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Hey all, For the past few weeks I have been working on my latest project, a 10x6 Foden S108 R4 tractor unit with a truck mounted crane. I am about 70% of the way through and thought that it was about time that I released this project to the world. After having been given a request to build a truck with a crane on it so I thought I might as well go all out As the title implies it is a five axle beastie with the three rear axles driven by two L motors mounted on either side of the chassis and the two front axles steering through a servo motor. As the images show the truck has the chassis built, the rear stabilisers and the forward mounted crane attached, with the crane being a modified version of the 8258's crane, with two M motors mounted in it for movement which will be controlled from a control panel on the left side of the truck. Although the truck is already quite heavy without the cab attached, the hard coupled L motors appear to be able to drive the truck at a pretty decent speed with a reasonable amount of torque backing it up. The one main issue that I have found so far is that the crane, when fully extended, can only reach to the rear of the truck which is a bit of a pain with this being a tractor unit. This Flickr album I found by Hilifta/Mike Cornwall has images of what I am attempting to recreate. NOTE: Don't expect my MOC to have the same colour scheme as those in the reference images due to the limitations of the colours of my parts collection Enough of the rambling on about it, time to give you some idea of how it looks: Then of course, we have the all important bottom shots Things that I still have to complete are the front stabilisers, motorising the stabilisers to make them RC controllable, finish the rear bodywork and build the cab. I will hopefully have more photos to share with you soon, all advice and and comments are appreciated. As always more photos of this build and many of my others can be found on my Bricksafe: http://bricksafe.com/pages/Kiwi_Builder/Technic Cheers