Hi all

After all the great info regarding bridge construction i got up early day off to day ,lol lol and stated.
I had purchased some foam from A C Mores.
I intend to cover in plaster of paris was going to use cork but could not see any thin enough will smouth out the paris and then carve the stine in relief.
I wont to also create some battle damage to the side walls and the the front part.
I intend to use a mixture of figures Shenandoah Mins and a number of others to break up the uniformity.
I have used a figure to create scale a little tip that Cheyanne posted.
Any feed back would be great, i have not done the bridge in full size there would be another arch and another flared entrance would be a little on the big side, i think some one said that the walls of the bridge were hollow and filled with earth and from what i saw on a diorama bridge of the same thing there was wood on the bridge in stead of coping stones,perhaps they were put on after the war when the bridge was repaired any info would be great.
Cheers Chris

Hi Tango20,
I'm affraid I can't help you with any building tips but as for the bridge its -self check out this site - there is a couple of photos of a stone build 3 arch bridge.

They are very clear and sharp images.

http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/burnside-bridge.htm

Looking closly at the pic it does appear that the bridge is hallow with either a wooden or stone cap-stone.

Good luck.

For cork go to your local Target - in the office section they have a roll of it for $8 - $10. TONS of it.
I believe its about 2mm thick

Hi Guys

Thanks for the feed back really getting into this,early days yet but will post some progress pics.
Cheers Guys

I'll toss this out too - based on the foam you used I'd go with a resin type of glue. AC Moores has a one part tube that would be good. I don't know if white glue would be good enough.
Oh - re-reading your 1st post raised a question. Are you going to put p of p on first then 'squish' the cork on?
I had good success with gluing the cork pieces on then filling in the gaps with spackle....

From what I have seen I have to agree with the dirt filled technique on the 1:1. I've seen a few of that era bridges that were like that. Don't know about the wood.

Hi Scott
Yea i made a post in figs about 54m figs and another member posted a diorama bridge of Burnsides Bridge by Hussar iam trying to post the image.
If not have a look and tell me if iam wrong but it looks like it has wood only on one side perhaps my eyes are going...lol Cheers Chris
://www.thehussar.com/%5Cimages%5Ckandc%5Csp05.

Hi Chris,
From this photo it sure looks like wood

George

Some pictures of the bridge I took a few years ago. It is stone...

Shaun







Hope this helps...

This wood are "snow covers" , Here in Belgium they put them up for not collecting any snow, they did 50 years ago :-) . Underneath there's offcourse, stone.

Q