Maaboo the Witch

I like it as well, but it does have some glaring flaws.

It's a portable power unit; let's just leave it there.

Before we do just that, this is the bucket that should have been used.

No, it's definitely two buckets.

Nice to see this part making a reappearance in the EC230!

You can see the division very faintly if you look closely, and the gap between the two is noticeable where both buckets curve.

Nope, it's definitely two.

As aforementioned, I'm okay with the boom, but the double bucket is a hard pill to swallow. It's just plain lazy.

"The PU500 is a trailer-mounted, diesel engine driven, prime power generator unit". So, it's perfectly accurate to describe it as a generator.

The official term is mobile charger, or power unit.

It's a generator.

I think they're definitely stickered.

The whole bloody thing looks better than the final product!

This set has way more parts.

The only rationale for removing the railings that I can think of involves access to the switches. But even then, it's too much of a tradeoff.

And it has the correct amount of railings! What happened?

This set is 50% hit, 50% miss. Bit of a letdown for the biggest Volvo set yet.

"Absolutely bloody hideous!"

It's in the September 2023 issue of Earthmovers magazine and not available online, sadly. But here's an online article with an image that shows what I'm talking about. Note the railings.

Having pored over a six-page article on the EC230, I can see that several railings on the set version are missing because the rear section is too short. The tracks are also shorter than those on the real thing. It's a shame, because otherwise it's pretty accurate. I also reckon it'll scale well with the EW160E, since the EC230 is smaller.

Box rox.

Really? Brickcatch says that 42175 is a June set.

I think they're August releases.

It's an incredibly hacky solution, and one that could have easily been avoided.