Welcome to the third and final part of the Technic Scotland build of the Lego Technic Bulldozer.
Manual 3 takes adds the front blade and rear ripper to the model, adding that extra realism.
Manual 3 is the slimmest of the manuals taking up only 37 pages (Manual 1 – 61, Manual 2 – 61). This bit was one of the easiest parts of the build and also the most enjoyable. After 20 mins I’d built something substantial. The other sections you’d spend 2 hours building something and it would be reasonably small.
The front blade
The first part of manual 3 builds out the mounting for the front blade. Nothing too difficult to build, although I did make a major mistake. I mounted the blade riser bits on the wrong way around. I only noticed when the blade wouldn’t raise correctly.
Next the front blade. Again nothing strenuous, big pieces, making up a big section. The front blade is made up of 3 major bits – the bottom section, the main back piece and the top. The back is made up of 3 square sections held together with black rivets. On to that a few layers of plates are added making up the back. The base is simply 2 layers of plates, as is the top section.
Joining the blade to the rest of the model was straight forward.
The rear ripper
On to the rear ripper. I’ve still not worked out how it works; I just know it seems to work.
I then found out a major issue – one of the crucial parts was missing! A small part, probably a few grams was missing – no sign of it. Unfortunately this temporarily stopped the build until I could find a replacement part.
I eventually located a replacement part and continued with the build.
The last part is to join the rear ripper on to the base model. This requires very nimble fingers! After a couple minutes it eventually went together. A major tip would be to connect up the universal joint first, and everything else will line up.
Model finished.
Time taken for 3rd part of the build – 20 minutes
360 degrees around the finished Lego Technic Bulldozer
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