It’s T time here at The Lego Car Blog, courtesy of Master MOCer Ralph Savelsberg and these immensely detailed Renault T trucks. In heavy haulage 8×4 and the more usual white 4×2 configurations, Ralph’s Ts pack in more detail than many models twice the size, and you head to Flickr for T time by clicking here. Just know that if you add sugar we’ll judge you for it.
The Lego Car Blog Elves are cheerfully riding around the office whilst attempting mildly xenophobic Eastern European accents today, courtesy of Michael Kulakov (aka Michael217) and this, his spectacular MAZ 504 truck.
Fully remote controlled via a mix of LEGO and third-party motors, Michael’s MAZ also features a two speed gearbox via a nicely accessible lever behind the cab (which also moves the in-cab gear lever), a working steering wheel, a 6-cylinder engine under a tilting cab, a mechanically deployable spare wheel carrier, working suspension, plus custom wheels, rubber mud-flaps, and 3D-printed front fender extensions.
The result is quite fantastically life-like (even if not quite all LEGO), and there’s loads more of Michael’s magnificently presented MAZ model to see at both Eurobricks and Flickr. Click the links above to check out his MAZterpiece.
Kei trucks are not renowned for their performance. Smallness yes. Speed no. But what if you fitted a twin-turbo engine in the entirety of the bed?… Well Flickr’s Sergio Batista has answered that question with his mad kei truck, which imagines what a Suzuki Carry would look like if it were built for Time Attack. With choice parts and the livery from the LEGO 77258 F1 Academy Car set it certainly looks the business, and you can drift through the narrow streets of Tokyo via the link above.
Various comments received here at TLCB have rightly accused us of posting garbage, and excitingly we’ve got more garbage to post today!
This is a Mack LR side-loading garbage truck, and it’s been built only from the parts of the LEGO Technic 42175 Volvo FMX & EC230 Electric Excavator set, so there’s some recycling going on as well.
There’s working steering, a 6-cylinder engine under the tilting cab, a tipping hopper, and an operational side-loading arm too.
Flickr’s Dyens Creations is the builder behind it, and you can put your bins out via the link above, plus you can click here for another 42175 alternate blogged here previously. Because we do post a lot of garbage.
We’re alternately off-roading at TLCB today, thanks to Master MOCer Thirdwigg and this neat Steyr-Puch Pinzgauer, an immensely capable military truck named after an Austrian cattle breed and built until the mid-‘00s.
Constructed from 755 parts of LEGO’s 42213 Technic Ford Bronco set, Thirdwigg’s recreation of the unusual Austrian off-road truck includes working suspension, steering, a mid-mounted piston engine, an opening hood, and – most importantly – a lunchbox.
Building instructions are available and you can click here to swap your American horse for an Austrian cow.
It’s been some time since one of our Elves ran over its colleagues with a remote control creation. And that doesn’t change today, as despite being epically remote controlled, this magnificent Tatra trial truck is too slow to run down any Elves at all. Which enraged the Elf that found it. Still, a Red Smartie will perk it up, and we can take a look at this astonishing creation without having to clean the floors first.
It comes from TLCB Master MOCer Sariel, and it’s a Tatra 813 8×8 designed specifically for going very slowly over almost anything.
Eight-wheel-drive, four-wheel-steering, high/low gearbox, incredible suspension, and a working piston engine all feature, and you can see more of this mighty machine on Flickr and via the video below, where Sariel pulls some very heavy things (very slowly) across his floor.
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Lots of companies are called Muller in Europe, but seeing as we only know what one of them does, we’re going to assume this lovely MAN TGX truck and trailer combo by Flickr’s Keko007 is full of those divided yoghurts that contain a compartment of fruit or chocolatey balls. Superb brickmanship abounds, particularly evident in the excellent Muller ‘M’ logo, and you can tip the little balls into the yoghurt via the link above.
The Isuzu NPR is the plastic stackable chair of vehicles; entirely overlooked, and yet utterly indispensable. The most interesting thing about an NPR is not the truck itself, but what it’s carrying. And that’s the whole point.
Cue thirdwigg’s Isuzu NPR glass truck, notable in real life only because it carries glass. Working steering, an inline-4 engine, and a tilting cab feature, with more to see – including a link to building instructions – via the link.
Do you own the LEGO Technic 42175 Volvo FMX & EC230 Electric Excavator set, but wish it was a little more… garbage? Then we have the perfect alternative!
Constructed only from the parts found within 42175, previous bloggee paave’s garbage truck B-Model features a tilting cab, functioning steering, a working piston engine, an operational discharge plate, an openable and locking tailgate, plus a pneumatically operable side-arm lift that can seemingly lift a bin from the other side of the street.
There’s more to see – including a link to building instructions – at the Eurobricks forum, plus you watch all those features in action below.
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We like a brick-built livery here at The Lego Car Blog, as they – like their real-world counterparts – are able to turn something rather ordinary and ubiquitous (like a DAF 95 truck) into something rather more visually interesting.
Cue Flickr’s joopatkleppie, whose DAF 95 wears the ‘90s livery of haulage firm Jonker Veendam, and that means diagonal stripes…
Jooptakleppie has managed it though, and you can check this diagonally-striped DAF at his photostream via the link.
TLCB is the sort of place where we like an improbably large engine attached to something wildly inappropriate. And there’s few vehicles more inappropriate for massive power than a Japanese Kei truck.
Limited to 3.4m in length and engines no larger than 660cc, Kei trucks are really very small indeed. But that hasn’t stopped newcomer Fukku Guen from fitting his with an enormous bed-mounted engine plus a pair of nitrous tanks.
We expect the handling – not to mention the carrying capacity – may be slightly compromised, but it more than makes up for that with fantastic silliness.
There’s more of Fukku’s modified Kei truck to see on Flickr, and you can take a look at his photostream via the link!
This morning has been somewhat messier than we hoped. A remote control creation was found by one of our Elves, which – as regular readers will know – of course means it was used to run over as many Elves as possible before it inevitably crashed.
Rather annoyingly however, the Elven attrition continued post-crash, because whilst the truck was out of action it was able to jettison the racing car it carried which was also remote controlled. Sigh.
Order has now been restored, the culprit given a Smartie (that’s how it works…), and we can take a look at the creation/s that caused the ruckus.
Built by Technic genius mahjqa, this remotely controlled transporter and racing car duo are a wonderful demonstration of brick-based engineering.
As well as both featuring remote control drive and steering, the racing car includes an oversized V8 engine with working cylinders, whilst the truck is equipped with a clever tilting hook-lift platform, with even cleverer automatic wheel chocks that deploy during the tilt to ensure the racing car doesn’t roll off.
It’s a brilliant solution and you can watch both models in action via the fantastic video below, in which mahjqa also reveals the ingenious Technic camera cars used to capture the footage, plus you can find full details at Eurobricks as well as all the images on Flickr here.
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It’s been a while since we had a trial truck here at TLCB Towers, but we’re making up for it today. This is Madoca 1977’s Tatra T813 8×8 Kolos, and it’s one of the most capable we’ve seen yet.
Controlled via a Smart Hub, two L Motors drive all eight fully-suspended wheels via planetary reduction, a M Motor drives the steering, whilst another M Motor operates the high/low gearbox.
Madoca’s model also includes a V12 engine, a removable cab, plus opening doors and hatches, with lots more to see at the Eurobricks forum. Click the link above for a closer look.
We’re feeling loooow today, not in mood, but in stance, thanks to this beautiful air-bagged Peterbilt 389 truck and MAC 4-axle trailer.
Constructed by Grigoriy, this stunning custom Peterbilt features a remote control ‘air ride’ system via a Powered-Up L Motor, motorised drive and steering, an inline-6 engine, opening doors and hood, a sprung front bumper, and a working fifth-wheel, whilst the huge MAC trailer includes a lift-and-steer system too.
There’s much more of the model see at both Bricksafe and Eurobricks, building instructions are available, and you can get low with us via the links above.
This neat Technic 8×4 truck and low-bed three-axle trailer comes from previous bloggee damianPLE, and despite the small scale there’s a full remote control drivetrain squeezed inside. The Power Functions Medium Motor and Servo are powerful enough to haul a load too, and you can see more (as well as find a link to building instructions) at Eurobricks and Bricksafe.