mbmc137's Caterpillar 385C L Excavator

[DLuders]

In his Brickshelf gallery, Hungarian AFOL "mbmc137"/ 1hengeresVmotor posted many pictures of his 1:24 Scale Caterpillar 385C L Excavator. He wrote that it is "My first really large excavator, model of the Caterpilar 385 CL....Fully functional and remote, weighs 2560g. More than 80 [cm] long, 2097 parts were used. Questions, comments to kopaszkis@freemail.hu ." It uses both Lego Power Functions and Pneumatic elements, and took about a week to build. There are four videos of this MOC that show it in action:

Part 1:

(Driving and Offroad)

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=japFY8yzojY (Digging and Moving the Arm)

Part 3:

(Digging from Hill)

Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie_uyqrO_24 (Digging 3 Times)

Edited September 28, 2010 by DLuders

[prateek]

That's awesome! I want to see it picking up some 1:24 scale cars!

[Dryw Filtiarn]

That's one excellent model, although it's a shame it uses a Linear actuator to move the bucket. Lego should really start producing yellow motors and LA's ;)

[Paul B Technic]

That is simply outstanding, well designed and built. It looks the part and appears to work well.

Paul