LEGO Technic 42038 Arctic Truck

LEGO Technic set 42038, “Arctic Truck”, depicts a utility vehicle intended for an arctic setting.

Set 42038 presents an arctic vehicle as a working machine rather than a conventional road car. Within Technic, it belongs with specialized vehicles where the frame, body shaping and visible construction methods are central to the model, instead of a character driven scene.

The set contains 913 pieces and is fully focused on the vehicle.

Arctic Truck suits builders who want a self contained Technic model with a clear polar service vehicle identity. On display, it fits beside other specialized machines from the same theme. For play, it provides a sturdy vehicle format for handling, limited to the functions and movement actually provided by the built model.

Inventory of set 42038

The inventory of set 42038 lists 913 pieces, spare parts excluded: 130 different lots (one shape in one color) for 114 part shapes. The box also contains 11 spare parts, for small elements that are easy to lose.

Colors of set 42038

Main color: black, making up 49% of the parts, followed by light bluish gray (17%) and blue (11%).

Part types

Most common parts in set 42038

110 of the 114 part shapes in this set have their own page on Setopedia, with their colors, element numbers and the other sets that use them. See all LEGO parts

Exclusive parts in set 42038

One part shape in set 42038 appears in no other set in the catalog, most often a printed element, a sticker or a mold specific to the model. If it gets lost, you will need to look for it individually, for example on BrickLink, rather than in another set.

Rebuilding set 42038 from another set

Share of the parts of set 42038 found in each of these similarly sized sets, counting shape, colour and quantity:

Set 42069 Extreme Adventure supplies 66% of them: enough to build a good part of the model before filling in the rest piece by piece.

Size of set 42038 within its line

With 913 pieces, set 42038 ranks #110 out of 443 Technic sets in our database, which have an average of 658 parts. Among the 448 sets released in 2015, it ranks #26.