The 'New crane, blue crane Part 1' blog post dealt with the contents of 'Bag 7'. Now on to 'Bag 8'.

Here's what you get:

That little box contains the thread for attaching the crane scoop.

Most of these pieces were to construct the cab. It's a well-designed piece, with an opening front to make it easy to put the guy in and get him back out again.

The rear of the cab is finished off using a technique known as Studs Not On Top (SNOT). This is a technique Lego has really embraced in the past five years or so. For example, the large VW Camper Van they released a few years ago has an entire SNOT front, which you build separately and then attach. In the next two pictures you can see how a small plate has been built on and is then attached to a multi-way piece to run perpendicular to the rest of the cab model.

So with a little bit of black thread, a bit of building and a small bit of SNOT, the crane was finished.

Or was it... More next time.