NXT_Liftboy's Liebherr T 282 B Mining Truck

[DLuders]

NXT_Liftboy and Technomoves created this "LEGO Mining Truck after the enormous Liebherr T 282 B, build APART from the bucket, from sets 4958 "dinosaur" and 8297 "off-roader", and with remote-controlled driving!" On MOCPages, NXT_Liftboy posted many pictures and detailed description of the MOC. The YouTube video is well done, with a Minifig climbing up to the driver's cab!

"The Liebherr T 282 B is the biggest commercial mining truck we know of. We downloaded the specification from Liebherr and studied it. Then we printed the side- front- and rear-views enlarged such that the printout was 1:1 for the model, the scale being determined by the offroader wheels, and about 1:50."

"Taking the scale into account our MOC performs more or less like the real thing: the MOC weighs very close to two kilograms, and can bear another two kilograms [4.4 pounds] load relatively easy, and lift and dump it too! It can still drive around with three kilograms [6.6 pounds] load, but dumping that fails, depending on the distribution of the load. This matches with the say 250 tons weight of the real one and a payload 350 to 400 ton. Moreover, the scale we build it is 1:50 for length, so 1:2500 for surface, so 1:125000 for cubical measures, like weights should be. Hence the model weighing 2 kilograms corresponds precisely to 250 tons in reality!"

[Paul B Technic]

That looks really good, excellent features on it and looks to be well built.

Paul