pictures and videos.

length 62cm 78 studs

width 16 cm 20 studs

height 25cm 32 studs

2 x IR

1x Bbox

Drive PF XL

Steering Servo

Upper deck rear part pneumatic cylinder with a switch and a manual pump

Front deck supports PF L

Opening doors, tilted cabin