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Lego Car Transporter Wagon part 4 - cars and sorting out those ramps!


Jongudmund

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I said last time that the final version of the car transporter probably wasn't final because the ramps weren't right. So I went back to them. This was the starting point. (I put the transporter next to another wagon to compare the height.)

 

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But first I also needed two more cars to load onto the transporter. I mentioned this to my wife, Cathy, who went and had a rummage in the Lego boxes and dug out this fire chief's car that she had bought a while ago and not got round to building yet.

 

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It was ideal as it was the right width and looked the right length. As a general rule I tend to build things at least once the way it's meant to be. Then take it apart. I duly built it.

 

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You can see how by not putting on the stickers and taking the light off the roof it could easily pass as a regular car. However, there was a problem. It was a bit long.

 

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It was also too high. The transporter fits convertible cars. The roof had to go. Out came the bits boxes and I rebuilt the back end as well. I also gave it doors from the bits box.

 

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The tan bumpers were from the bits box. I dumped them and gave the car some killer exhausts as well.

 

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The other donor car was a Lego Friends animal ambulance that I had picked up super cheap in a supermarket a couple of months ago (mainly because it had a Lego hedgehog in).

 

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I quite like the Friends kits as they have a different colour palette to most other sets. I had thought when buying it that the bits might be useful. Now I was looking at those pale blue wheel arches thinking, yeah, that could work.

 

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I'm not quite sure what the rear assembly on the white car was meant to be, but I liked the look of it. The windscreen is the rear window from the fire chief's car.

 

I tried all 4 cars on the transporter. They fitted and I was pleased with how it looked.

 

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However, the rear assembly on the white car meant it didn't fit on the lower deck, so I had to junk it. Probably for the best.

 

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I mentioned 'greebling' in my last post. I had some ideas for adding detail along the sides of the wagon using half-length Technic pins, grills and things. I also identified some new pieces to make the hinges.

 

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The 1x1 printed tile is a spare piece from a Nexo Knights set I got given as a birthday present and I thought it would make a nice 'maker's mark' for whichever wagon works made this. Unfortunately, the greebling interfered with the elevator rods preventing them from laying flat when the top deck was collapsed, so I had to scrap this idea. The 1x1 tile worked, though and you can see it in the photo below. Even better, the hinges worked, closing up the gap when the ramps were dropped. I had to mount them differently on either end, but the wagon is asymmetrical anyway, so that didn't matter.

 

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In this photo you can see there isn't much of a gap now for the cars to drive over to get off the ramps.

 

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So, I am finally happy with this. The ramps work. The top deck lays as flat as possible. I may go back to tinker with the white car at some point, or replace it if a cheap set with a 4-stud wide car comes available, but there is no rush for that.

 

Thanks for reading these blog posts. I hope you enjoyed them. I have a couple more to come including news of a new addition to the rolling stock manifest.

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