Two new minifig scale trucks

[Ralph_S]

in recent weeks I've been very buys building minifig scale things and I posted some of these in another thread a few week ago. Since then I've been building a few more. They're all scaled to fit with most of the trucks in the current city sets. The cabs are six studs wide, but the trailers are 7 studs wide (excluding small bits that stick out a bit further).

The first is a typical European long haul truck:

The second is a car carrier :

The final pictures shows the two together with my British fire engine.

All of these as well as all my other minifig scale stuff can be found in my minifig scale set on flickr.

I hope you like them.

Cheers,

Ralph

[Captain Green Hair]

Nice work Ralph, especially the car hauler in 6 wide is stunning!

[Ralph_S]

Nice work Ralph, especially the car hauler in 6 wide is stunning!

Thanks. The part that actually carries the cars is 7 studs wide, BTW. The cars are five studs wide, so six wide wouldn't have been wide enough. Also, most of the LEGO city trucks are technically 7 studs wide if you include the mudguards that stick out on either side.

Cheers,

Ralph

Edited July 4, 2008 by Ralph_S

[Lt. Col. Thok]

Very nice! I like the car carrier the best.

[Turaga of Force]

Very nice--I really like the trucks themselves, the trailers are good too though. And 6-wide! Wonderful! Very well built car carrier too.

[Ralph_S]

Very nice--I really like the trucks themselves, the trailers are good too though. And 6-wide! Wonderful! Very well built car carrier too.

7-wide actually, but never mind. Thanks guys. I'm glad you like them. I'm happy with the car carrier, but like the look of the long haul truck a bit better myself. Must be the colours.

Cheers,

Ralph

[Lasse D]

The Euro truck is really nice with cool little details that you might miss at first glance (mud guards, doors and such), but the complex car hauler really outshines it - each car could carry its own thread!

[Ralph_S]

The Euro truck is really nice with cool little details that you might miss at first glance (mud guards, doors and such), but the complex car hauler really outshines it - each car could carry its own thread!

Thanks Lasse. I know you're no slouch when it comes to truck-building, so I really appreciate it. The cab on the car carrier is a bit plain, but I can imagine that the sight of seven cars on a truck can be considered impressive. My inspiration came in part from the wonderful American car carrier built by Pierre Normandin, but since my cars are a bit bigger I managed to give them a little more detail. I also decided to go for a European truck and those tend to be rather different.

Cheers,

Ralph

[Basiliscus]

Nice work mate! The truck is cool but the car-carrier is my favourite! I really like the studs-showing cars - they stand out in a world of studless creations (not that there's anything wrong with studless).

[Ralph_S]

Nice work mate! The truck is cool but the car-carrier is my favourite! I really like the studs-showing cars - they stand out in a world of studless creations (not that there's anything wrong with studless).

Thanks. There's nothing wrong with studless, but I myself don't mind studs showing, so I can't be bothered to do something about them. It's good to know that somebody appreciates my lack of effort

Cheers,

Ralph

[MatthewUSA]

I am very impressed with your MOC's. I would definitly say you do excellent work . I also model my vehicles in 6-wide, but I use a scale of 1/54.54. I created this scale based on the "Trains" dimensions. What I mean is to make my locomotives & cars look proportionate with the track, the scale I use was born. My trains are 8-wide, so my vehicles became 6-wide to compare with the size.

Well anyway, AWESOME JOB!!

Model On!!

[Ralph_S]

I am very impressed with your MOC's. I would definitly say you do excellent work . I also model my vehicles in 6-wide, but I use a scale of 1/54.54. I created this scale based on the "Trains" dimensions. What I mean is to make my locomotives & cars look proportionate with the track, the scale I use was born. My trains are 8-wide, so my vehicles became 6-wide to compare with the size.

Well anyway, AWESOME JOB!!

Model On!!

Thanks. I can see 6-wide cars working too. As I wrote, they're based on the trucks in current city sets. I also wanted to limit their size a bit in order to be able to use them in city scenes such as those we do with the Brickish association, with pedestrians and cyclists etc.

I actually just came back from a display we did in Hampshire (in a disused Victorian water pumping station that's now a volunteer-run museum -hence the rustic surroundings).

One of us is getting his math wrong though, because mine are 1/45, and if yours are 1/54.54, my vehicles would actually end up being bigger than yours.

Cheers,

Ralph

[Eilif]

Nice cityscape, and great car hauler. Trucks like yours make me wish the roads in my town were larger so I could justify wider and longer vehicles. Are there more pictures of the individual cars available?

[Ralph_S]

Nice cityscape, and great car hauler. Trucks like yours make me wish the roads in my town were larger so I could justify wider and longer vehicles. Are there more pictures of the individual cars available?

I haven't made many pictures of individual cars because I don't think that MOCs that small are really worth it. You'll find all of them in my minifig scale set on flickr. I've also taken a series of pictures showing close-ups and some of the cars partially dismantled to show how they're made.

Cheers,

Ralph

[Dennimator]

PLEEEEEASE can you make instructions or something for the front of the red bus? I´ve been trying to build it many times but I failed every time!