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Nice review, you've covered it really well. Good clear photos as well. I agree with you about the tractor. It's odd having wheels in that environment, especially to tow a large trailer, but it's also a pretty cool design. I've bought most of the Arctic line as there's a lot of cool elements to it but as a MODer I haven't built any of them OOB. I ended up modding the trator by adding an extra pair of wheels and an enclosed control cabin for the crane/drill (so it combined the function of the tracked drill from the base camp set). Then I used left over parts from the mobile outpost, the tracked base camp vehicle and parts from the collection to build a tracked outpost. Makes a little more sense to me. I've almost completed a tracked trailer/lab to go with it as well as a few other things. I plan to some time do a diorama for all these as I really like the line (though mining in the Arctic was a little bit of an odd choice). Hope you don't mind me sharing these here.

Hi all, Another Australian joing the forum :) I've been lurking for a while but decided I should sign up so I could actually post. Being a 40 something year old living in Sydney I just got back into Lego a couple of years ago while shopping for Xmas gifts for my nieces and saw lots that I wanted so ended up buying more for myself than I did for them LOL. Anyway I'm into some of the City, Creator and Star Wars sets as well as a few of the LOTR/Hobbit sets, basically whichever design catches my eye. I rarely build sets OOB and so I guess I'm a mostly a MODer. I want to get into MOCing. Lego was always my favourite toy as a kid even though I didn't have a huge amount due to the cost. I still have 90% of my childhood Lego though including a few classic space sets (really hoping they bring that line back some day). Anyway, that's me.