[WIP] Vactor 2100 Series Waste Vacuum Truck

[Henchmen4Hire]

...WIP Believe it or not this is still minifig scale, the figs just look a little small because they have weird proportions.

Sometimes I see these big beefy trucks rumbling around Los Angeles, they were so mysterious and frightening until I found out they're used to suck poop out of the storm drains.

They have different combinations of equipment and models (year), all of which I don't know anything about, so I'm just picking and choosing features to implement and see what fits.

-Extended the rear wheels a bit

-Have to find a way to not make the silver tanks tilt when the main tank tilts

-Need to finish rear area under the tank (brakelights, license plate, etc)

-1X4 Trans Orange tile should clip into the empty clip here

Hopefully I find a detailed image of the area behind the cab...

Edited July 24, 2012 by DrNightmare

[EM4CZ]

in the Czech Republic we call "HOVNOCUC" (gully sucker)

Typical czech Hovnocuc Praga V3S(army 3-tons special)

text on vehicle "your shit, our joy"

http://hovnocucy.predseda.com/index_en.php

[Henchmen4Hire]

Haha! Gully Sucker is a much better name than Poop Sucker

Updated the first image, I think I got the proportions right...

I'm thinking of making this 9-wide just to torture myself

[gotoAndLego]

That looks very good so far.

[TheKingOfBuilding]

Its looking good and I can't wait to see the finished product! The only thing I would change is 1x1 gap in the door but other than that, great work

Edited February 26, 2012 by TheKingOfBuilding

[Henchmen4Hire]

Yus, filled in a few gaps, made room to build an engine under the hood too.

Addded a pic of what the tank looks like so far. I don't know how else to make a round 6x6 structure other than using those 6x6 dishes :[ Maybe with hinges but I don't want to resort to that in LDD haha

[CptMugwash]

Cool, that's a big truck for poop, we've got similar ones for our septic tanks here in the UK, they're red. I hope it doesn't have an evacuate button

Looking good size works fine for me mind you a bit big for my city, for the container have you tried those 'macaroni' pieces?

[brickmack]

Looks great so far. Interesting technique for the area around the front wheels. What part is that on the tops of the exhaust pipes?

[Henchmen4Hire]

Thanks for the suggestion Cpt., took me a second to figure out how to attach them to each other 180 degrees New pic added up there.

Those are hairdryers on the pipes :)

I've since found out that I'm going to have to make the large hose boom swivel 180 degrees left-to-right and also be telescopic

-Updated with new pictures

Edited February 27, 2012 by DrNightmare

[Henchmen4Hire]

Alrighty, I'm done tweaking it, can't really work on the boom unless I have it in real bricks because of the hoses involved.

What do you folks think, pretty cool, eh?

[alansch2002]

if you want detailed pics let me know....i build the electral systems for theses kind of trucks. we refurb and rbuild these trucks. I have one just like that in the shop with no tanks in it(tank went up and hit an overpass,fliped the tank 180 ).

[Henchmen4Hire]

That'd be fantastic! All I really need is a picture of the area right behind the cab since I can't find a tight shot of that. A shot of where the hose/boom swings left to right would be great too so I can get the shape right.

Do you work on any other cool trucks I could build?

Edited March 2, 2012 by DrNightmare

[Dakar A]

Great work, Dr. Nigthmare!

If this isn't the most unique based in real life MOC I've ever seen, I don't know what is. I love the orange/blue colour scheme, and the shaping on the tanks. The cone on the front is one of the first times ( I think) I've seen it done. Hope to see the model in physical form!

Waste reclamation on!

Dakar

[alansch2002]

That'd be fantastic! All I really need is a picture of the area right behind the cab since I can't find a tight shot of that. A shot of where the hose/boom swings left to right would be great too so I can get the shape right.

Do you work on any other cool trucks I could build?

ill get pics on monday.

we do have some other cool trucks to.....that vac truck is only a vac they make jetter vacs that have a 1000 feet of hose a huge pump and water tanks

and a custom jetter truck we made and was just in a show

Edited March 4, 2012 by alansch2002

[alansch2002]

ill get pics on monday.

we do have some other cool trucks to.....that vac truck is only a vac they make jetter vacs that have a 1000 feet of hose a huge pump and water tanks

and a custom jetter truck we made and was just in a show

[chuckie8646]

oh cool. I really like this you did a very nice job

Good Work

Charlie