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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2013 20:37:42 GMT -8
As AUTOart produces its replicas? ( Click the link below to check out the pictures )This week the manufacturer AUTOart , which produces some of the most beautiful and detailed replicas of cars, posted on his Facebook page a little about their secrets of how their production, including values. For those not familiar with industrial information, the data can be shocking, and help us to understand a bit about the challenges of the production of these cars we love so much. They say that to produce just one model in 1/18 scale, the costs are between 100 and 200 thousand dollars, depending on the complexity and number of replica of components. This, of course, is the cost of manufacturing in China. If it were in a developed country (U.S. or Europe), the costs would double or triple, since labor costs are much higher. A mold of a car in 1/18 scale consists of 20 to 30 small and large blocks of iron, and the most complicated and largest iron block (which can weigh a ton) is what is used to shape the body Miniature since it involves a whole three-dimensional structure of the mold. It takes around a year to get engineering to produce a set of iron molds for just a model. Once the molds are made, liquid metal is injected with high pressure into the mold cavity by an injection molding machine. Each mold can produce over a million copies and his life is quite high, and this is the cheapest and most economical to produce miniatures lot. This process is used by all major manufacturers of miniatures world. The production of iron with these molds can only be justified when producing a high quantity of products. If only produced hundreds of units of the same model, only the cost of the molds will increase from $ 40 per car, and this might derail the entire production. This panorama production shown by AUTOart makes us understand a little better the complexities of producing large-scale miniatures. Makes us think for example that a manufacturer like Mattel (Hot Wheels and Matchbox), Greenlight, M2, Maisto, etc, need to have a very well planned and coordinated to get produce millions of miniatures, pack and ship to worldwide with a final price of a few dollars, and still make a profit. Every little problem in production, or at some time or the development of logistics, can mean a huge loss, since the costs are calculated with little margin for error. This helps explain why we see increasingly more expensive miniatures in less detail. t-hunted.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2013-08-30T12:00:00-03:00&max-results=20 |
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