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.
This strange looking device is an IFA Multicar M25, a small cab-over truck built in East Germany designed to perform numerous jobs. This one comes from previous bloggee DamianPLE (aka damjan97PL) who has fitted it with motorised drive, steering, and tipper, all controlled remotely via a third-party SBrick.
There’s also a tilting cab, under which sits a working four-cylinder piston engine, opening doors, and a detailed interior too, with more to see – including a video of the Multicar in action – at the Eurobricks forum. A gallery of over two-dozen images is also available to view on Bricksafe, and you can find both via the links above.
It’s nearly Christmas, and so TLCB is entering the season of tenuously-titled festive posts. Cue this excellent FSC Star 21 tipper truck, which probably isn’t quite as important as the star that appeared two-thousand years ago over Bethlehem, but we still like it.
Created by Flickr’s Jakeof_ it captures the 1960s Polish truck superbly, including a working tipper with an opening tailgate too, and you can follow the Star to our infant saviour in a Bethlehem stable a building site in Poland via the link above.
Anyone that’s worked in the restaurant industry likes a good tipper. Particularly in America, where in many states the minimum wage can be set below the legal amount so that tips make up the difference. Which means that they aren’t tips at all, but rather subsiding corporate greed. Sigh. Sometimes America sucks.
Still, in Europe tips are tips, paid on top of a minimum wage, and thus today we have a good European tipper; a Mercedes-Benz Arocs 4143 8×4. Constructed by regular bloggee Keko007, the Arocs is very detailed indeed considering the small scale, and it can really tip too.
There’s more to see Keko’s ‘Mercedes Arocs 4143 8×4’ Flickr album, and you can make the waitress’s day / subsidise their wages because your tip in fact goes to the owner via the link above.
It’s time for a truck here at The Lego Car Blog, because we’re not just about cars. This is a Scania Highline and Schmitz Cargobull tipper trailer, as excellently constructed by previous bloggee Keko007. Clever SNOT techniques and a functioning tipper mechanism feature and you can see more at Keko’s ‘Scania Highline 4×2 2020 & Schmitz Cargobull Tipper Semitrailer’ album via the link above.
Revealed here earlier in the year, LEGO’s 42213 Technic Ford Bronco brings the blue oval’s newest, but retro-est, 4×4 to bedroom floors everywhere. It also provides just under a thousand pieces for B-Model building, with previous bloggee damianPLE doing just that, by turning his Bronco into this excellent Technic off-road dump truck.
Like the set on which it’s based, Damian’s alternate includes working suspension, ‘HOG’ steering, and a V6 engine under an opening hood, whilst adding a manually operable tipper too. Building instructions are available and you can find all the images, plus that instructional link, at Bricksafe and Eurobricks respectively. Dump your horse via the links above!
Sometimes you don’t need a big dump, and a small one will do you just fine. Cue ER0L‘s Peterbilt dump truck, which at only 8-studs wide is indeed rather small. It kinda works though, with both a tipping dumper and sort-of-suspension on the rear wheels. Neat detailing and excellent presentation prove it doesn’t have to be big to be blogged, and you can take a small dump on Flickr via the link above.
We’re dumping double today, courtesy of regular bloggee Arian Janssens and this brilliant DAF FAS 3300 DKX in ‘Bas Van Buuren’ livery.
A huge tipping bucket is mounted behind that DAF FAS’s cab, whilst behind that a drawbar trailer is fitted with a second enormous tipper.
Both are exceptionally well detailed and presented (although we’re not sure you’d dump the load from the truck whilst the trailer was hitched…) and there’s more to see of the whole rig at Arian’s photostream. Take a look via the link whilst we congratulate ourselves on successfully avoiding a minefield of double-entendre.
It’s two days after ‘Liberation Day’, when the enormous global tariffs enacted by the Trump administration bite. And bit they are, as investors are dumping stocks at the fastest rate since 2020.
Cue today’s creation, this classic dump truck by Flickr’s JLiu15. A working piston engine resides under the opening hood, there’s remote control steering / (all-wheel) drive, and you can dump stocks faster than the Nasdaq thanks to the hefty load bed which tips pneumatically.
There’s more to see at JLiu15’s ‘Classic Dump Truck XL’ album, and you can head there to take a dump via the link above.
Humans make a lot of trash. In the United States alone, 146 million tons of waste goes into landfill every year, including two-thirds of all recyclable material. Sigh.
Strangely, considering almost 50 million people in America go hungry due to poverty, the biggest category of waste to landfill is food. This does at least bio-degrade, but produces methane in the process, a greenhouse gas twenty-eight times more potent than CO2. Sigh.
Cue today’s creation, a neat Technic garbage truck up-cycled from the 42203 Tipping Dump Truck. Constructed by Flickr’s Thirdwigg, the original set has been fitted with a piston engine, a tilting cab, and a working garbage compactor complete with hand-controlled tipper, bin loader, and compactor mechanisms.
Building instructions are available and there’s more of the build to see at Thirdwigg’s ‘LEGO 42203 Update’ album. Recycle your own Tipping Dump Truck set via the link above, along with whatever else you can. Especially food.
We love Big Red Trucks here at The Lego Car Blog, and – judging by the joyous noise emitting from the Elves riding around in the back of this one – so do our smelly little workers.
The truck in question is a Star 266M, as built (beautifully) by previous bloggee damjan97PL of Eurobricks.
Controlled by a third-party SBrick, damjan’s creation features Power Functions six-wheel-drive, Servo steering, plus working suspension and opening cab doors, revealing an excellent interior.
The feature we’re most interested in however, is the remotely operable tipping bed, which can lift half-a-kilo. It’ll have no trouble with a gaggle of TLCB Elves therefore, for whom a tray of soapy water awaits.
Whilst we give some of our workers a surprise bath, you can see more of damjan’s superb Star via the link above, where a video of the truck in action and the complete image gallery can also be found.
LEGO’s fantastic Technic 8110 Mercedes-Benz Unimog set earned a near perfect score when it was reviewed on these pages nearly a decade-and-a-half ago. Which means that today it’s rather expensive. And it’s also rather large.
But fear not readers, because you can get your hands on your own Technic Unimog courtesy of prolific ‘mog maker (and Master MOCer) Thirdwigg, which is rather more affordable, and takes up rather less space.
His latest recreation of the Mercedes-Benz multi-purpose tractor comes in at 1:21 scale, and features working steering, an inline-4 engine, a tipping bed, and opening doors. Building instructions are available so you can create it for yourself, and you can find a link to them plus all the imagery at Thridwigg’s ‘Unimog U406’ album here.
The Technic 42043 Mercedes-Benz Arocs is one of the highest rated LEGO sets of all time. Now a decade old (where did that time go?), the 2015 flagship united Power Functions and pneumatics into one of the most technically advanced sets ever released.
Today’s creation pays homage to LEGO’s original masterpiece, only rather smaller. Constructed in 1:35 scale (vs. 42043’s 1:17), TechnicMOCer‘s half-size tribute features twin-axle steering, three-axle pendular suspension, a working piston engine, tipping bed, and mechanically-operated crane and outriggers.
Building instructions are available, to which you can find a link, as well as further imagery, at the Eurobricks discussion forum. Click the link above to shrink your Arocs.
It’s New Year’s Day, and there’s already a hooker in the office. Nope, we haven’t gone ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ for 2025 (we’re still very much a ropey Lego blog rather than a stock market scam); this one is of the Lego variety, being a splendid fully mechanical Technic hook-lift truck courtesy of TLCB Master MOCer Thirdwigg.
Fitted with front and rear axle steering, a working piston engine under the tilting cab, a functioning hook-lift plus tipper mechanism, and two roll-off containers (one of which is also fitted with a slewing crane grab), Thirdwigg’s truck is an excellent creation with which to begin the new year.
There’s much more to see at Thirdwigg’s ‘Hook Lift Truck’ album on Flickr, where a link to building instructions can also be found, and you can click the link above for the hook.
The Mercedes-Benz section of our A-Z of Lego Trucks is about 85% Unimog. A licensed LEGO set, alternates built from other LEGO sets, fire trucks, snow plows, tippers, cranes… there are nearly as many brick-built variants of Mercedes-Benz’s famous off-road tractor as there are variations of the real thing.
Cue TLCB Master MOCer, and builder behind many of the Unimogs already in the Archive, Kyle Wigboldly (aka Thirdwigg), who adds another to his already expansive back-catalogue. And this time it’s the weird one.
Thirdwigg’s Technic 1:21 recreation of the Unimog U90 captures its strange asymmetrical form brilliantly and is packed with working functionality. An inline 5-cylinder engine under an opening hood is turned by the wheels, there’s working ‘HOG’ steering, a rear portal axle, rear hitch, tipping load bed, and a variety of attachments than can mount both fore and aft, including a winch, street-sweeper, and snow plow.
Building instructions are available and you can find a link to them plus all of the excellent imagery at Thirdwigg’s ‘Unimog U90 1:21’ album on Flickr. Take a look at the weirdest Unimog of the lot via the final link in this post, plus you can discover how Thirdwigg creates models like this one via his interview here at TLCB by clicking on the third.