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Hook & Draw

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It’s truck time here at The Lego Car Blog. Because we didn’t find any cars. But what a truck it is. Constructed by serial bloggee Arian Janssens, this DAF FAS XG+ 530 is outfitted with a hook-lift and drawbar trailer, meaning it can take two huge loads at once. Superb attention to detail is evident throughout the truck, trailer, and the massive black containers being transported by both, and there’s much more to see of the component parts and the complete rig at Arian’s ‘DAF FAS XG+ 530’ album on Flickr.

Red One

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We’re only three models in to the new year and already we’re publishing one of the finest trucks this site has featured yet. And a title to piggy-back off a crappy movie for clicks…

Discovered on Eurobricks, this is Michael217‘s fully remote-controlled Kamaz 5410 6×4 truck, complete with some unique 3D-printed pieces and a partially – cough – un-LEGO drivetrain.

Riding on custom wheels under bespoke polycarbonate fenders, Michael’s Kamaz is powered by a combination of a LEGO Buggy Motor, GeekServo, and an RCBric Management controller, with 6×4 drive, working steering, a two-speed gearbox, tilting cab, and a V8 engine.

The resultant truck looks spectacular and there’s more to see of Michael’s superbly-presented model at the Eurobricks forum. Click the link above to find the full build details and further top quality images.

The Hook

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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.

Allelys’ Arocs

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We regularly feature ginormous trucks here at The Lego Car Blog. Because we’re five. But today’s is rather smaller, being just seven studs in width, yet packing in as much detail as models several times its size. Built by regular bloggee Ralph Savelsberg, this Mercedes-Benz Arocs replicates the real world trucks run by British heavy haulage firm Allelys, and you can see more of it, the trailer it pulls, and a few of Ralph’s other superb small-scale haulers via the link above.

Micro MAZ

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Here at The Lego Car Blog we love enormous, many-motored machines. Because we’re six. But there’s joy to be found in the small things too, as proven today by Nathan Hake and this wonderful micro-scale MAZ-537. Constructed crossing an autumnal bridge, Nathan’s miniature MAZ is a tiny tribute to his own enormous, many-motored version built for a Lego show that appeared here a few months ago. There’s more of Nathan’s mini-MAZ to see via the link above, you can find the huge show-stopping version from which this diorama is derived here, and if you’d like to see more of the many MAZs to appear at TLCB to date you can click this bonus link to find them all.

Keep the Fath

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‘Tis the season of love, wonder, and miracles. So here’s an Iranian short-range satellite-guided tactical ballistic missile system.

Mounted on an Iveco Trakker curtain-sided truck, the Fath-360 TEL missile system is so nondescript when covered up, it could be driving down any European street and no-one would know what was inside. Good thing one of Iran’s customers isn’t currently invading a European neighbour then.

Of course you might be wondering how sanctioned Iran, and its allies Russia and Syria, are getting their hands on an Italian truck on which to mount a ballistic missile system, particularly as Italy (along with the rest of the EU) are supporting Ukraine, the very country invaded by Iran’s key customer. Well, us too.

Whatever, this neat mini-figure scale replica of the Fath-360 missile system and the Iveco Trakker that transports it comes from previous bloggee Ralph Savelsberg, who has captured it superbly, particularly the ‘curtain’ stacked over the cab to allow deployment. There’s more to see on Flickr, and you can join some Russians driving an Iranian ballistic missile system covertly through a Ukrainian town, courtesy of Italy, via the link above.

Marble Run

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This skeletal-looking creation is a Mack Marble trial truck, and it comes from regular bloggee and TLCB Master MOCer Thirdwigg, who has eschewed his usual all-mechanical approach for a suite of Power Functions electronics. Which means his latest model has done 100% more Elf-smushing than all his others combined.

There are mechanical functions too though, with working suspension and a 5-cylinder piston engine present, and you can check out more of Thirdwigg’s Mack Marble at his Flickr album of the same name.

Volvo²

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No this time we’re not making classic Volvo jokes. Because today’s post is a Volvo atop another Volvo, for some kind of Volvo².

This phenomenal Volvo Aero truck is the work of MCD, and it might be – visually at least – the most life-like Technic truck our Elves have found to date. Constructed in 1:21 scale, the Technic panels MCD has used fit the model so perfectly it looks like they were purpose made for it, as do the genuine stickers from the LEGO Technic 42175 Volvo FMX set which work a treat here.

A five-axle Nooteboom trailer in tow carries another beautifully recreated Volvo hauler, with MCD’s classic Volvo F89 every bit as good as the modern Aero transporting it.

There’s more to see of both creations at the Eurobricks discussion forum, and you can click the link above to get to the square root of Volvo trucks.

Technic Trials

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Technic building can be difficult. In fact the comment we receive most into The Lego Car Blog Inbox (besides spam for crypto currencies obviously) is ‘Can I have building instructions?’. Well yes, today you can! Because this superb fully RC flatbed trial truck by TLCB Master MOCer Kyle Wigboldy (aka Thirdwigg) has been published with free building instructions. One hundred TLCB Points to Kyle. Four-wheel-drive, steering, and all-wheel-suspension are on the features list and you can find all the (beautiful) imagery and the link to building instructions at Kyle’s ‘Off Road Pickup Truck’ album. Take a look via the second link above, plus you can click the first to read Kyle’s interview here at TLCB.

Black Square

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The Black Square is a 1915 oil-on-canvas painting by Kazimir Malevich, and about the meaning of which we know absolutely nothing. It probably represents something revolutionarily profound, but seeing as we’re a site more known for toilet humour and Your Mom jokes than intelligent discourse, you won’t uncover its significance here.

Thus the Black Square we have today is not a piece of 1910’s art but this resolutely right-angled Peterbilt 352 cab-over truck and equally rectangular chilled trailer. Flickr’s Wlad Prokopets is its creator and you can take a look at his superbly constructed Peterbilt via the link above, or alternatively you can click here to learn something about the suprematist art movement.

Wheelie Alternative

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LEGO’s 60409 Mobile Construction Crane continues to take City sets to new heights, both physically and financially. It also comes with sixteen wheels (and hilariously a portable toilet), which means there are plenty of parts available should you wish to convert your construction crane into something else. Or indeed somethings else.

Cue Marek Markiewicz (aka M_longer), who has transformed his 60409 Mobile Construction Crane set into an M1120 HEMMT complete with a whole heap of cargo. And a drawbar trailer. And a telehandler.

It’s an excellent way to use sixteen wheels (and a portaloo), with each B-Model being a fantastic Town/City vehicle in its own right, and there’s more to see – including a link to building instructions – at Marek’s photostream by clicking here.

Zillie Smalls

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The Lego Car Blog Elves have a well-publicised penchant for extreme violence. They’ve squashed, flattened, and smushed one-another via a variety of brick-built creations, and whilst they may be mythical, the stains left by their bodily fluids certainly aren’t.

Cue another can of carpet foam today, thanks to previous bloggee gyenesvi and this most excellent Buwizz-powered Zil 130 trial truck.

Propelled by two Powered-Up L Motors driving all six wheels with another controlling the steering, and with live-axle suspension (coil up front and leaf sprung at the rear), gyenesvi’s Zil can climb over almost anything, including a few unsuspecting Elves who were quietly watching something with Megan Fox in on the TV in their cage room.

Luckily for us gyensvi’s Zil trial truck is actually really small (and therefore a rather clever feat of Technic engineering), and thus it didn’t take long before an Elf got wedged between the rear wheels and brought the rampage to an end.

There’s more of the model to see at both the Eurobricks forum and Bricksafe, where links to building instructions can also be found, plus you can watch the truck in action in the video below. Take a look via the links above, whilst we sponge some Elf blood out of the carpet.

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The Weird One

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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.

The A-Z of Lego Trucks

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If you want to find all the best Lego models of your favourite car brand that the web has to offer, then look no further than our A-Z of Lego cars. A multitude of manufacturers from Alfa to Volvo are present, which admittedly doesn’t quite get the list to Z yet, but a few more Zastavas and we’ll be there.

We don’t stop at cars either. If you prefer your vehicles with two wheels and a predisposition to make you an organ donor, the A-Z of Lego motorbikes packs in everything from BMW to Vespa.

But what if you’re reading this from your cab in a truck stop, or you just like really big Lego vehicles? Well here at The Lego Car Blog we haven’t forgotten you… this is the A-Z of Lego Trucks!

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DAF

We kick off our truck list not with A, but with DAF. Which at least has an A in it. Dozens of DAFs are in the Archive, with most from just a single builder. Find them all via the link above.

Freightliner

Famously flat fronted, except when they’re not, the American heavy-duty truck maker has appeared here half-a-dozen times so far. Click here to find all the brick-built Freightliners in the Archive to date.

GAZ

Mostly Soviet-era military off-road trucks designed to go where the roads end. Many of the models we’ve featured have been designed with that in mind too, being powered by a suite of motors, and you can find them all – motorised or static – by clicking here.

Hino

Toyota’s truck building subsidiary has appeared here at The Lego Car Blog only a fraction of the times of its car-making parent company, but the brick-built Hinos are excellent nonetheless. Find them here.

Isuzu

Fellow Japanese truck maker Isuzu bank rather more entries, including fire trucks, flatbeds, and of course Lego versions of their box trucks that are prolific the world over. Find them all in the Archives here.

Iveco

The fifty year old Italian truck maker’s products have featured here around a dozen times over the years. Find every Iveco to appear via the link above.

Kamaz

Back to the USSR, and a Soviet brand which surprisingly isn’t almost exclusively military. Kamaz are a modern success story too, and you can find an array of their trucks old and new in the Archives here.

Kenworth

Some of the largest and most visually stunning trucks ever built in Lego are those of the century-old American brand. If you’re into Lego trucks at the absolute peak, click this link and gawp.

Mack

Aircraft haulers, garbage trucks, movie trucks, and even official LEGO sets, all manner of Mack models have appeared here to date. Find them all via the link above.

MAN

A vast variety of MAN models reside in the Archives, with the brand’s tippers, wreckers, heavy haulers, mobile cranes, and even off-road racers all represented. Find every MAN at the link above.

MAZ

Back to the Soviet Union, which of course means that many of the Archival entries are trucks designed to blow things up. But not all of them. Find trailers of cabbage alongside ballistic missiles here.

Mercedes-Benz

As famous for their trucks as they are their cars, over one-hundred Mercedes-Benz truck images are in the Archive to date. About 80% of which are Unimogs. Find them all, including several official LEGO sets, by clicking here.

Mitsubishi

Trucks don’t get any more workday than these. As white-goods as the brand’s air-conditioners, yet just as important to everyday life in East Asia, you can find each Mitsubishi truck to appear via the link.

Peterbilt

One of the most numerous brands in the Archive, there are some spectacularly detailed creations wearing the Peterbilt logo. Lights, chrome, and even a trailer full of beer are available here.

Renault

France’s national truck maker is most famous for one particular model, named after a champagne bottle. Or an ice cream. Or a condom. Find all the Magnums (plus a few other Renault trucks too) by clicking here.

Scania

Europe’s most stylish truck brand. So we’ve picked something square from the seventies for the thumbnail… Find a huge quantity of Scanias past and present by clicking these words.

Tatra

The highest average wheel-count of any truck manufacturer in the Archives, most Lego Tatras have eight. And nearly as many electric motors. A truck-trial favourite, join the off-road fun here.

Volvo

Dozens of Volvo trucks have appeared here to date, plus a whole array of construction equipment to wear the iron logo too. Find fan-built models and official LEGO sets alike by clicking here.

Ural

Named after the mountains in their Russian homeland, most Urals in the Archive are – unsurprisingly – of a military flavour. They’re also really very good indeed. Click the link above to see them all.

ZIL

We couldn’t start with A, but thanks to ZIL we have Z in the bank! Tipper trucks, tankers, Arctic expedition vehicles, and – of course – weird Soviet military contraptions are all available here!

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That’s Lego creations representing twenty of the top truck manufacturers from DAF to ZIL, where there are sufficient entries in the Archives (and that we could remember when writing this…).

Of course if we’ve missed the one you’re looking for you can search for any truck make or model via the search function on every page. Plus a whole lot more besides. Happy trucking!

Howo Wowo!

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This is a SinoTruk Howo 8×4 tipper truck, and it’s incredible. OK, the real thing isn’t particularly, being just another generic-looking Chinese state-owned truck, but newcomer P McCatty’s Technic recreation sure is.

Powered by two BuWizz bluetooth batteries, MCatty’s model features eight-wheel-drive, four-wheel steering, live-axle suspension, a six-cylinder engine, and an on-board pneumatic compressor.

Said compressor generates pneumatic pressure that can be used to both tilt the cab or raise the huge tipping load bed, which alone uses six pneumatic cylinders in its operation.

There’s also opening and locking doors and tailgate, and opening hood revealing the radiators and spinning cooling fan, adjustable sun visors, windshield wipers and glovebox, and custom foam-filled RC off-road tyres.

It’s a seriously impressive piece of Technic engineering, and you can see how it’s been done courtesy of an extensive photo album on Flickr and a huge Bricksafe gallery, both of which include renders of the mechanics within, plus an incredibly detailed build description can be found at the Eurobricks forum.

Click the links above to take a closer look at one of the most impressive working Technic trucks of the year, you can watch McCatty’s SinoTruk Howo in action via the excellent video below, and you can even find building instructions so you can recreate it for yourself via the various links above.