Hi all,
Since my earlier post https://armorama.kitmaker.net/forums/65390&page=1 I still managed to just keep working on this project without doing others in between. progress is slow (way too slow for me but there's still progress) this is how it looks now:


My first try at scratching the M4T6 pontoons:


more pics can be seen here:
http://home.planet.nl/~heesw121/Erection%20Boat.htm

CommComments, tips and hint are very welcome,

kind regards
Mark

Hi Mark,

Very nice job on these. They are looking great. I have a question for you though. What material did you use for the pontoons and how did you shape it so perfectly?

Regards
Matt

Excellant work here. I am looking forward to seing more of your in-progress pics as you get it done. Thanks for sharing.

Hi guys,
Thanks for your reactions! I appreciate it and I'll keep you informed. The pontoons are made of plaster. I made a mold to cast all 12 tubes needed to make 4 pontoons (3 tubes each). I have no (not yet) experience with resin so I thought plaster (a hard variety) would be a good alternative.

kind regards
Mark

Nice build Mark, what did you use to dress up the Zodiac pontoon with [ and the stitching ] ?
The first garvy looking boat is excellent, all in plastics ?
Once again nice work - Cheyenne

Beautiful will really love to see this one in a diorama

Thanks guys!
The bridge boat is scratch build all in plastic, the pontoons (part of the M4T6 floating bridge system) are cast in plaster (no resin experience yet). Plastic on top with lead foil rivets . The x-stitching is cut from mesh used to keep bugs out of your house (makes sense?) cut at an angle (45 degree) and handled with care because the x's are hardly attatched to eachother.
It will sure be in a diorama but I'm trying to finish the bridge boat for the Welcome to the Nam campaign (and then go on with the rest, still a lot of work to do)

kind regards
Mark

Hi mark, I am currebtly restoring three of these bridge erection boats to commercial survey in Australia. Do you have any information at all on these boats and if so is it possible to get this information from you?

Regards
David

Hi David

All I have on this boat are pictures, if you want them just drop me a pm and give me your email-adress and I'll send you all I have on it.

Kind regards
Mark