MOC: Milk tanker truck

[Selander]

During the recent AFOL meeting in Sweden, one member displayed a fantastic farm building.

As an accessory, I tried to make a typical Swedish style milk tanker truck.

As always for me, design is in 6-wide.

I haven't seen anyone else using these wheels as tank elements (yet ?)

Any comments and feedback is most welcome, there is defenitely room for improvements.

Edited November 30, 2009 by Selander

[lightningtiger]

I love it !

It really looks like a Scania, fanastic.

The tanker, yeah I might try the same trick, looks genuine.

Hidden control panel at the rear - great.

The front end - very Scania, also it's half SNOT and half studed.

Now all we need is two things, a milking shed with storage vat and a milk processing plant.

Fanastic work, 'Selander'.

[Big Cam]

The method for the tank portion is brilliant. I like the controls at the back too. Very to scale, it looks good.

[Milan]

Great!

It looks like the real truck!

Tanker is also very nice, as well as controls at the back!

[BlueBard]

Great! Clever use of bricks in the cabin and, of course, in the tanker

[prateek]

Woah. I love the wheels as the tank, and the hidden controls in the back are really sleek. Great job

[Tom Bricks]

I like how you've used tiles and not grille pieces in the front for the grill. Good job with the drum too.

[ILikePi]

Clever use of the Castle wheels for the drum, and I really love the striped pattern on the front.

I love the doors that hide the controls in the back! Do you mind if I use that in the future?

[Rick]

Nice truck. Your Scania design is really good. What I don't like about the tank is the gaps in between the wheels, it just isn't smooth enough (not your fault, it's TLG to blame).

[Ras 74]

Well done Selander! Your Scania trucks is really great and accurate.

The tank of it is really nice as well. It is a cleaver use of those weels, and I like the fact that it is not all smooth.

Would be sweet if LEGO made them in Metallic Silver or even Chrome Silver.

[Rick]

It is a cleaver use of those weels, and I like the fact that it is not all smooth.

The horizontal 'stripes' makes in certainly look more realistic, I just don't like the vertical gaps when you put two or more of those wheels together. TLG could have really made them much more versatile if they thought twice while designing them for the Vikings(?) theme...

[Legostein]

Hello!

A beautiful designed truck. It's clever in so many ways. As mentioned before, you assembled the truck excellent around the tank. Frurthermore that cockpit mirror construction with the hinge bar is notably clever. And also the 2x1 curved bricks to give the tyical look for a truck of that brand. Very well done!

Cheers,

~ Christopher

[Badsneaker]

Looks fabulous as do all your trucks!

[dynamic_e]

Man, all these Scania's are giving me envy. Anyone LDD one of these trucks for those not so talented?

[Ralph_S]

It's hard to find something round that has the right diameter I suppose, but I don't like those wheels for the tank because their diameter isn't constant. It gives you ridges running along the tank that I don't think look nice at all. I'd prefer a tank built using some SNOT work with macaroni bricks or cylinder ()

However, I love the aft part with the pump control panels and the cab is great. I'm impressed that you managed to make it look recogisably like a Scania on this small scale

Cheers,

Ralph