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Even before I built my Scania recovery truck a few months ago, I'd been thinking about building more European trucks. Being a Dutchman, a DAF was near the top of my list (DAFs are made in Eindhoven, in the Netherlands). My truck represents a DAF XF105, the current top of the range for this manufacturer.

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DAF XF105 (1) by Mad physicist, on Flickr

My truck is closely based on a real truck used by a Dutch company called Van der Veld. I'd been searching for an interesting colour scheme for a DAF for a while when I came across this one. The cab is built using LEGO dark red and dark tan. This shot also shows the refrigeration unit built into the front of the container

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DAF XF105 (2) by Mad physicist, on Flickr

Containers often have corrugated sides. Refrigerated containers also don't have flat sides, but the profiling usually isn't as strong. I did feel that it was important to do something to the sides of my model to break up the flatness of it all. I'm not completely happy with how the 7-pointed star in the MAERSK logo turned out. It's not quite pointy enough and should be a bit bigger, but at least all the cheese slopes are properly connected (most of the white ones are two studs wide and connected behind the logo).

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DAF XF105 (3) by Mad physicist, on Flickr

The stripes on the tractor unit were a bit of a puzzle, but not the hardest part by far. That honour is reserved for the arrangement of the radiator grille, the headlights and the lower parts of the doors. It may not be immediately obvious, but I used a lot of parts mounted on their sides or vertically and a lot of half-stud offsets.

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DAF XF105 (5) by Mad physicist, on Flickr

The truck has a number of working features. The doors on the cab and container open and the tilt cab can actually tilt, but the battery on my camera ran out before I could take pictures of that. The container sits on a separate chassis, which is designed to carry different lengths of container and consequently can be changed in length. I'll get back to taking more pictures two weeks from now, when I am again temporarily re-united with my LEGO collection.

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An excellent MOC, Ralph_S! :thumbup:

The truck is incredibly accurate and realistic. I also particularly like the dark red colour scheme, it suites the truck well. The container is very accurate too, especially the refridgerator unit on the front of it.

Extremely well done. :classic:

~buddy~

Ralph_S

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Thanks guys. I looked at a lot of different colour combinations, but to me this seemed one of the nicest and, also important, one that I reckoned I could make look good in LEGO too. Both dark red and dark tan seem to be colours that are mainly available in the form of small plates. I certainly mainly have small plates of either in my collection, so it wasn't much of an issue that the stripy pattern would require lots of those.

I put a lot of effort into the container. It wouldn't have been hard to build a white box. Even the lettering was fairly easy. With the exception of the `M' they're all old-fashioned studs up building. However, I felt the profiling was very important for the overall look.

Cheers,

Ralph

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Very nice model, true to the original, and the color scheme is a very nice one as well

Thank you. There are a few things I couldn't manage (cheese slopes don't exist in dark tan), but I tried to stick close to the original. I also couldn't make the mudguards on the trailer the way I wanted to. Instead of a separate mudguard for each of the three wheels I had to combine them into a single large one.

One word: WOW!

That's an amazingly beautiful MOC. Loads of cheese slopes there for the cabin.

Is it heavy?

I have seriously dented my supply of dark red cheese slopes for this one, indeed. The container is quite heavy, but the truck itself is reasonably light. It is hard to compare it to the last truck I built, because that had Power Functions in it and consequently feels a lot heavier.

Cheers,

Ralph

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Beautiful truck! Love the attention you've paid to the livery. Did you motorize anything?

Hi Jantjeuh (a fellow Dutchman I presume?). I was apparently writing my reply when you posted, so I'm replying to your message separately.

This one isn't motorised. I had a lot of fun building the Scania recovery truck (which is motorized), but one of my minor frustrations with it was that the mechanical bits and motors took up so much space inside and under the cab that I couldn't give it a working tilting cab and a representation of an engine. I love doing that sort of stuff, so when I started the DAF I decided that I did want a tilting cab on that. I didn't have the opportunity (yet) to take photographs of it though.

Cheers,

Ralph

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Love the use of the hinges for the curved edge of the wheel arches on the front end of the cab. Genius!

Oh yeah, and the rest is great too. You just need to do a proper Swedish truck as well now!

Cheers

Rog

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Thanks for all the comments guys. I'm not going to respond to all of them individually, but I do appreciate them.

@ Ralph S:

Dude! Great work!

Hopefully you will be showing this model at LFW?

(Or anywhere in the Netherlands soon?)

I'd love to come to LFW, but unfortunately I can't. I do intend to keep this model together for a while and if I have the opportunity to come to a LEGO event (either through de Bouwsteen or LOWLug) I think this is a model worth taking. I took my Dutch ambulance to a meeting of De Bouwsteen earlier this year and it seemed to go down well.

Love the use of the hinges for the curved edge of the wheel arches on the front end of the cab. Genius!

Oh yeah, and the rest is great too. You just need to do a proper Swedish truck as well now!

Cheers

Rog

Thanks Rog. I'm not sure what you mean by a proper Swedish truck. I already have a Scania. Are you thinking of a Volvo?

The front lower part of the cab was probably the most challenging bit to build on this project, and the mudguard was one of the bits that made it difficult. On the real truck it is a nice curve and the door has a matching curve that lines up with it, which pretty much ruled out being able to use a standard curved brick to do it (provided any of them even come in light bley). I also wanted to make the door such that I could open it, which ruled out any construction in which parts of the mudguard were attached to the door. I toyed with a number of different ideas in my mind, but couldn't figure out how to do it at first.

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US Army LMTV (1) by Mad physicist, on Flickr

Sometimes a solution to a problem is staring you in the face and you don't realise it. It is actually something I did before.

I obviously still had to work out how to make the matching curve in the door, but I had already thought of using a combination of cheese slopes and some SNOT work to do that and it came together really quickly. I have to admit though that I was a bit surprised at quite how well the flat parts of the hinge bricks line up with the slopes.

Cheers,

Ralph

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Thanks Rog. I'm not sure what you mean by a proper Swedish truck. I already have a Scania. Are you thinking of a Volvo?

Exactly what I mean! A FH16 would look great in that scale!

Cheers

Rog

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Exactly what I mean! A FH16 would look great in that scale!

Cheers

Rog

Interesting suggestion. It's not really a truck I considered. I built the Scania quite simply because the recovery truck I liked happened to be one (it could have been something else) and I chose a DAF because it is Dutch, I am Dutch and it goes well with me already having built a collection of other Dutch vehicles.

For the first time in a long while I don't have any concrete plans for what I'll build next. I have done some work on the cab for a second Scania, but I'm not sure I'll finish it. I've also got plenty of other ideas, but little time and opportunity to do any of them. They're all properly big things. I will keep an eye out for FH16s with nice paint schemes :thumbup:

Cheers,

Ralph

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For the first time in a long while I don't have any concrete plans for what I'll build next.

The answer is in your question. A concrete truck. A tapered, cylindrical, angled, rotating drum should be a challenge!

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The answer is in your question. A concrete truck. A tapered, cylindrical, angled, rotating drum should be a challenge!

Funny that you should mention that. Here's something I wrote on flickr just yesterday

"However, right now I have very few concrete plans on what to build next. I have plenty of ideas, but little opportunity. I have started working on a second Scania. It won't be a wrecker truck, but I haven't quite decided what it will be instead. Perhaps a tipper truck or cement mixer. I reckon that would look good on this scale. "

It would be a challenge, indeed. I reckon the biggest difficulty isn't the shape, but the fact that it can rotate and is open on one end, which precludes using a central axle for the rotation. Interesting.

Cheers,

Ralph

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I've been thinking over the weekend and haven't made up my mind yet. Rather than a concrete truck or cement mixer, I'm thinking of a car transporter. I used to have a model of an American one until a few years ago when I took it apart to use the old dark grey for military builds.

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I kind of miss it.

Of course, now I'd opt for a European one.

Something like this

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Cheers,

Ralph

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