Comments on: Attacking LEGO brushfires with my Wildland Ultra XT fire engine

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 05 May 2009 02:58:57 +0000

^ Unfortunately, I can't provide instructions, but my source for most of the pieces was BrickLink.com.

By: brickbuilder

brickbuilder — Tue, 05 May 2009 01:06:26 +0000

hi that is an awesome set where did you get all the pieces from and could i get a set of building instructions for the set ??

thanks Robert , Portland Oregon

proud Lego builder and collector

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:21:07 +0000

^ Glad they liked it enough to put it up on the wall! Only one of four, huh? No wonder finding reference pictures was fairly hard…

By: Thanel

Thanel — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:26:06 +0000

^
Yesterday I showed pictures of the build to the local firemen. The captain posted it on the station house wall. It was out of service that day, which led to interesting lessons from two of the firemen on fire engine construction, maintenance, weight and post major-action bureaucracy. Apparently the Ulta XT at SDFD-14 was donated by the builders and is only one of 4 in active service.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 01:49:59 +0000

Thanks for the comments, everyone! This was a really fun build — half-stud offset pretty much everywhere.

@KryptonHeidt: For bears. :-P

@worker201: I donno. If you compare it with photos that have people in them, it seems scaled about right…

@Thanel: Let me know what they say. I was going to do a shot for you (and the SDFD guys) with a different crew, but ran out of daylight.

By: Will Thomas

Will Thomas — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:26:13 +0000

@ Krypton: maybe ’cause he’s hardcore, the way the truck is. Oh yeah, and also like Andrew.

By: Thanel

Thanel — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:51:33 +0000

Nice. The brush truck goes without saying, but I particularly like the touch of the little cans used to start backfires. I’ll see what the firemen at SDFD station 14 think. I’m sure they won’t be too offended by the CDF uniforms instead of their dark blue.

By: Dean H

Dean H — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 13:30:17 +0000

Needs more zombies.

By: Rocko

Rocko — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 08:06:46 +0000

I agree it’s cute but not too cute. The original is just as chunky, which makes it perfect source material. The size looks fine to me considering “minifig scale” is highly variable. I forget the exact statistic but didn’t someone determine if people had minifig dimensions they would weigh like 600 lbs or something.

Nice work Andrew.

By: worker201

worker201 — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 06:28:23 +0000

I think you could have done this 1.5x or 2x bigger, and still kept it minifig scale. Which would have made a very imposing and impressive vehicle. What you’ve created is a great and well-detailed model, but it’s a bit too cute. The source photo looks more badass.

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 02:23:34 +0000

It looks very rugged and cool. Looking at the photo, I can see that it’s quite accurate as well.

By: KryptonHeidt

KryptonHeidt — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 00:13:09 +0000

Holy, that’s one cool MOC! But why does the guy with the chainsaw carry chains of ammo? :-)

By: Newillmeister

Newillmeister — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 23:46:33 +0000

Those chainsaws are pretty cool. I mean, on top of everything else. :-)