It’s not often we see the Space program represented in LEGO bricks, but this MOC truly delivers:
A rare beauty
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Category Archives: Construction
Modular City
Eurobricks member Alex54 brings us new pictures of his fantastic modular creations:
Alex54's modular city street
To start showing us how he-rebuilt all of his previous modular buildings and how he agonized over which scale to settle on, he’s brought us an in-depth history of his Yellow Modular House:
Yellow Modular House disected and thoroughly discussed
Alex takes scale very seriously and provides all of his reasoning and conclusions in a very in-depth discussion. He shares his experience so you can learn how to build a fantastic layout like his! The result truly is amazing…and so is his clever use of binoculars. 
Blue MAN Group
Model Team master MOCcer Lasse Deleuran has always liked to create both sweet 1:25 trucks and smaller editions of those. This time though he’s gone one step further with minifying his vehicles – all the way down to minifig scale.
A couple of weeks ago he showcased this great MAN TGS 8×4 cement truck with built-in Power Functions used – yes, you guessed it – to make the drum do the wobble (among other things).
Rotate that funky drum boy!
Now he’s gone ahead and shrunk the blue truck so that it can help with minifig-scale construction as well. No Power Functions this time – but Lasse claims it’s still capable of throwing around GBC balls as its big brother did. And let’s be frank here, if your cement truck can dispense balls, why would you ever need to ask for more?
Drum is shrunk, but still funky.
Lasse has been pretty busy lately, also building a 6-wide Octan truck and providing his 2008 Coca Cola truck with a minified edition. He is still one man short of forming his very own Blue Man Group though, so I’d suggest a microscale cement truck next…
Construction Time Again
Time for some minifig-scale heavy machinery to hit the frontpage again. First comes a creation by our own fellow C-T blogger Isaac Mazer (better known as Ricecracker) who’s posted pics of a nice hi-reach excavator.
Sure looks like it's able to reach pretty high.
He says it’s not exactly a looker, but who cares – as long as it gets the job done. And by the looks of it, it must be pretty reliable in that aspect.
Next up is a double combo by Ken Osbon – who seems to be quite the Kenworth fan. Shown here, a C500 and a T800 hard at work.
Double the muscle, double the blue. Likey!
OK, this should be enough heavy-duty presence for the time being. Now, does anybody know a good way to clean up all the construction dust?
Monster Machine
What do you do when you can’t use a tower crane, but need to lift that super heavy load? Why, you call in the Liebherr LG 1750 by M_longer, of course! This eight axle behemoth is really a set of outriggers on wheels – the crane is assembled on site.
All eight axles have pendular suspension, and six of them have steering.
Once put together, the crane is massive, at almost 2 metres tall! Fully functional, it has three motors. One for the winch, and two for the booms. There’s even a video showcasing the functions.
That's a feller-buncher it's lifting!
Comment on it here!
Unimog U500
One of the many new future sets revealed recently has been a Unimog U500. It’s amazing in Technic scale, but is even more amazing in minifig scale, like this one by Maksymilian1.
Unimog U500
Maksymillan1 has built his truck with a great boom flail mower and has made it a hi-railer. He’s also built a red U400 with salter and plow.
So, You Wanted to Build an Excavator?
Ralph Savelsberg (Mad Physicist) seems to have started a trend among MOC-ers. With his recent Caterpillar Transport, he may have stimulated a couple of other builders to have a go at minifig-scaled excavators. But before we get to the other excavator MOCs, make sure you check out Ralph’s innovative way of building the operator’s cabin.
Ralph's Caterpillar
Whereas Ralph’s excavator has a relatively modest size, lego junkie builds a real heavy-duty excavator and – as a bonus – a nice road construction scene to go along with it.
lego junkie's Excavator
Finally, we feature Sven Junga‘s excavator, which features realistically looking hydraulics and a white cabin for a change.
Sven's Excavator
For those of you that want to have a go at building excavators of their own, this should give you plenty of building ideas. So start digging in your Lego pile and look for treads and some big excavating buckets. We here at Classic-Town.net are certainly looking forward to some more excavator MOCs that combine the best techniques of the experts featured above.
Magnum x 3 – Renault, Are You Watching?
Because it seems that you’ve got yourselves quite a decent fanbase over at Eurobricks!
First, there’s this Model Team Magnum replica, built by local MOC expert Lasse D, complete with two PF motors for lights, steering and driving… and, of course, remarkably true-to-the-original styling.
PowerF-ful Magnum
Impressive as that might be, it’s not all – construction MOCcer Milan has also come up with his own slightly smaller version of the truck, this time in its previous generation look.
This much yellow just can't be overlooked!
And to top it all off, a couple of days ago, train and truck fan Selander posted pics of his 6-wide take on the latest French heavyweight fad.
Fit for a minifig.
Quite obviously, bricks will be sh… hauled!
Dual Review for the “Diggers”
Eurobricks Reviewers Academy Teacher, The Cobra has done an in-depth dual review of both 7246 Mini Digger and 5627 Dozer, in this exclusive Digger vs. Dozer. Check out those comparison details of these various diggers and share those thoughts with us in Eurobricks LEGO Trains & Town.
Digger vs. Dozer
Dirty Dumper
Here’s a clever little creation by Bobofrut, a Dirty Dumptruck. This nicely designed construction vehicle was not built in classic yellow style, but rather brown, black, and grey, making it rather unique. The dumping section looks particularly nice as it dumps some standard 2×2 bricks.
