How to be an Armoured Farmer, building Hobart's Funnies in Glorious 15mm (and maybe 28mm if they arrive in time!)
Building the Small Box Girder Bridge Layer (SBG) cont'd (blimey how much longer?!)
The last bit for the bridge was to attach the A frame. This had predrilled holes for it to fit into on the bank seat beam and in real life is there to act as a fulcrum for the cables that lift and/or lower the bridge into place (more on that in a later post). The white metal was slightly bent in the post but easily straightened out and glued in place. I had decided early on that one of the bridge layers would be built carrying its bridge and the other one left loose so that I could leave it in place in games. As the resin one is very light compared with the SkyTrex version I chose this one to fix to the AVRE. What also helped was the fixing points between the tank and bridge were better, so that I could guarantee a good link between the two. The actual A frame is in two parts and once realised the two sides of the frame would fall off to either side to not impede the use of the bridge. Once the battle had moved on, engineers could come back and remove the frame sections for use on another bridge, or the bridge would be replaced with a more permanent bridge using either Bailey, or other readily available materials (this type of bridging is called NEB (non equipment bridging) and uses such materials as tree trunks & steelwork from nearby buildings etc. to construct a bridge).
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