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| Conrad styled box.
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| Steering angle
is very good - even more than shown here.
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| Ladder and
platform are metal. |
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| Excellent
exhaust detail. |
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| Discharge
chute opens out. |
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This is a model of a Mercedes Benz
Actros 3 axle chassis with a Schwing Stetter mixer drum.
Schwing is a large German company specialising in
concrete mixing and placing equipment and the Stetter
division has produced truck mixers since 1958.
The truck is in the colours of
Godel Beton, a concrete company in the Stuttgart
area of Germany.
Packaging
This model comes in Conrad's own box design and inside
it is protected by a foam rubber covering. The review
model had no defects or missing parts.
Assembly is limited to fixing the door mirrors and roof
aerials.
There are no model instructions or information about the
real machine.
Detail
The chassis is mainly metal with some of the
transmission and suspension components in plastic. The detail is
good, with only the steering being modelled in a purely
functional way. The plastic wheel hubs are
detailed and have the same tread pattern tyres on all
wheels.
The Actros cab looks good with colour coded door mirrors
and a German number plate. Although there are no
orange beacon lights this appears correct to the real
trucks in the Godel Beton fleet. The interior of the
cab is simple. Behind the cab the exhaust is excellent
with its perforated cover and hole in the pipe end, and
a small metal equipment tower looks good too.
Metal diamond plated wheel arches cover the rear axles
and at the back the rear lights are painted.
The mixer drum and its components are almost all metal
and add weight to the model. This includes the
access ladder and platform at the loading chute.
Features
The steering mechanism is very good with a substantial
range of movement. The two rear axles float
vertically to a degree to replicate suspension.
The cab tilts forward to about 45° to reveal the
engine.
The mixer drum turns very smoothly and the discharge
chute at the rear can be rotated out and angled
horizontally to any position.
Quality
There is no doubt it is to Conrad's quality standard
being strong and built to last. The paintwork and
graphics are very good.
Price
The model is reasonable value.
Overall
Truck mixer models always pose well with other models
such as concrete pumps and this one is no exception.
The details show Conrad's gradual move to a higher level
of detailing and the features work well making the model
easy to recommend.
Footnotes
This model first appeared at the Nuremberg Toy Fair in
February 2010 and became available later in 2010.
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| There are few
parts to fit. |
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| Profile view. |
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| Wheel hubs are
good, side impact bars are plastic.
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| Underneath view.
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| Tilting cab.
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