| Name | Description |
|---|
| „Ich will Bagger“ | A huge collection of links on construction, forestry, farming and heavy load equioment. |
| BauMa-Modellsammler.de | Aside from his collection, Berthold Wiesenfarth presents also pictures of real machinery on his website. (Currently mainly heavy haulag - website in German only.) |
| Baumaschinen in 1:50 | Horst Möhler presents several very interessting models in 1:50. |
| Cranes Etc | English site with a lot of detailed model reviews |
| Dennis Bosman’s Lego Trucks | Dennis Bosman is building fascinating models out of Lego bricks. |
| Familie Markgraf | Mr. Markgraf has collected a large number of models in 1 : 50. |
| Forstmodelle.de | Not construction machinery but interesting nonetheless: A site on models of forestry equipment. |
| Hadel.net | Jens and Frank Hadel are building models mainly 1 : 87 in scale. |
| Hansebube | Burkhardt Berlin is building models of heavy load equipment and cranes in 1 : 87 and 1 : 50 |
| Ken's Diecast Construction Models | Take look at Ken's large collection of models |
| LKW-Stefan | The site of “LKW-Stefan” features a huge archive on Demag excavators, and a large collection of pictures od real machines. |
| Miniature Construction World | This page features the “Definitive Model List” and a huge collection of pictures and information of models which are partly self-built. |
| Passion PTB | The site of a fench collector, featuring a rather large collection of 1:32 and 1:50 scale models. |
| Schwerlast Rhein-Main | Homepage of the Rhein-Main Regulars' Table of Heavy Loads. (German only.) You can find various photos of heavy loads lifting and transportation as well as custom built models. |
| Svens Forstmodelle | A little collection of forest machinery models in 1/50 and 1/32. (German only.) |
| transport-models.com | English site with photos of models and real machinery. |
| Verein für Kran- und Schwerlastmodelle | This society has dedicated itself to the construction of models of cranes and heavy load equipment, yet “only” in 1 : 87. |
| Name | Description |
|---|
| CCM | CCM (Classic Construction Models) is an American manufacturer of finely detailed models. The models are mainly made from American made real machines, both classic and current. |
| Brami | Brami offers only a limited range of products currently, but these are of very good quality. |
| Bymo | Bymo continues to produce some of the Brami models, but in the meantime has also marketed own new models. |
| Conrad | Along several models of asian machines, Conrad produces mainly models of european machines. |
| First Gear | First Gear is rather new to the business of making models of construction equipment, but can already offer some excellent models. |
| FM Modellbau | FM Modellbau is a Swiss model dealer which also published several limited models. |
| Gradall | Gradall is a well known American manufacturer of telescopic boom excavtors |
| HiMoBo | HiMoBo offers models of rare real machines in limited lots. |
| IMC | IMC is a Dutch manufacturer of scale models of construction equipment, heavy haulage equipment and trucks. |
| Joal | Joal of Spain started with rather crude models that seemed to be designed mainly as toys. But in the last few years, the models got considerably better. |
| Kaster | This young manufacturer produces models according to machinery from the Fayat Group, namely Bomag. |
| KSM | KSM is mainly a model dealer, but also offers some self-made small batch series models |
| KSV | KSV offers kits and ready-made models of historical vehicels in 1/43 scale. (German website only.) |
| Little Treasure Models | Little Treasure Models offered special-livery WSI models in small batch series. |
| Motorart | Motorart does make the very finely detailed Volvo models. |
| MSW-Modelle | MSW-Modelle is a model dealer primarily, but also produces models in special liveries as small batch series in cooperation with other manufacturers. |
| Norscot | This rather young manufacturer the only remaining owner of a Caterpillar license. |
| NZG | NZG used to have a broad offering of Caterpillar models but had to stop this in 2004 because of copyright issues.
NZG does concentrate on models of mostly european machines since then. |
| ROS Agritec | The Italien manufacturer ROS Agritec started building models of farming equipment at first, but added models of construction equipment to its product range in recent years. |
| Schuco | Schuco became famous mainly for its high quality car miniatures in 1 : 43. |
| SpecCast | SpecCast is a relatively young manufacturer of models which has specialised in models of historic US machinery. |
| Tekno | Tekno is a Dutch manufacturer of mainly truck models. |
| TMC | TMC is a rather young manufacturer of models. So far, only Hitachi models were made. |
| Tonkin | Tonkin produced some Caterpillar models in earlier times, but currently only manufacturers truck models of various US makes. |
| TWH | TWH is an American manufacturer of highly detailled models, especially of American machinery |
| Universal Hobbies | Universal Hobbies, a France based company has entered the market of modelmaking only recently. |
| WSI | WSI is a Dutch manufacturer of standard and heavy haulage truck models. |
| Name | Description |
|---|
| ABG | ABG of Hameln, Germany produces pavelayers and is now part of the Ingersoll Rand Group. |
| ABI | ABI produces drilling rigs and guide poles. |
| Ahlmann | Ahlmann is known for its wheel loaders with a pivoting system. At the same it is selling French Mecalac equipment in Germany. |
| Atlas | Atlas-Weyhausen was one of Germany's best known manufacturers of construction equipment, but was bought by Terex several years ago. |
| Atlas Copco | Atlas Copco is a Sweden-based manufacturer mainly of mining equipment and attachment tools for excavators |
| Bauer | Bauer of Schrobenhausen, Germany doesn’t only do drilling and foundation contracting, but also builds, uses and sells drilling machinery. |
| Bell | The machines from Bell of Richards Bay, South Africa are getting more and more popular in the USA and Great Britain. |
| Bobcat | Bobcat, mostly known for its compact equipment, does now bleong to the Ingersoll-Rand Group. |
| Bomag | Bomag offers a wide range of compactors. |
| Brinkmann | Brinkmann produces mixing and conveying solutions for screed and concrete |
| Case | Case is an American manufacturer of construction and farming equipment. |
| Caterpillar | Caterpillar, with its broad range of products seems to have a large market share not only in Nort America and Europe, but worldwide. |
| DAF | DAF is a Dutch truck manufacturer |
| Demarec | Demarec is a Dutch manufacturer of demolition tools |
| Doll | Doll produces various kinds of truck trailers |
| Frutiger | Frutiger is a Swiss manufacturer of scrape dozers which took over the production from Menck |
| Fuchs | Fuchs excavators, painted in a characteristic blue, are well known machines on German construction sites. – As cable-operated excavators in earlier days, nowadays as material handlers. |
| GHH | In 1995, GHH Fahrzeuge emerged from the former “mining and tunneling vehicles” division of the MAN Gutehoffnungshütte and is still producing special vehicles for mining und tunneling today. |
| Goldhofer | Goldhofer is know for its heavy load trailers, self-propelled units and tractors. |
| Gottwald | Gottwald, which used to built large mobile cranes on its own, sold this branch to Demag and is now concentrating on railway and harbour cranes. |
| Gradall | Gradall is a well known American manufacturer of telescopic boom excavtors |
| Grove | Grove is an American manufacturer of mobile cranes that now is part of the Manitowoc Group. |
| Hamm | The German roller manufacturer Hamm now belongs to the Wirtgen Group |
| Hitachi | Hitachie offer a wide range of products of construction equipment. |
| Hyundai | Hyundai is South Korean manufacturer of construction equipment |
| Ingersoll-Rand | From about the mid-nineties until about 2007, Ingersoll-Rand owned several construction equipment manufacturers like Melroe-Bobcat or ABG. In the meantime, Ingersoll-Rand has retired from the construction equipment sector. |
| Iveco | Iveco is an Italian manufacturer of trucks |
| JCB | A manufacturer of small and medium sized construction equipment. |
| John Deere | John Deere is better known for its farming equipment throughout Europe but also offers construction machinery. |
| Kaelble | Kaelble has one of the longest standig history within German producers of construction and heavy haulage equipment. Since several years, Kaelble is part of the Terex corporation. |
| Keestrack | Keestrack is a Belgian manufacturer of screening units and crushers. |
| Kobelco | Kobelco is more active in North America and Asia than in Europe. |
| Kocurek | Kocurek is a British manufacturer of mainly special excavator booms like material handlers and longfront demolition machines. |
| Kögel | Kögel used to make tipper trailers, but seems to have specialised in cargo trailers only now. |
| Komatsu | This Japanese manufacturer offers a broad range of products from compact excavators to huge mining trucks. |
| Kramer | Kramer, a well know German manufacturer of small wheel loaders, merged with Neuson several years ago. |
| Leonard | Leonard specialized in the construction of special equipments, which are used mainly for cleaning blast furnaces. |
| LeTourneau | LeTourneau offers large wheel loaders and forestry machinery. |
| Liebherr | Liebher builds a large offering of machinery in Germany and Austria, ranging from hydraulic excavators to mobile cranes and minig equipment. |
| Link-Belt | Link-Belt construction equipment is better known in North America than in Europe. |
| Mantovanibenne (MBI) | Mantovanibenne is an Italian manufacturer of attachment tools for construction and demolition maschinery. |
| Marini | This Italien manufacturer of paving equipment now belongs to the Fayat group |
| Meiller | Meiller produces mainly tipping equipment for trucks. |
| Menzi Muck | Menzi Muck of Switzerland produces small excavators with a very good rough terrain capability. |
| Moxy | This Norwegian company produces articulated dump trucks |
| Neuson | Neuson is a manufacturer of small excavators, dumpers and similar equipment. |
| New Holland | This American manufacturer offers both farming and construction equipment. |
| Nooteboom | Nooteboom is a Dutch manufacturer of special and heavy haulage trailers. |
| O&K - Mining | The O&K Mining Division (which is offering the largest hydraulic excavator of the world) runs a homepage on its own. |
| Okada | Okada is a Japanese manufacturer of demolition tools |
| Palfinger | Palfinger produces various track attachments like loading cranes, aerial platforms and tail lifts |
| Putzmeister | Putzmeister produces a wide range of concrete pumping equipment. |
| Rimac | Rimac is a small Italian manufacturer of mobile crusher and screens |
| RTG | RTG is part of the Bauer group for foundation equipment and produces mainly machinery for sheet piling. Especially leaders and hydraulic vibrators |
| Rubblemaster | Rubblemaster is a manufacturer of mobile crushers and screens of Austria. |
| Sandvik | Sandvik is a Swedish conglomerate that also produces various mining machines, crushers etc. |
| Sany | Sany is a large Chinese “full liner” manufacturer of construction equipment. |
| Scania | Scania is a Swedish manufacturer of various trucks and lorries |
| Schaeff | Schaeff is a German company that is well known for its small excavators. Meanwhile, it was bought by Terex. |
| Scheuerle | Scheuerle is a German manufacturer of a broad range of heavy haulage equipment. |
| Schörling | Schörling is well known for municipal vehicles. Nowadays, only garbage trucks are still produced. |
| Schwarzmüller | Schwarzmüller produces a great variety of truck trailers and semitrailers. |
| Schwing | Schwing produces concrete distribution equipment like concrete pumps and placing booms. |
| Sennebogen | This company specialised in cranes and material handler |
| Soilmec | Soilmec is an Italian manufacturer of piling and foundation equipment. |
| Spitzer | Spitzer is a manufacturer of silo trailers |
| Stetter | Stetter produces conrete mixing plants and truck mounted concrete mixers |
| Takeuchi | Takeuchi offers compact excavators. |
| Terberg | Terberg is a Dutch manufacturer of special trucks and vehicles |
| Terex | After a changeful history, today companies like O&K Mining and Demag belong to the Terex Group. |
| Terex Demag | Demag, a manufacturer of cranes, does now belong to the Terex Group. |
| Vermeer | Vermeer produces mainly trenching and pipelaying equipment |
| Vögele | Vögele is a well-known manufacturer of paving equipment usually painted in characteristic green. Since a couple of years, Vögele is part of the Wirtgen Group. |
| Volvo | Volvo of Sweden is probably better known for its cars or “normal” trucks, but also offers a complete package of construction equipment. |
| Waitzinger | Waitzinger is a German manufacturer of concrete pumps, concrete placing booms and similar equipment. It was founded in 1991. |
| Waratah | Waratah is an American manufacturer of forestry attachments. |
| Wirtgen | Wirtgen produces special machinery mainly for road construction purposes. |
| Zeppelin | Zeppelin used to offer a wide range of products of its own but seems to concentrate now on the Caterpillar dealership throughout Germany. |
