MOC : 'European' Longnose 6x4 prime mover

[Out of Sight]

Hello again guys, this is my current "LDD project turns reality". I'm building a heavy hauler which comsists of four seperate main parts : prime mover, low loader trailer, the load, and the escort vehicle. I'd only finished building the prime mover, so I thought I would share this.

As the title says "European" longnose prime mover in the European heavy haulage scenes. The design is inspired by one of the very last longnose design in the European trucking industry, the ever popular Scania T-Series, which is sadly had been discontinued recently by Scania due to restricting truck length regulations. If you don't know what a Scania T-Series is, here's some pics of the real thing. The T-series has a distinctive full width stubby nose, as opposed to American longnose which narrows towards the front. See the Lego 3221 for an example of "American" longnose prime mover.

As I said earlier, the design is inspired..I'm not trying to make it an exact Scania replica due to brick limitations. I opt for a 3180 style 'fifth wheel', and made the 3180 as a standard for my MOC prime mover.

So here are the design concept pics in "El Dee Dee" (hmm sounds like a Spanish fighting bull..) and pics of it in real bricks

This prime mover dwarfs the one from the 3180 a bit. The colors are red and white with some stripes. The truck consists of around 170 parts, and is very solidly build, I was actually surprised of how heavy it turned out.

The cab is the popular six wide wedge plate roof, with an added height of 2 plates to mimic the sleeper cab, with an added deflector. There are no visible smoke stacks because these Euro trucks usually run a 'discreet' exhaust behind the sideskirts..yea right discreet ..ever heard the loud noise emited from a straight piped Scania V8 chugging 60 tonnes GCW up a gradient? Unlike some Euro prime movers which run a single rear axle, this has double. I want to build a typical 6x4 UK based company prime mover, which typically has twin rear axles to comply with the axle load regulations, hence the right offset steering wheel. I went with the usual binocular air horns..

Thanks for looking guys.

Edited April 2, 2011 by Out of Sight

[gcanik]

So simple in design, yet a very effective MOC. I just dont know about the wheels and there size in relation to being a truck cab and heavy hauler, but that is my big concern with Lego and the use of the mudguard, there just isnt a good larger wheel size to use. Nicely done with the colors too!

[Fuzzylegobricks]

Wonderful Moc out of sight! You built a very god replica, the first picture looks more like the model to me though than the second. What kind of vehicle is the escort one? And what kind is the load going to be?

Keep on this!

[Out of Sight]

@gcanik

I thing that's the unique characteristic of any City vehicles. They are slightly cartoonish in proportion like a too small of a wheel and tire..then again that's what makes Lego unique in its on way.

@Fuzzylegobricks

The escort vehicles will be minivan type, just like in Europe where they use Ford Transits and the likes with huge chevron pattern across the back, when I say huge, I mean huge, entirely covering the back. The load will be construction machines, most likely one of the 2009 City construction set

[buddy]

Great MOC! It looks like the real thing. The design is simple yet effective.

Very well done.

~buddy~

[city boy]

Nice work. .The model looks more like the first one.

[lightningtiger]

'out of sight' that is OUT OF SIGHT - man, what a prime mover, excellent designing and colour selection......a trailer for it to pull ?

Dam AWESOME work there and just Brick On 'out of sight' !

[dr_spock]

Nice interpretation of the Scania T-series in Lego.

[XimenaPaulina]

I really like the simplistic but very effective design of this truck. I initially thought the long-nose was a bit short, but after looking at the reference images I must say it's pretty spot-on. The colors are very well done too. Good work!