Having finished off the French buildings and in a bit of a terrain groove, I decided to finish off a bridge I'd had basecoated for ages. All told it only took about an hour to finish, but longer given the time taken for the glue to dry for each stage of flocking. A nice and easy win for once.
For years I didn't bother with bridges, just using my roads and having the river sections run either side of it, which worked OK, but lacked that visual punch that an actual bridge brings. So I bought one from Leven Miniatures, then scratch built one, as for many scenarios from Grant & Asquith et al, you need more than one. Last year I added to the collection with one from Battlescale. These can all be seen below:
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| All of my current bridges. |
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| The latest one from Battlescale and 6mm (I think). I had to raise this up by about 2mm so that it could sit astride the Pendraken river sections, as otherwise it just sat on the banks floating in space. |
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| This bridge is wider than the Leven Miniatures one, so tanks can generally sit quite comfortably on it. They do a cobbled version which in hindsight I wish that I'd bought, as blending the colours into my road sections was tricky, but sort of works. |
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| My 'old' Leven Miniatures bridge, that I cut into my existing river sections as this was pretty much the only way to get it to work. Not as flexible as the freestanding ones, but visually much nicer. |
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| The bridge is much narrower and so any tanks, or even 1" wide infantry bases sit on the bridge sides rather than the bridge itself. Still, it's a lovely piece and probably looks better for earlier periods. |
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| A really simple scratch build to give me a wooden style bridge, with foam ramps covered in grit, with an MDF central section covered with matchsticks. Quick and very effective. |
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| Perfect for the Eastern Front or hastily assembled bridges by engineers in say the 18thC & 19thC. |
The one thing I would takeway from all of these would be to buy the bridges you like first, so that you can check what size river sections would fit underneath, without it being a tight squeeze. It saves a lot of hassle later as I know from experience!
What Next?
Possibly some more simple terrain tweaks or upgrades whilst I'm in the mood. It would be nice to get a game in of something or the other, but nothing floats my boat at present. Of course painting more AFV's is an option that is staring at me from across the painting desk.
As always, thanks for reading and any comments are very welcome.
TTFN.
Very nice collection of bridges, Steve! Coincidentally, I have another bridge on order from my friends at Temu...a box girder one this time, which will bring my collection up to four, and may be enough...although I only have them in 28mm.....
ReplyDeleteThanks Keith:). Four bridges is surely enough, he says;)! That does remind me that I would like a box girder bridge too, for use with my railway tracks, possibly my roads too, so that I can do something Arnhem'esque. Off to do some 'research' now...
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