SBG Assault Bridge
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One girder built.
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All four girders.
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Hooks and other end plates on the girders.
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Girders added together with crossbeams to make basic bridge shape.
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Insides of the bridge laboriously sprayed with Tamiya dark earth. The real thing would have been SCC 2 brown, but I didn’t have any suitable paint that would work well on bare plastic and I didn’t want to prime the bridge first because that would lead to a lot of paint buildup on the outside of it, so a fairly close Tamiya acrylic has to do. Advice: glue a zigzag piece to each side plate, paint the insides, and THEN assemble them into a girder.
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Bridge complete, other than the booms that were used when winching it up into travel position.
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One of the handles was missing from the sprue, so I made a replacement.
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The instructions contain a mistake: they say to use part U17 on both sides of the bridge, but that on the right should be U6. I had corrected a U17 already before spotting the correct part on the sprue, so I’m leaving it like this.
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Booms added to the tank end of the bridge, still movable for ease of painting and to prevent accidents in handling the bridge later on, when building the tank.
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Protection for the booms: a piece of balsa strip between the boom and the bridge deck, held in place with some masking ta
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The bridge of the real tank this is a model of. Spot the mistake in my model …
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If you said, “the second crosspiece is in the wrong position”, you got it right 🙂 So I had to carefully take it out, even though it didn’t want to cooperate.
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The kit provides four pieces so I had one spare, that I could then put in the right position.
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I sprayed the bridge decks white with primer from an aerosol can, then started masking off the lengthwise slats. This is easy enough with flat tweezers (to position the tape) and a dentist’s/sculpting tool (to smooth it down)
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Bridge painted: the decks are a random mix of Tamiya X-9 brown and XF-1 flat black (more brown than black), the rest is Vallejo 71.269 insignia white with a bit of MIG 111 SSC 2 brown mixed in, to represent that the real bridge was painted white over its original SSC 2 finish.
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Close-up of the colour difference between the white slat and the rest of the bridge. The white will need to be re-masked but the tape came off when I pulled the masking off the deck.
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The bridge was then given a wash of the same paint mixture, but now at about a 1:1 ratio, plus water, to create shadows. Washed on the right, without wash on the left.
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After that had dried, I drybrushed the bridge with a cream white colour, Rackham Noëssis White. Drybrushed on the left, not dry brushed on the right.
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And then all detail and edges that will face towards the light when the bridge will be on the tank, were drybrushed with pure white.
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Bridge deck painted some more, with a wash of Tamiya NATO Black and drybrushing with various wood/earth shades.
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One of the eyes broke off, so I made some replacements from 1 mm brass rod.
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Stem cut down and drilled into a hole drilled in the bridge.
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Streaks painted on the bridge decks to better replicate wood. A medium red-brownish colour first (deck in foreground) followed by smaller ones in sand (at the top). The latter were, of course, then applied to the other one as well 🙂
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Decks drybrushed with brown to tone down the streaks a bit, and Army Painter Strong Tone applied to deck at top to accentuate the moulded wood grain and seams between the planks.
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Deck at bottom also has Strong Tone applied here, the deck at top has been drybrushed with Humbrol MC24 Natural Wood.
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After both had been drybrushed with Natural Wood, I then drybrushed them lightly with Humbrol 72 Khaki Drill; again, top deck,is done here, bottom isn’t yet.
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And then the tape was pulled off. Some touching up will be needed, but there is also some more painting to do anyway.
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The paints used for this simple little bridge … On the left for the trusses, on the right for the deck.
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Insides of the bridge repainted in SCC 2 brown. Tip: paint these areas and then put some tape on the inside of the zigzag parts before putting the bridge together …
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I had to laboriously repaint these with a brush 🙁
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Cables attached to the bridge.
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Close-up of the cable eye, clasp, clasp pin and ring on the bridge, that all still need to be painted.
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The two booms were glued together at the top, but everything else is still loose, including the boom hinges at the bottom.
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11 17 March 2023, 14:16
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Thanks 🙂 It's quite surprising how much work there is in something as apparently straightforward as this bridge …
3 June 2023, 19:04
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Also, before I forget again, here is the build photo album for the tank this bridge is to go onto: Churchill Mk. IV AVRE | Album by Jakko (1:35)
4 June 2023, 09:13
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A Small Box Girder Assault Bridge Mk. II for mounting on a Churchill AVRE.