Testing a 1/16 wooden bridge
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Posted: Sunday, January 01, 2006 - 06:44 PM UTC
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Posted: Sunday, January 01, 2006 - 06:55 PM UTC
Looks good mate, but comon, i know you were tempted just to ram into it and try and smash that basla wood to pieces! :-)
Cheers, keep us posted on how this bridge see's use, and how your Pershing is coming along.
Upon Being asked why he was being pushed back by a "Comonwealth" division at El Alamein, Rommel replied,
"it is not a Commonwealth division, it is an Australian Division, why, give me 2 Australian Divisions and i will conquer the world for you!"
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Posted: Sunday, January 01, 2006 - 06:56 PM UTC
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Posted: Sunday, January 01, 2006 - 06:57 PM UTC
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Looks good mate, but comon, i know you were tempted just to ram into it and try and smash that basla wood to pieces! :-)
Cheers, keep us posted on how this bridge see's use, and how your Pershing is coming along.
Mate, 1 hour ago you said you were going to bed....you're addicted to Armorama lol
Oh and I did ram the side of the bridge (first time driving over the bridge - pretty narrow with the tank) but it was strong enough lol.
Martin
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Posted: Sunday, January 01, 2006 - 08:08 PM UTC
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Hi all,
This bridge has been build by a fellow member of the RC tank club Battle Tanks Nederland (BTN). It's made out of wood without using 1 nail etc, just glue. Still the construction is very very strong, I bet it can take multiple tanks at the same time!
Of course we had to test the bridge to come to this conclusion and that's what we did this morning. The bridge had no problem at all with my Pershing. Here are some pics:
Martin
Martin,
Great looking bridge, is it possible to get the plans from you??
Tanks
Andy
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Posted: Sunday, January 01, 2006 - 08:12 PM UTC
I will ask Adrie if he has something usefull!
Martin
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Posted: Sunday, January 01, 2006 - 08:17 PM UTC
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I will ask Adrie if he has something usefull!
Martin
Thanks, it looks great and would be a neat addition to my little battle setup.
Tanks
Andy
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Posted: Sunday, January 01, 2006 - 09:10 PM UTC
Hmmmm, dressing your tank as a Christmas tree, and driving on a wooden bridge with a Pershing tank...
I guess your engeneers did a proper
MLC classification before you crossed it? :-)
However, great looking bridge, and nice pics. It seems like your RC club is a busy one.
Cheers
Erik
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Posted: Sunday, January 01, 2006 - 09:17 PM UTC
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I will ask Adrie if he has something usefull!
Martin
Thanks, it looks great and would be a neat addition to my little battle setup.
Tanks
Andy
Andy, i don't have plans of the bridge. I made the bridge of pictures i have got from a german website.
I can send you his pictures if you like.
You can watch the following thread
http://www.battletanksnederland.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=672 It's in dutch but maybe the pictures are usefull to you.
Adrie
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Posted: Sunday, January 01, 2006 - 09:31 PM UTC
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Hmmmm, dressing your tank as a Christmas tree, and driving on a wooden bridge with a Pershing tank...
I guess your engeneers did a proper MLC classification before you crossed it? :-)
However, great looking bridge, and nice pics. It seems like your RC club is a busy one.
Cheers
Erik
Lol no sorry, driving over the bridge was the big test
Martin
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Posted: Monday, January 02, 2006 - 01:38 AM UTC
I would suggest the following MLC classification
:-)
Adrie
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Posted: Monday, January 02, 2006 - 02:26 AM UTC
Good one, Adrie. BTW welcome to the Big A. Lots of friendly people and excellent model builders here.
Cheers
Erik
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Posted: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 - 05:39 PM UTC
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I will ask Adrie if he has something usefull!
Martin
Thanks, it looks great and would be a neat addition to my little battle setup.
Tanks
Andy
Andy, i don't have plans of the bridge. I made the bridge of pictures i have got from a german website.
I can send you his pictures if you like.
You can watch the following thread http://www.battletanksnederland.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=672
It's in dutch but maybe the pictures are usefull to you.
Adrie
Adrie,
I sent you a PM with my email address. I would love to have any pictures that you can send me of your bridge.
Tanks
Alien
Ontario, Canada
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Posted: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 - 09:02 PM UTC
Martin:
Thanks for the heads up on this, this sound like something I can handle, if I can snag enough wood to complete the task. I'd prefer to get bigger pieces and rip my own smaller pieces, but alas, don't know anyone with a table-saw.
And the reference pages on the build will be a great help... just gotta figure out the dutch-english translations to assemble my 'plans'.
That and keeping the blasted cats off it until I'm done. They get into everything (including eating the lichen off my BattleTech displays)
WhiteWolf McBride
Ontario, Canada
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Posted: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 - 11:23 PM UTC
If you need help with translating, give me a call
Martin
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Posted: Thursday, January 05, 2006 - 01:31 AM UTC
WhiteWolf
If you give me a PM with your e-mail i can send you the pictures of the German bridge i had as example
Adrie
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Posted: Saturday, January 07, 2006 - 03:14 PM UTC
Adrie:
I got your images from the zips, and they will be ~very~ helpful when I get around to playing engineer and building the bridge for my tanks (and any others who join me in making a local club)
Are you going to take a shot at some other designs? One I thought might deserve attention (being one of the Allies) is the Pegasus Bridge near Ouistreham.
I'm not sure if there are any more small famous ones, but the ones along the Market-Garden assault route (aka Hell's Highway) might be OK, but the Nijmegen and Arnhem ones are a tad large, wouldn't you agree?
WhiteWolf McBride
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Posted: Monday, January 09, 2006 - 02:40 PM UTC
I have no other plans concerning to build a bridge in the near future. But hell one may never now. :-)
I'am now focussing to build my Tamiya Pershing and the Kübel of my son.
Martinn is finishing the camo of the Kúbel soon, then i will rebuild it to proportional RC.
Adrie
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Posted: Monday, January 09, 2006 - 02:53 PM UTC
huh me?
lol no just kidding......I'll paint it ASAP
Martin
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