Originally produced by the Kenworth Truck Company back in the 1980’s, the 993 model translates pretty well into LEGO all thanks to TsungNing Lee. Made to haul the heaviest of equipment, the truck actually doesn’t have room for its 700 hp Cummins V-12 engine in the front. Instead, you can see where it resides behind the driver, represented here by a bit of gray mechanics enclosed in a shell of yellow bricks and tubing.
Dump trucks are a staple of the LEGO City and Technic lines, but those versions focus on the highway-friendly variety that you might see around construction sites. The Komatsu 930E, modeled here by TsungNing Lee, is not that sort of truck. It’s an ultra-class behemoth, standing 24 feet (7.37m) tall, capable of hauling over 300 tons. That puts this massive model at about 1/2 minifig scale. TsungNing works almost entirely with LEGO system parts, with only a few Technic elements to handle the steering mechanism and axels, and custom stickers to match the real thing. I’m impressed by the use of curves in this bulky beast, both in the inverted slopes of the bed and the precisely bent tubing for the railing. While the model itself isn’t new TsungNing recently shared a thorough gallery of this and other masterfully detailed trucks from his collection.
As a bonus, TsungNing also made a microscale version of the truck:
