I will shortly be posting a new article by Werner (tankbuster) on his Churchill AVRE tank.

Churchill AVRE Conversion

As usual if you have comments or questions please post them here.

Thanks Werner! And tell Wolfram that he has outdone himself on these pics. Most excellent! (as is your tank!)

Cheers,
Jim

Werner,
True to fashion...another excellent piece of work. You provide great inspiration for us all! I love the way the tracks have been 'muddied' up.

Werner, A fantastic job on the AVRE!! Quite a conversion which looks great.
Thanks for posting the great article.

Fantastic!! Otto

Werner,

Very nice work

Only a small comment about a phrase in the article:



Acording to my sources the bobbins had a strong reinforced canvas and are deployed by the tank for itself and the following ones could move in some of the beaches where the ground it's too soft for them.

Werner--Danke. Great job as always.
DJ

I hope everyone is going all the way to the END of the article. That's where all the finished pics are.

Really I don't understand why this article has been read so much less than others. Is the Churchill that disliked??



Jim

No Jim. I was stuck at work for the past month and am now just discovering it!

Very, very nice job Werner! I love it's ugliness so much it's beautiful. Really!

I've always found the Churchill interesting. I have a couple 1/72 AVRE's with small box-girder bridges, an AMRCR, a Mk. 7, a Mk. 1 and a Mk. 2CS. If you want, its not impossible to make the full AVRE family. A facine carrier would be an easy mod for the old Matchbox AVRE and once you got the framework for the bobbin made, the matting wouldn't be hard to do---just check your local fabric shop, same for material for netting and base for hessian.
It would be nice if someone out there in the world made detail parts to help us out some with small scale mods and conversions. I'm looking for 2 sets of production air intakes to graft onto a Hasagawa Mk. 1 and a Mk. 2CS for a Deippe diorama without having to cannibilize from other kits.

hi

may i say it is finished very nicely but!!

to be correct.
the main two points i have on the tank are :- (1) you have forgot to include the sliding Loaders hatch . this is where the Petard was loaded.

(2) no AVRE that i have seen photographs or from crew man or my farther would ever fit a tool box on the rear everything was tied on the rear. main reason was because of fitting of the winch. some stowage boxes were fitted here but they had two "u" shape bits of metal which went in to the grills.


historic notes.
designed by Lt Deneveon Candian ME Company after the failure of Dieppie.
the Petard was always called a flying Dustbin or Petard.
a Wade Charge is a seperate charge stowed in side in the pannier doors to which the crew would climb out & attach to a obsticale to be destroyed.

the fixings on the side are the CIRD fittings used as rightly said for attaching differant equipments. these were not fitted to Italian AVRE's,

nice looking model ossie

I never saw the feature....pity really as it is truly brilliant.....Jim

woah cool thats the churchill thats on my british tanks rule tshirt.!!!!

cooool nice piece of work!

I first read this article as I see in the Dutch forum translating the Dutch article to English,glad to see the original now . The built ,the article and translation was all great :-)
congrats Werner and Juul.

Now finishing my Churchill Crocodile , the mudding tracks work has been usefull to me and i have seen this article time ago . Very good work

good article as resicast do a conversion for it as well and I think cromwell are supposed to be doing one Legend also has a conversion kit as well thinking of doing one got 3 churchhill tucked away and needing built!