This is a bridge that i made last month, it probaby cost me in about £8 to make.

I will have to store it until i have an idea of a dio to make.

Basically made from plastic, balsa wood and fast food wooden sticks







just needs painting.

comments welcomed

Well done Gary!
Looks perfect to me


Cheers
Claude

Looks great....paint it and weather it a little to look faded , add a little bit of rust here and there an voila . You can use that bridge on almost anything as it is a common steel bridge.

Pretty Cool
the girders are a Smidge small but no big deal.
l would add a middle pier in the diorama

thanks for the comments Claude and Alfred.

Scott you are right they are a smidge too small. I tried a few tanks and realised the girders are not high enough, I will have to use tanks with a lower profile. I will put middle girders on when I decide to reserect it from storage

regards

gazza

Looks really good so far. As you said, the framework is not quite high enough for that scale. Roof truss work needs to tie the two sides together to make the design stable. If the tank is 1/35, then 1/48 would probably look pretty good on it.
Cheers for recreational engineering!
Rick

Consider this.....not all bridges were so constructed to be strong enough for tanks. Most were used for cars trucks and horse drawn wagons. Keep this bridge just like it is and maybe make another one a little more sturdy for tanks. I have a diorama with a small bridge and just before it I have a side road cutoff with a sign on it reading.....tanks and tracked vehicles take detour to pontoon bridge. Hey , you just cant have enough bridges... ........Al.....Hey Gary , I took a minute to look at your gallery. Really nice dios.

Thats a good use for a Visa-card when you have bought way to many models.

Cheers

Good use of an old credit card, now what's in your wallet? Your bridge is real nifty,

thanks for the coments guys!!!

I thinks that SWMBO will be glad that i cut the VISA Card, comes in handy though when you cannot find suitable platic.

reagrds
gaz

I was thinking along similar lines as Alfred. Have the bridge for trucks and jeep traffic. Maybe have a loaded down Sherman or other tank parked at one end of the bridge. Crew is looking at a map, maybe with a MP as they look for a detour. Maybe add insult to injury by having a jeep being waved through.

Bridge looks good. Given some of your other stuff, it'll be interesting to see what you do here.

i HAVE TOOK UP MY BRIDGE PROJECT AFTER SOMETIME AND HERE ARE SOME PROGRESS SHOT.

HOWEVER THIS BRIDGE IS NOT BUILT TO SIZE, JUST FOR FUN AND BUILT TO IMPROVE MAY SCRATCHING BUILDING SKILLS











This will have british infantry and 2 vehicles on the bridge





comments welcome

Real nice nice work Gary! Definitely worth watching the process. Thank you for sharing.

--mike

Ah, Tamiya infantry. They are a sound basis for conversions and upgrades!! Nice paintjob too!!!

And I definitely like that bridge!!

Well done Sir!!

Cheers

Romain

The bridge was sponsored by Visa!

Good work by the way.

Cheers,
Tom

Hi Gary,

Bridges come in all shapes and sizes to fit the need, so I wouldn't worry to much about that. The only thing that looks a little too big are the side walkways. Have you decided how and what you will mount it on?

Looks like a fun project.

Al

THANKS FOR THE COMMENTS SO FAR, i DONT MAKE BIG DIO'S WAS i HAVE NOT GOT MUCH ROOM, BUT THIS IS MY BIGGEST SO FAR....


AL = THE WALK WAY ARE GOING TO HAVE THE FIGURES WALKING ACROSS







THE TANK RIDERS ARE MINI ART, I WAS DISAPPONITED ON THE MOULDING/DEATIL AS THEY WERE NOT SHARP AND JUST SOFT. THE DETAIL ARE NO WERE NEAR AS GOOD AS THE TAMIYA MOULDS AND THEY ARE FAIRLY OLD

Here are a couple more progress shots.

Water to add and then vehicles and personnel.








commments welcome

that looks awesome!!

Hi Gary,

the whole scene looks just fine....but I have my doubts about stability when it comes to the Churchill!!!
Maybe a Staghound or a halftrack would have been safer

Cheers

Romain

I have finished this dio. I have messed up the water display, any suggestions on how to put it right are welcomed.

Someone spoke earlier of adding a central pier. Normally that would not be appropriate for a bridge of this design, however, in a wartime setting it was often necessary to have a team of engineers add a steel or wooden central pier to reinforce this bridge for the heavy armored traffic it was about to be subjected to.

Also you would want to lay two lengths of boards to spread the weight of the vehicles over a larger area of the floor decking.

I would not concern yourself with the absence of top bridging across the roadway between the two trusses. Some designs for the Warren truss bridge did not have cross bracing if they were intended for light loads such as horse and wagon and early autos.

Gary,

Very good work sir!

Your armor is top-notch, too!

Not exactly the same situation but all are examples of similar forms of wartime construction methods in both wood and steel I-beam:

Hi Gary

Regarding your water, it depends of course how much do you want to invest in the diorama.
Looking at your water, I would simply cover it all with a sand/earth mix and model a new stream on top.
The result will then look like my river


I used Envirotex for the water and my home made waves on top. Other products should also work on top of the earth base and may not be so expensive.

Claude