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I made a nice discovery on BL - tan doors 1 x 3 x 1. Here's just a few shots to show a SUV I made before but now updated with those new doors. Comments are welcome.

UPDATE.. New pictures added just below the "old" This is an almost finished WIP - a Volvo front loader with "hydraulics" functions for bucket and liftarms so that it can be positioned in any angle with full support and able to carry a decent "load". I am still waiting for some parts from BL, that I think will improve the general look a bit. Still, it would be nice to get your comments and/or creative proposals to what I've achieved so far. Hereunder a few new shots. I changed a few things and added new lights front and rear + rear mirrors. Please say what you think, did it became better...or...did I add too many details ?

Thanks everyone, for your kind comments. I only use Lego original items. Chrome fuel tanks are Lego ref 45408, Vehicle, Gas Tank 2 x 4 with Two Pins. They are quite rare and only appeared in two (ugly) 4 Juniors set back in 2003. I bought 2x ref 4652 just to get my hands on these tanks.....

Congrats to a really nice design !! Well done.

The story behind the truck: Dkgreen is one of my favorite lego colors, so it was an easy choice for this new Mercedes MOC truck with crane. Also I think tan (and dktan) goes nicely together with dkgreen to form a nice looking combination. Crane design as seen by user Fistach, but here modofied and assembled between cab and tipper, as most Swedish trucks of this type have. Besides control sticks you find, on each side, crane supports that can be put in an upright position when not used. Mudguard flaps front and rear. Chrome fuel tanks. Red chassis. Tipper with sides of hinge train doors, and assembled on a plate so the tipper can be raised with the help of an old hinge plate 2x9. Pictures follows hereafter. All comments are welcome.

Nice details and sticker job, Holodoc. I would make the truck front more "square" and skip the cheese pieces. But that's just a matter of personla taste. It's still a great build !

Great build. It does look like he engine Reinhard "Ben" Beneke built a few years ago. Nevertheless a really good looking engine.

Thanks for positive feedback, blueandwhite. I have made several trial acc to your proposal (several others also suggested a similar modification). It's possible to make a "beautiful" and smooth ramp, when facing outwards (in upright position)...but.... at the same time some unexpected problems occured. 1) Weight. Making the ramp otherway around as suggested, results in using more plates and tiles, => adding too much weight, which the current "mechanism" cannot support.... 2) Geometrical. Plate, Modified 1 x 2 with Handle on Side (Lego ref 2540)is not fully symmetrical. This has an impact in the horizontal distance between ramp and rear parts of truck. Meaning the "gap" is either too small (ramp not possible to close) or too big (looks ugly, and adds even more "torque" on the mechanism => making the ramp not possible to maintain in an upright position. I tried several work-arounds, without any success. => As it is now, provided keeping the exisiting mechanism, I cannot change the ramp. Any new ideas or porposals are welcome.

Nice to see designs with added functionality. Also it has a good resemblance to the truck IRL. Well done.

Thanks, Belchher ! This is what you'll find:

Have patience with me...I made another Mercedes truck..... and as company to make the picture more interesting, I included my Volvo excavator (presented on the forum before). Any comments are welcome, as always.

It seems June is the cow's month :-) Besides posting my new Mercedes cow transporter, I updated my 6-wide Scania Milk tanker. It's transporting fresh milk for ARLA, one the biggest companies up in Scandinavia. Whole tanker is brick-built with curved slopes. (the earlier version had Wiking wheels forming the tanker) Any comments are welcome.

Judging from the positive comments, it seems my 6-wide Mercedes truck design was OK. So I made two more, since MOC:s may look btter presented in multiples. Also I made a small adjustment of the front light arrangement. Hope you can give some feedback !

Absolutely amazing collection you've built Cooper !!! So well-balanced proportions and realistic colour-schemes, I really appreciate you're avoiding the classic bright Lego colours, and instead use tan, dark red, dark green etc which adds so much more realism to my point of view. I just wonder (as always when seeing those long coaches) how they manage points and turns ? Very well done.

This is my latest MOC truck, it is a 6 Wide Mercedes truck inspired by their Actros-series. It features a red chassis and a light bluish gray "transporter box", 17 studs long. Black sidemirrors and two Chrome fuel tanks and exhaust pipe. Rear loading ramp is fully functional and have "slip-free" stairs to securly let in the cows. The black grille of Mercedes truck is built up-side-down and connected to the plates below with a technic plate 1x4 which reverses the direction of studs. Also I made my own small Mercedes logotype as an adhesive and put in black grille. And last, SORRY, but I have no Lego cows....I know that would have added more "realism" to pictures ! Any comments are welcome.

Really nice modifications on locomotive and a beautifully designed waggon, you have done a marvelous job !!!

Lovely piece of work so far. I admired both exterior and the detailed interiour with all tiles as "LT" already mentioned. It'll be very exciting to see more of this project as you progress further.

Really nice build Carl ! What is the partnumber for those brown tubes used for "X-design".

I already displayed this MOC, a T44 locomotive, on the forum before, but today I took a new photo that I just wanted to share with you trainheads

This is a classical Swedish Volvo F88 truck from late 60:s, with colours and decals from transport company ASG. In Sweden trucks are allowed to be totally 24meters long, and my MOC is around 30% longer than my semitrailers, so it's more or less to scale compared to those. Volvo grille is inspired by other work I have seen before somewhere....(sorry guys, but don't remember who to give credit for that ).... I created a little warehouse environment for the shooting. Here's an original Volvo F88 as comparaison. Any comments are welcome.

Agree, it should by 5 vents on the side as the original prototype has, but I wanted to limit the overall lenght. My version is approx 32 studs long, so Klodsfest version must be approx 36studs.....

When browsing some of the recent posts, I noticed that a member of Danish Byggepladen has made a BR 103 locomotive very similar to my design. It was apparantly displayed recently during Klodsfest 2010. It was so nice to see someone appreciating my MOC Except, I think the Danish builder made a design better looking than mine

Great layout ! And your wife seems to be equally interested, that's amazing

I think you have achieved a nice design for this hopper. Nice colourscheme ! It looks realistic to me.

Lego locomotive designs by James Mathis actually got me back to this hobby again after my dark ages..... I made this DB class 111 a few years ago, and the last days I changed the colour scheme to be near those in James original design. As a small tribute to a great lego train designer. (I only wish Lego could release new sets similar to the Santa Fé series locomotive and wagons.) Above, my modest attempt. Above original design by James Mathis, from his Brickshelf library. And last a shot of the locomotive IRL.