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Title: Building site
Post by: David on January 06, 2019, 07:42 pm
Just started work on a building site, yes I'm building a building site!

Well here's a first few pics, will post more as it develops.

Title: Re: Building site
Post by: Patrick on January 06, 2019, 08:28 pm
Looks great. I picked up a wheelbarrow in the traffic lights xtra pack recently that would be perfect on site.
Title: Re: Building site
Post by: John on January 07, 2019, 12:42 am
Shovels,wheelbarrows  and hand tools to be replaced by diggers ,dumpers  and pneumatic tools  ,hope this development gets completed before The Bust
Title: Re: Building site
Post by: lisaloveslego on January 07, 2019, 10:38 pm
Loving the SNOT work!!
Title: Re: Building site
Post by: David on January 08, 2019, 08:25 am
@Patrick, will include the minifig builders at the end. Pretty sure I have a wheelbarrow somewhere so will try to dig it out!

@John, pneumatic tools a good idea to speed things up.

@Lisa, thanks, glad you liked it.

Small update.. 2nd level pretty much completed, just don't walk too close to the edge.
Title: Re: Building site
Post by: Patrick on January 08, 2019, 09:40 am
It's looking great David.Love the stacked up columns at the side.  Construction could be a theme for January MOCs.  Time to get working on the important parts of the site; canteen, site office ... porta potty :)
Title: Re: Building site
Post by: David on January 08, 2019, 09:26 pm
@Patrick, portaloo, now that's a bit of a luxury in my city.

A splash of colour... but don't worry not for long.

Title: Re: Building site
Post by: John on January 08, 2019, 10:36 pm
Hope this site isn't courtesy of a well known Dublin landmark
Title: Re: Building site
Post by: David on January 09, 2019, 09:40 am
@John, no, it's safe.. for now

Put a road in to get in supplies quicker! Have to act fast before the bust..


Title: Re: Building site
Post by: David on January 09, 2019, 10:47 pm
The council finished the road and planted a tree tonight (good luck seeing such efficiency IRL) and the contractor has started to construct a tower crane. Somewhat chicken before the egg on this one...

Riser extended and hoarding put up to hide all the health and safety breaches from view. Found a nice blue door I got way back in 2007 or so with the 7905 crane (http://www.peeron.com/inv/sets/7905-1) so a portaloo may just sneak in. Running out of space though..



Title: Re: Building site
Post by: Patrick on January 10, 2019, 09:03 am
Who would have though a building site would look so cool?!  Great job David.
Title: Re: Building site
Post by: John on January 10, 2019, 09:16 am
There's a building site fire set out now ,designed to be frank slender friendly hope this site attains its accident free day count

Title: Re: Building site
Post by: wallyjarek on January 10, 2019, 12:27 pm
Interesting, something different then usual.
Title: Re: Building site
Post by: David on January 14, 2019, 08:35 am
Thank you Patrick. John, with all this concrete I'm not sure how a fire could take hold but where there's a will...

Did some 'work' on the site over the weekend. Hoarding revamped to make it look more wooden (painted white) and what's intended to look like reinforced concrete in the making (the protruding brown bars).

Also added in some temporary support beams.

Currently working on a tower crane. Haven't made one before (with exception of the 7905 set) so a bit of research was needed. The operator's cab is not yet in place but it will hang from the side which is common to see although LEGO tend not to do it in their sets. Have to locate a suitable window before I can work on it.

I wanted the counter weight to look like concrete slabs as they tend to be such but LEGO's weight is a black brick but LEGO bricks on their own don't add sufficient weight so in the end I packed my grey slabs with metal nails. The black LEGO weight comes in at 50g with my grey weight around 60g.

And finally, started building a cement mixer. I'll try to duplicate it at some point and have two lined up on the road.

It's all still a WIP but getting there. I need to dig out construction workers to help finished it off.
Title: Re: Building site
Post by: John on January 14, 2019, 07:10 pm
A six wide truck would deliver more concrete, love the re-bar poking out ,get that graffiti kid to vandalise the boards too
Title: Re: Building site
Post by: Patrick on January 14, 2019, 09:14 pm
A six wide truck would deliver more concrete, love the re-bar poking out ,get that graffiti kid to vandalise the boards too

Completely agree John.  Here's one for you David ... in the Cork colours too :)
Title: Re: Building site
Post by: David on January 14, 2019, 09:16 pm
lol

I can't deny that big trucks can look good six wide. That said ... 4 wide are better!
Title: Re: Building site
Post by: conor on January 17, 2019, 09:59 pm
This is awesome. Love the progress pics.
Title: Re: Building site
Post by: David on January 22, 2019, 10:44 pm
Thanks Conor.

And here's a little further update.

Did some work on the crane and finally added a cab with operator. Needs some work as somewhat dangerous with no back wall!

Added a waste shoot with skip and some safety barriers to some of the floors and found a use for some yellow LEGO rubber bands I came across somewhere I can't  remember.

I built a microscale version of what the building is supposed to look like when built so I could make an advertising billboard. The print quality isn't great but I'm happy enough with the effect. Would like to find a way of printing better quality stickers though! Will do a version 2 in any case as the number of square studs office area is 3350 (I did the maths after!).

Well hope you like progress. I'll post some more pictures when I do some changes.
Title: Re: Building site
Post by: John on January 22, 2019, 11:49 pm
This model could be for real architects ,suspicious of this 
Title: Re: Building site
Post by: Patrick on January 24, 2019, 03:33 pm
Love it!  i really like the skip ... tempted to go dumpster diving ;-)

What are you using for printing your stickers btw?  Is it just avery type labels?  Would like to print some off but I find they are nasty to bricks!
Title: Re: Building site
Post by: David on January 25, 2019, 08:45 am
@John you'll change your mind when you find out that no space has been allocated for a lift or stairs, never mind fire escape!

@Patrick, yes, using Avery ones. So I take it you get bad residue with these if you need to take them off? I haven't used them before so have no experience with any problems it might result in the long run. I would hope there is some way to wash any residue away if needed but might involve some liquid solution..
Title: Re: Building site
Post by: David on January 30, 2019, 08:00 am
Small update..

Tweaked the hoarding (new blue paint) and added more wooden posts so its stronger.

Added a few baseplates (16x48) to allow for a new section of roofed hoarding to protect passing by minifigs (how thoughtful!). Also enabled me to extend the main road, include a pedestrian crossing and make a small cul-de-sac lane which will be useful for construction vehicles/portacabin.

Hope to finish it off tonight. Main challenge now will be to break into some of the floors (it's not modular) and add in headlight bricks to allow for minifigures to be posed walking. Should've done this during the build and it will be a bit of a pain.. life lessons..

Well overall hope these are improvements.
Title: Re: Building site
Post by: Patrick on January 30, 2019, 11:56 am
Really like the improvements.  Any chance of a close up of the inside of the roofed hoarding?  Just want to see how its all connected.
Title: Re: Building site
Post by: Taylorbrick on January 30, 2019, 06:37 pm
This is a fantastic moc soooo much detail in this. Love it.
Title: Re: Building site
Post by: David on January 30, 2019, 10:54 pm
Thanks Taylorbrick, glad you like it!

@Patrick, sure. This image should show you how it's put together (poorly). The roof is connected on one side and rests on the other. Nice a flimsy, accident friendly, insurance company unfriendly. On the other hand the side panels fix snugly into the empty 1x1 brick hole.

As regards roof strength let's just say I wouldn't suggest figs jump up and down on it.
Title: Re: Building site
Post by: Patrick on January 30, 2019, 11:00 pm
Thanks David. I couldn’t figure out how the side panels were connected to the posts ... and they’re not!  I need to look at your snot road technique. Opens up a world of possibilities.
Title: Re: Building site
Post by: David on January 31, 2019, 01:31 pm
So it's more or less finished now.

Made some final changes and just added some figures and scenes.

As always there's room to add some more bits and I'll likely make a second cement mixer and maybe a more 'streamlined' 4-wide version of Patrick's neat tipper truck for the rubble. I would like to try to print a couple of small Post No Bills poster on the hoardings and see how they look and pick up some more Dark Blue Grey fences and this (https://www.bricklink.com/SL/30357-1.jpg) little decorated tile which would have been perfect as the safety warning at the right of the hoarding door. I do actually also need to put in a hoarding wall along the back which is bad news for my depleted supply of white tiles.

Just to note, I did experiment with some scaffolding but due to the dimensions of the footpath and building it would have had to be 3-wide to fit and so after some attempts I abandoned it as it didn't really look good. Might see if a better one can be added in somewhere else in future but I suspect it better try on another building site.

Any critiques, suggestions and comments welcome. Hope  you enjoyed the updates as much as I had sharing them.


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The construction company logo is the jumping frogs. Just because its a blue tile.


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I might look to replace these shoots with a white or another colour version at some point, just to add a splash of colour, not that LBG is bad or anything


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Would like the 1x1x2 cylinders used for the streetlights not to have cutouts...


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Fixed the previously inaccurate future office area and modded the microscale version for this new advert.


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Company logo


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Finally can get that Welder to work! Also you can look down the dry riser.


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Practical joker?


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Fact. All tower crane operators end up with glasses due to eye strain despite in cabin cameras. Just made that up..


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The view from above. Please make sure your figs are not afraid of heights before looking down.
Title: Re: Building site
Post by: John on February 01, 2019, 06:09 pm
Everything is awesome except for the 4wide truck, it has a modular set feel to it ,could work well with the hospital set and play out some current affairs, better moc  a courthouse!
Title: Re: Building site
Post by: Patrick on February 01, 2019, 06:42 pm
Everything is awesome except for the 4wide truck ...

LMAO

6 wide I tells ya 😜