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Post: # 44005Post GB_Groundworks

i know they just want to be like their dads haha, i

the bruder pro series

http://brudertoys.com/index.php?cPath=21

cant see the paver any more but some wicked stuff haha,

the roller

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Thats a lovely model, all metal I take it?

Shame they don't do a Bomag 120 or thereabouts!
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Post: # 44007Post GB_Groundworks

no they are more toys made of plastic, rather than the larger scale models in diecast 1:50scale.

like the size and scale of your lads volvo skid steer.

they do some of the bigger rollers

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Giles did your lad get any new plant for Christmas ?

might need to add the snowplough and the gritter :)
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Post: # 44471Post GB_Groundworks

we got a tower crane a jcb 4cx a jcb 710 adt a massive dozer, the aunties let the side down and rather than cool bruder we got early learning centre plant haha. i'll add some pics in a bit. still waiting on his js220 1:50 not turned up yet ordered in before xmas.
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Post: # 44475Post GB_Groundworks

got some more plant kept at grandmas haha

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new crane and jcb stuff

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big remote control john deere dozer
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had it pushing snow around haha

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turned that into a right paddy field eh!!!

atleat someone having some fun......quality all that!!
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just spent the morning finding videos on youtube of all his models and he then has to find the right one haha he's a pro at it, we even watched a video of loader a volvo a25 adt on a low loader and he copied it with his at and low loader haha, since the original photos found the tracks for the cat 955 tracked shovel and the cat excavator plus found a proper 1:50 scale mac truck and low loader.



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adt broke down having to push it onto low loader to go back to volvo haha :)

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Bet u cant guess?

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i did guess haha camera angle and close focus

but very impressive i can't wait till my lads a bit older and we can upgrade to stuff like that
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I was thinking of you and your lad today Giles when I walked past the model shop in the Trafford Centre and they have the remote control john deere dozer in the window :D
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Trafford centre, Mick? Bloody hell!

Either you're having a mental breakdown or you're on a promise! Those are the only two reasons any male goes to that place now the building work is completed.
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last time i was up there for boxing ,the IRA blew up some shopping centre in Manchester
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hang on a minute i go shopping once a year and last Sunday just happened to be it :p
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