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Brian Eberle (Scale Sapper)
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M48A5 AVLB

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14 18 March 2020, 20:35
Marcus J
Awesome project and nice build, mate. 👍 Where did you get the detailed info for the inside parts of the Bridge from?
19 March 2020, 17:05
Brian Eberle
I found some walk around photographs as a starting point, then I went the technical manual for both the bridge and the launcher & chassis. Very good resources. I also have some first hand experience with combat engineer vehicles that helped to know what wasn't correct. Research gave me the missing details.
19 March 2020, 18:42
Brian Eberle
TM 5-5420-202-10 LAUNCHER, M48A5 TANK CHASSIS
NSN 5420-01-076-6096 (EIC: ARE)
19 March 2020, 18:45
Brian Eberle
TM 5-5420-203-14 BRIDGE, ARMORED-VEHICLE LAUNCHED:
SCISSORING TYPE CLASS 60 & CLASS 70, ALUMINUM, 60 FOOT SPAN
19 March 2020, 18:46
Brian Eberle
Prime Portal has been a great resource for many of my builds. There are multiple AVLB walk-around photo essays of AVLBs and many other vehicles found here. primeportal.net/the_battlefield_armor.htm
19 March 2020, 18:49
Marcus J
Thank you Brian. 👍
20 March 2020, 09:34
Black Baron
Following
28 March 2020, 13:57
Neuling
Me too.
16 April 2020, 09:49
Tim Heimer
Wow!
15 May 2020, 05:17
Treehugger
Impressive diorama 🙂 "70" km/h is that the speed limit? 😄
15 May 2020, 08:56
Brian Eberle
70 is the military load class (MLC) of the bridge. How much weight it can support. Measured in short tons (2,000lbs per ton). 140,000lbs. This bridge was recently upgraded (reinforced bracing) from MLC 60 - thus the newer color on the 70.
15 May 2020, 11:05
Brian Eberle
The latest set of pictures are now up. Finished the figures and stowage. A few final items to do and then a little light dusting. Building a custom acrylic case top for this. An unusual set of dimensions. The figures were challenging - faces in 1/35 scale is not a strength of mine. Scratchbuilt the camouflage system net and pole bags. After market lifts don't make these correctly.
27 May 2020, 20:48
Rui S
Impressive work, Very Well done 👍
27 May 2020, 21:45
Neuling
I agree with Rui. 👍
17 December 2020, 09:36
Tierra del Fuego Alejandro
tremendous
15 March 2023, 01:13
Michael Kohl
There are too little bridge layers around here! Great to see yours. Good tank, great bridge.
15 March 2023, 09:50
Villiers de Vos
Very nice work. Beautiful presentation.
16 March 2023, 07:21
bossy122
That's Sgt. Hynemann telling Pvt. Savage, "Well, there's your problem". Nice!
16 March 2023, 08:30
Zoltan Grotz
👍👍👍
16 March 2023, 09:18

Album info

This build is an M48A5 chassis AVLB during the 1991 Gulf War (Operation Desert Storm) with the M48A5 chassis painted in U.S. Army San, and the bridge painted in Woodland camouflage (or an earlier green camouflage pattern).

Update- the bridge and launcher are done. Moving forward on the M48A5 chassis.

The build starts with the launcher and then the bridge sections. Each of these sections is almost a kit in itself. Since I want to display the bridge in the "A" position (almost vertical), I am spending significant time working on scratch building the hydraulics for launcher and the bridge sub structure, plus correcting the solid support panels under the bridge. The kits part are solid sheets of styrene whereas the real thing has either triangular cut outs or "L" shaped cross plating to reduce weight and retain strength.

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