This is a Liebherr LTM mobile crane, and it shows that sometimes small-scale building isn’t actually small at all.
Built by Flickr’s Keko007, this Liebherr can get really very large indeed, thanks to a three stage elevating boom with a working winch. There’s also four-axle steering, functional outriggers, and a tilting control cab, and you see lots more of Keko’s surprisingly large erection at his ‘Liebherr LTM 1230-5’ album via the link above.
It’s an alternative day here at TLCB, as we’re back B-Modelling. This excellent skid-steer loader is our alternate of choice, being constructed only from the parts found within the Technic 42082 Rough Terrain Crane and retaining the donor set’s focus on motorised functionality.
A gearbox enables power to go to the boom elevation, bucket tilt, or drive, although not all at once. Which means you can chase a TLCB Elf down the office corridor but not simultaneously scoop it up. Not that we’ve tried…
Anyway, building instructions are available and you can see more of this neat 42082 B-Model courtesy of paave at the Eurobricks forum.
We’ve featured a lot of Unimogs over the years here at The Lego Car Blog. Some of which are very big, very detailed, and packed with working features. Today’s is very small, very detailed, and packed with working features.
Built by Flickr’s Reddish Blue, this Unimog U5023 isn’t reddish-blue at all, being rather yellow, and has got as much going on as models ten times its size. There’s working steering and suspension, three drop-sides, working stabiliser legs, and an incredible posable Palfinger crane complete with a functional winch.
An astonishing amount of visual detail joins this wealth of functionality, and is all the more impressive given the model is barely 8-studs wide.
Exquisitely presented, there’s a huge amount more of Reddish Blue’s phenomenally rendered creation to see at his ‘Mercedes-Benz Unimog U 5023’ album, where links to building instructions can also be found. Take a look via the link above at the best small-scale ‘mog you’re likely to see this year.
Ford Bronco owners like to think that by driving their boxy SUV people will think they’re outdoorsy farming types, rather than Jeff from Marketing. But they’re fooling no-one. However Flickr’s M_longer can help! Because this splendid telehandler – complete with working arm elevation and extension, deployable stabilisers, spring operated forks, all-wheel steering, and an inline piston engine – is constructed solely from the parts of the official 42213 Technic Ford Bronco set. No-one’s gonna think you work in marketing driving this! Switch up your Bronco for a real farm machine courtesy of M_longer via the link above, where building instructions for this brilliant Bronco B-Model can also be found.
No we’re not talking about the utter scumbags who tip their trash on the side of the road, but – today – all of us, because this lovely mini dump truck can be built for free, courtesy of previous bloggee Thirdwigg.
It features working steering, a mechanically raising tipper, opening doors and dropsides, plus those free building instructions (a hundred TLCB Points to Thirdwigg), and you can dump for free on Flickr via the link above.
Are cranes required in space? There’s no gravity… We’re a car blog so we won’t think about that too deeply and instead revel in the deep coolness of Ivan Martynov‘s ‘RS11200 Space Craft Type’. Lift something science-fictiony via the link above!
Neither boxing, 1940s jazz music, nor keys-in-a-bowl, today’s creation is this excellent – and rather unusual – swingloader.
Constructed by TLCB Master MOCer thirdwigg, this mini front-loader can pivot its bucket arm to allow it to more easily off-load the contents, with its manoeuvrability further aided by all-wheel steering.
The bucket swing, elevation, tilt, and that all-wheel-steering are all mechanically operated, and you can get into the swing of things at thirdwigg’s ‘Swing Loader and Dumper’ album on Flickr. Click the link above to go swingin’.
This is a Sennebogen 608 telehandler, which is used to lift things and people to and from high places. And its maker Ralph Savelsberg has absolutely missed a Christmas trick by not building a Christmas tree for it to place a star atop. Still, despite the festive omission it is a brilliant build, and includes interchangeable attachments on the extending and elevating boom, deployable stabiliser legs, and some excellent replica decals. You can reach for more images at Ralph’s photostream, where you can take a look at it not placing a star atop a Christmas tree via the link above.
This is a Casagrande C400XP2 hydraulic crawler, a machine built to, um… hydraulically crawl. OK, full disclosure, we don’t really know what it’s for, but it looks the business.
Powered by nine motors, this remarkable Technic replica of the C400XP2 comes from Aleh, and features subtractor tracked drive, a rotating superstructure, a multi-stage winch and boom, and a motorised 6-cylinder engine.
Even cleverer, all nine motors (even those driving the tracks) are fitted within the rotating superstructure, and with internal renders and building instructions available you can find out how it’s done.
There’s much more to see at Aleh’s Bricksafe folder and via the Eurobricks forum, and you can hydraulically crawl you way there via the links above.
Today’s creation is large, heavy, ponderous, and there are dirty pictures of it on the internet. No it’s not your Mom for once, but this splendid camouflaged bulldozer by Dwelve, who’s photographed it not on a clean white background (although that is still the recommended norm), but rather getting dirty in the forest. Which is where it should be of course. Dwelve has constructed the ‘dozer for third-party set shop Brickmania, there’s more of the model to see on Flickr, and you can see all the dirty photos via the link above.
It’s a TLCB double today, with a duo of top-notch pieces of construction equipment, each wonderfully detailed, and affording us some ‘Your Mom’ references too.
First up (above) is Ralph Savelsberg‘s fantastic Caterpillar D9T bulldozer. Born in the mid-’50s, the D9 has serviced more construction sites than any other competitor, thanks to its weight, size, and low operating costs. Just like your Mom. Ralph’s Lego version captures the heavy tracked tractor brilliantly in brick, and you can bulldoze your way to it via the link above.
Today’s second constructional creation (below) is Keko007‘s excellent JCB 531-70 telehandler, complete with more varied implements than your Mom’s ‘special chest’. A raising and extending boom means that the model can replicate the reach of the real JCB 531, and you can reach for it yourself at Keko’s photostream via the link above.
You don’t need a million LEGO bricks to be blogged. Because clever parts usage and imaginative presentation can go a very a long way, as proven by Bobofrutx and this splendid little backhoe. Pictured on some gnarly pavement, Bobo’s backhoe can raise its bucket, extend and rotate its rear arm, and deploy its stabilisers just like the real thing, and you can head to a road in need of repair via the link above.
Longstanding readers of The Lego Car Blog will know that our workforce of mythical Elves have a penchant for extreme violence, which is normally manifested by squashing one-another with the vehicles they find.
Constructed by previous bloggee Keko007, this Hamm 3412 HT road-roller looks perfect for that task. However despite Keko’s creation being hyper realistic it’s actually rather smaller than it first appears, thus there’s no remote control motorisation going on here. Hooray! There’s more of the model to see on Flickr, including a wider set of construction vehicles that accompanies it, and you can roll on over via the link above.
And if you’re disappointed that there’s no Elven squishery today; firstly you don’t have tidy up afterwards, but this ought to satisfy your own penchant for extreme violence with a steam roller…
So prolific are JCBs in TLCB’s home nation that the word ‘digger’ and the acronym ‘JCB’ are used almost interchangeably. In fact this writer remembers a LEGO catalogue from the early ’90s that referred to a Town backhoe set simply as a ‘JCB’, in the days before anyone bothered about licensing.
Cue this excellent digger that is in fact a JCB by Flickr’s keko007. A miniature replica of the brand’s 3CX backhoe, it captures the real deal superbly, including posable booms and buckets with ingeniously brick-built hydraulic cylinders. There’s more to see at keko’s ‘JCB 3CX Backhoe Loader’ album on Flickr and you can dig your way over to it via the link above.
It’s a sunny day here at TLCB Towers and the Elves are off hunting for the best Lego vehicles that the web has to offer. All except one, who we found dangling alone from the grab of a hefty remote control excavator left abandoned in the corridor. We may have laughed. A lot.
Said creation is based on an ET-25 excavator, and comes from deltamc of Eurobricks who has recreated both its visuals and operation beautifully. Constructed from around 2,000 pieces, delta’s model can drive, steer, slew, and position the two-stage boom (equipped with either a bucket or grab) via remote control, thanks to a suite of six Power Functions motors and four linear actuators.
It’s an impressive piece of Technic engineering, and one you can watch in action via the video below and create for yourself, as delta has made free building instructions available. Find out more at the Eurobricks forum via the link above.
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