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How to be an Armoured Farmer, building Hobart's Funnies in Glorious 15mm (and maybe 28mm if they arrive in time!)

How to be an Armoured Farmer, building Hobart's Funnies in Glorious 15mm (and maybe 28mm if they arrive in time!)

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AVRE Bobbin

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The bobbin AVRE was predominately for D Day only and came out of the lessons learnt during the ill-fated Dieppe raid. Tanks struggled on loose, or soft ground, so they came up with a way to lay a carpet that would span the soft ground and allow the vehicles exiting the beach a safe route. There were many different varieties of layer trialled and the full width version was selected. There were two types of this layer, the type C and type D. Both of these variants were used on D Day.

Type D variant.

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