My Custom Gudi Ice Cream Monster Truck!

Hi and thanks for visiting Bricks and Figs, my blog about my custom not Lego creations and minifigure reviews.   In this post, I will show you my latest custom build, the Ice Cream Monster Truck!

Just a bit of background, Lego recently released their Burger Monster Truck set31104 and it looked really cool.  Then, when I was checking out the latest not Lego brick sets on Aliexpress, I happened to see more Monster food trucks.

Lego Burger Monster Truck 31104

Sembo 5000 - 5003 Food Trucks

There are four different food trucks in the Sembo series: A burger or sub truck, an ice cream truck, a fried chicken truck and a coffee truck.  They all look great and I wanted to buy them all.  

I had narrowed my choice to the ice cream truck and was ready to buy it.  But at the last minute, I held off because I already have two ice cream trucks in my brick collection, the Enlighten 1112 Ice Cream truck and the Gudi 9603 Ice Cream truck.  

Then it dawned on me, that instead of spending another $30 on the Sembo monster food truck, I could simply make my own.  I already have a set of giant balloon tires and rims, and I could use and convert one of my existing ice cream trucks for it.

Gudi 9603 Ice Cream truck

For this monster truck project, I decided to use the Gudi Ice Cream truck.  As you can see it's a pretty bland truck, but has lots of windows and is easily modifiable.  The original wheels are begging to be replaced.

I pulled off the existing wheels and spindles and replaced the original 2 piece chassis with this long thicker 4x16 Megabloks part.

Next, I used 2 16 stud long technic beams and attached a couple of right angle brackets to them.  I also mounted 2 exhaust pipes to the frame. Those are real Lego balloon tires and rims.  

Here's the wheel assembly.

Here we have attached the frame to the body of the ice cream truck.

I typically don't use stickers in my builds but made an exception in this case.  Did I over do it?

One thing that I'm still missing is a ladder to get to the window.  Right now, you would have to throw your money at the ice cream lady and then catch the ice cream cone when she throws it to you, lol.
 

Rear view of the truck.

In addition to the stickers, I made some minor roof enhancements, nothing too noticeable.  I added an awning on the street-side of the truck.

More pics for your viewing pleasure.

Had those funny eye pieces, so figured I'd use them here.

Gudi 9208 fire truck Set Instructions

Set Instructions:  Gudi 9208

Here are the instructions to make your own Gudi 9208 Fire Truck.   There are 122 pieces in this set.

Front cover

Steps 1 and 2

Steps 3 and 4

Steps 5 and 6

Steps 7 and 8

Steps 9 and 10

Steps 11 and 12

The finished product.

Parts List

Back Cover

Thanks for looking!   Let me know in the comments, if there's any other instructions you want me to post here.

My Collection of Lego and Non Lego Fire Rescue Building Sets

Today, I'll be showing you my small collection of Fire and Rescue building sets.  Most of them are not Lego but I do have a few Lego sets as well.   The little utility vehicle above comes from the Kazi 8052 Fire Station set.

This is the Fire Department Car, model 8057, also by Kazi.  You can tell the Kazi models by the crappy wheels that they come with.  I believe this is a copy of an older Lego model.

Another Kazi model, this one is model 8055. It's a Fire Department pickup truck with trailer. This is a near bootleg of Lego model 7942.

This was my first Gudi model fire truck 9209.  I like that it's wheels are similar to that of Lego models. 

This model is the Fire Truck model 8054 by Kazi.

Another Gudi brand fire apparatus,  this fire truck is from the Fire Rescuer set 9215.

I modified this Kazi 8053 Fire Snorkel model by extending the cab.

Here's an actual Lego model in my collection.  It's the Fire Truck from the Fire Emergency set 60003.

Here's my other Lego model.  It's the Fire Department Helicopter 7206.

The Kazi Fire Station 8052.  

As part of my Fire Marine unit, this model is from Gudi 9213.

 And finally, this big Fire and Rescue ship, by Enlighten, model 909.  Despite it's massive size it only has 361 pieces.

I have a soft spot for Fire and Rescue Apparatus as you can tell from my building block collection.   I also collect Fire Engine Diecast models which you can find on my other blog:

http://code3diecast.blogspot.com

Just curious, does anyone else collect Fire and Rescue building sets or diecast?  Please leave me a comment below.

Thanks for visiting!!