It's been awhile since I posted any models here but I just finished a couple of bridging vignettes I thought may be of interest. On the first one the Karrier CK6 Small Box Girder (SBG) is one I did some years ago but was never happy with the basic vehicle. It is a Matador (ex-Trux) model which needed properly curved mudguards and better front detail so I undertook that project. The load was scratch-built years back and that is unchanged except all is repainted. The Crossley IGL8 Derrick is likewise a Matador kit but with again new mudguards and a totally scratch-built body. Three of the figures are the excellent Dan Taylor Overall set and the bare headed chap is a Milcast Squaddie. Hope you like it! The crooked canopy stay on the Crossley has since been straightened! The second one contains an Albion BY 3 Pontoon with basically Matador body and pontoons re-detailed as well as a Matador chassis but with a totally scratch-built cab. The second vehicle is a Leyland Retriever, a Wee Friends model mastered by friend Dave Rhodes and offered by Wee Friends as a Wireless vehicle. My version has a TSB body I mastered and was cast by Wee Friends and I also scratch-built all the components detailed by Mike Simpson in his excellent bridging articles. Figures are Milicast and Dan Taylor. I have finished these little vignettes depicting elements of 1 Bridge Coy GHQ as they may have appeared in training directly before the ill-fated France invasion in 1940. I want to thank Ian Hanratty Dave Rhodes, Dick Harley, Stu Harrison and Pete Marshall for their respective inputs into these projects. Cheers, Neil
I was beginning to worry about your absence. Lovely models in a simple setting. Very much to my taste. Plenty of bridging vehicles to go yet. Onward and upward. Mike
Cheers Mike....good to hear from you. I had you in mind when I posted these as you lead the way on bridging vehicles. I'm waiting for a Thornycroft Tartar FBE Mk III I mastered recently plus a Mk II Dave Rhodes has mastered on an Albion BY3 with trailer so I'm looking forward to doing both of those in the near future. Meanwhile, just working on a Scammell SV1S. Cheers, Neil
I always love to see your dioramas. Brings back some memories of modeling. I have to get my old Airfix and Matchbox models down one of these days and give them to my grandson.
