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Contents

New on dealer‘s shelves 6

Collector‘s portrait 10

Liebherr quick erecting cranes 18

Eye candy 31

Tin plate 33

Classified 37

Caterpillar 992C 14

Komatsu D475A-5 16

Sennebogen 690 HD 26

Hamm HW 90B from WSI 28

Palfinger PK 100002 30

Altering the Liebherr L 566 34

Quarry Diorama in 1:87 scale 38

Editorial 3

Contest 25

New Medias 32

Reader‘s picture 37

News from our Partners 40

News in brief 41

Last but not least 42

CollectingBruno Bieri has been collecting

rock crushers, all built by him, for the last 30 years. A large variety of lowboy tractor-trailer units from Nooteboom and others compliment his unique collection …

Carsten Bengs finishes the deve-lopment story of the quick erecting cranes from Liebherr in this issue. He introduces three crane types, trailblazers in the original as well as in model form …

Models

35 years ago, the Caterpillar 992C showed up at quarry opera-tions for the first time. In our lead story, we introduce the new, red-hot 1:48 scale model from CCM …

The Hamm HW 90B road roller has been in production for over 30 years at the Tirschenreuther factory in Germany. WSI has obliged the collecting community with the re-lease of a model in 1:50 scale …

CurrentThe Palfinger PK 1000002 is a

huge truck mounted crane. The new model from Conrad is just as im-pressive as the original. A case for our specialist Carsten Bengs …

The firm of Ladegüter Bauer is al-ways good for a great 1:87 scale dis-play diorama at the toy fair in Nu-remberg. Last year’s offering is in a quarry setting and shows the whole process, from the quarrying of the stone to the transportation off site …

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