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Special Liebherr
branded box.
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Looks great
overall. |
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Metal
handrails. |
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Grab rail and
mirror is
plastic. |
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Simple bucket. |
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Digging at
depth is very good. |
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At work. |
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Different
textures on top. |
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Folds up to a
realistic transport pose. |
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The Liebherr
R 938 Crawler Excavator is a machine in the 40 tonne
class.
This model is of the machine displayed at ConExpo 2020
which was decorated to celebrate 50 years of Liebherr
operating in the United States of America.
Packaging
The model comes in a special Liebherr-branded box with the model packed within good quality
foam rubber.
There were no defects or missing parts on
the review model.
No instructions are provided and there is no information
about the real machine. A mirror has to be fitted which
is easy to do.
Detail
The tracks are metal and good quality and the pads are
triple grouser. They are mounted on good track
frames with some intricate detailing of the bottom
rollers, although they are non-functioning. The
drive sprocket is plastic.
The cab is metal with plastic grab rails and the windows
have nice seals and frames. The interior detail is very good.
The detailing of the body is very good with painted
panel handles and graphics to represent grilles. The
plastic mirror is not silvered
which is a pity and the grab rail is plastic too.
The decoration of the body is really nice with the
graphics seeming to be an accurate representation of the
real machine at ConExpo. There are metal handrails
around the top of the body. Hydraulic
hoses run to the top surface of the boom.
The boom and stick hydraulics are very good with soft
plastic hoses and stiff plastic pipe arrays. Connections
of the members
are made with small brass rivets. The Stars and
Stripes graphics look great and one difference to the
real machine is that the underside is white on the model
and Liebherr yellow on the real machine.
The metal bucket is a relatively simple casting.
Features
The tracks are stiff and can be turned by hand and they are
tensioned with spring-loaded idlers in the track frames.
It rotates and it was very smooth on the review model.
The range of movement of the boom and stick is very good.
The
bucket has a full range of movement in and out.
The aerial on the cab folds down to reduce the headroom
in transport mode.
Quality
This is a solid and robust model which is mostly metal
and relatively heavy, with an appropriate use of plastic.
The paintwork and graphics are of a high standard.
Price
The model was reasonably priced for a special limited
edition.
Overall
This is a special looking model which is a nice limited
edition model for Liebherr fans. As an excavator
model it is straightforward and robust.
Footnotes
The model was produced in a limited edition of 600
pieces for the ConExpo Exhibition in March 2020.
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Parked up. |
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Stars and
Stripes makes the boom stand out. |
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Simple
underneath. |
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Profile view. |
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Thin hydraulic
hoses run from boom to stick.
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Nice
model. |
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Loading a US truck.
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On the road. |
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Attractive model. |
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