Car Factory
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MOC: |
90041-1 |
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Pieces: |
1122 |
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Minifigs: |
13 |
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N\A |
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Community rating:
4.7
(7 votes)
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Place:
Poland
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2015, jan 21
Seen:
8d 11h |
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2017, jan 10 10:50 |
Introduction
Unfortunatelly, not many industrial sets appeared in the history of LEGO. If anything, couple of such structures were released in 70s. Gravel depot for example from LEGO-351-1 set. That was still not the building in mini-figure scale, so it is hard to adapt to the city from later years. Nevertheless, all these vehicles, motorcycles, boats or airplanes must be manufactured somewhere, is it not? Bebricton city will have such a structure. I present the car factory adapted to manufacture sedans.
Vehicles
Transport truck with a long trailer is able to transport two sedans.
Chassis transporter is on the left side, from which all production begins. On the right, there are three newly manufactured sedans. Between the buildings you can find one more in the gray version.
Factory supports 13 employees. The chief has a white helmet and black worksuit, next is the accountant, two drivers in caps and a 9-workers. That's enough for the efficient production of up to three cars at a time.
Buildings
Two warehouses are at the front of the factory. On the right side there is a warehouse with steering wheels and car doors.
On the left, however, is a warehouse with windscreens.
Factory
The roof can be opened by raising to the front of the building, so handling machines designed for the production is a bit easier.
The factory has been divided into three stations, between which the vehicles are moved along the rail.
The first station is the assembly of parts. At this point, one of the workers operates a crane, which can simultaneously select two parts and mount them on the chassis.
The next step is to mount the axis with wheels. It is one of the most interesting mechanisms used in this factory. Just put the axis with the wheels on the box, position it under the car and just push it while holding down the chassis. You can see this process in the gallery presenting manufacture of the car.
The last step is the installation of windscreens and the roof.
The car is ready! The vehicle moves at the end on its own wheels and passes final review.
That's all. The vehicles can be loaded on a truck's trailer and transported to any place in the Bebricton city.
The whole detailed process presenting manufacture of the car can be seen in the additional gallery below or by cliking here.
Check out Clabrisic soon for the new industrial part of the Bebricton city, in which the car factory will be located.
Upper view
Unfortunatelly, not many industrial sets appeared in the history of LEGO. If anything, couple of such structures were released in 70s. Gravel depot for example from LEGO-351-1 set. That was still not the building in mini-figure scale, so it is hard to adapt to the city from later years. Nevertheless, all these vehicles, motorcycles, boats or airplanes must be manufactured somewhere, is it not? Bebricton city will have such a structure. I present the car factory adapted to manufacture sedans.
Vehicles
The truck
Transport truck with a long trailer is able to transport two sedans.
Manufactured cars
The workers
Buildings
Two warehouses are at the front of the factory. On the right side there is a warehouse with steering wheels and car doors.
Second warehouse
Warehouse
Windscreen warehouse
Windscreens
Factory
The roof can be opened by raising to the front of the building, so handling machines designed for the production is a bit easier.
The factory
Assembly of parts
Wheels attachment
Assembly of windscreens
The car is ready! The vehicle moves at the end on its own wheels and passes final review.
That's all. The vehicles can be loaded on a truck's trailer and transported to any place in the Bebricton city.
Assembly of parts
Check out Clabrisic soon for the new industrial part of the Bebricton city, in which the car factory will be located.
Sceneries with this set included:
BrickSet 90041 Car Factory gallery
Upper view
The tires and rims
The office
Windscreen warehouse
Windscreen warehouse
Transport truck
Windscreens
Lights
Lights
Second warehouse
Chassis transpoter
Chassis transpoter
Warehouse
Warehouse
The factory
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Comments
2017, jan 15 10:57
Very interesting creation! I'm fond of the way you built the mechanism
to build the cars! It's a very cleaver solution, and I'm sure it would
be a very good play feature if it would have been realeased as a set. In
a personnal version, I would not have put so much machines and robots,
it would have been mostly workers who assembles cars. But now you found
an efficient system, I think I will inspire for a further creation. :)
I see you got some old parts like 10x20 baseplates, old windows and 1x5x4 doors (newer version), it looks good. Just a little question, why all windows has different colored blinds, it brakes a bit the nice harmony of the white and red color scheme of the building. And for the small warehouses, I would have liked a "typical industrial roof" better than a plain and flat roof. The car carrier truck could also have been two storeys, I've made a version a while ago on 1966 set base, but never built it. Another possible improvement could have been to link the factory to the rail network to carry cars farer than in Bebrickton :) . I like the small vehicle that carries the car chassis, I'm thinking about a similar vehicle to carry rails or beams in a steel factory. In conclusion, very good beginning for an industrial zone! I hope seeing the rest of the layout. | |
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2017, jan 15 11:54
Hello Evans, thanks for your thoughts :)
I've got an old incomplete 50 set, which was and old version of house from 70s with big figures. I found there couple of those nice big doors, which I could use here. The windows - I have limited amount of them, but to be honest I could mix it with windows from houses - I can see it now. Typical industrial roof as I understand you mean a sloped one. I would need to use lots of sloped bricks to make it here or to try using some hinges to bend it in half. It could be problematic, as I have made it openable. I think the flat will be ok in this case. I was thinking about two-storey trailer, but I thought it will be too much. It is a good thought after all, I'll probably make such a truck some day. When it comes to mechanisms, I am pretty happy with what I've got. It is pretty playable, especially the assembly of axles with wheels is smooth and easy. The Bebricton industrial zone is almost finished, but the car factory will be the main element. I have an idea for brick factory which will be also present and the space is getting filled :) Thanks for your comment, I appreciate your guides. It always helps in further creations. I am waiting to see your steel factory in custom sets :) Greetings! |
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