Ngoc Nguyen

Given that there's gonna be a new City backhoe in the same scale, I'm so tempted to go back on this and give it the new tyres. I'm not sure if that bucket is new or the old one from 42121. If it's new I'd give the model the new bucket too. Currently the model uses a custom built bucket, which I'm not exactly happy about, but I'm not sure if there's any other choice. The 42121 bucket is too big for it. Here's how it looks with it.

It's a mini 42030!

Hi everyone, these are the sets that didn't get the chance to be reviewed properly in 2025 from RacingBrick

Did you just make this up? These machines don't exist.

So the car-ification of Technic is now complete.

I'll make this a challenge to myself and will try to do this version. It will be very hard, but that's what makes this fun! I'm also expecting the 42242 to be in the same arrangement. https://special.mercedes-benz-trucks.com/fileadmin/user_upload/Images/Special_Trucks/Themen/Messen-Events/Unimog-Tour/Exponatesteckbriefe/Exponatesteckbrief_U5023_Kran.pdf

The side knob controls the linked differential locks. The chassis is taken directly from my mini 42129, which looks like this. Speaking of which, that's the problem I'm facing at the moment. I havent decided about what to put in the back. I'm not really fond of a crane since I've done a number of crane trucks already. I was wondering if I can ask for some suggestions from you perhaps.

Putting a knuckleboom in the middle of the Unimog didnt turn out so well...

Til you get a Zetros that has the same price as the premium 1:8 Porsche...

Am I the only one who feels a very great sense of irony in the fact that cool construction vehicles get to appear in City while Technic, well you know what I mean.

What flaw might that be?

Part of me wants the new Unimog to have a knuckle boom crane in the middle of the body, because the last Technic set with a knuckle boom crane was released in 2009. The other part me dreads the prospect of replicating it on this scale. Not to mention the outriggers.

Positive as people may feel about the original Unimog 8110, I'm not really fond of it. I bought it in 2019, so my expectations were shaped by modern Technic, and by that the 8110 just failed to live up to.

I suppose the 42242 would go for a midbody crane to make it different from the old 8011.

My guess is that it'd be a 42129 reskin (because mine is also one ).