Scania R500 Recovery truck

[Milan]

Bricks in its full glory!

[Ralph_S]

This is very nice. I like the style of your models in general. They're packed with fine details everywhere, but make no attempt to be studless and still look like Lego.

Thank you. Studless is the norm for many builders, but as I've written before (both on EB and elsewehere) I'm a fan of both Model Team and the vehicles built for LEGOLand parks. They tend to have studs showing and it's never bothered me the slightest.

Great work Ralph, but I told you already I saw this truck for real last week at the Truckstar Festival and it is a very good match.

I hope that I can bring the dumper to one of the meetings later in the year, so that we can display together.

I read on the Joh v/d Zand company website that they'd be taking this truck to various shows, so I am not at all surprised that you've seen it. I'm not sure whether I'll make it to any meeting, but it would be nice to display some trucks together (and to actually meet!).

i love the cab...... i like it's little brother made by ricecracker over on lugnuts too

So do I. It's great to see that it too was front-paged here on EB.

Great build of!! Hope that Lego will bring something like this on the market. will be a great hit. so we can all build something great and nice like this one.

Cheers,

Raoul

I think the closest to this we'll be seeing are the kind of trucks they bring out in the Creator series. set 6753 could be rebuilt into a decent tow truck. A friend of mine from Brickish has been trying to convince me to put it into LDRAW and make instructions, but I'm not quite sure I'm up for it. I've made instructions for two smaller models recently and while not as horrible as I expected, it was still a lot of work.

Bricks in its full glory!

Thank you.

Cheers,

Ralph