discussion 28mm Churchill Project - Hobart's Funnies Churchill AVRE SBG

[Steve-the-Duck]

TWO YEARS ago I started posting a build of this, then I couldn't post pictures anymore. Now that's solved, I can catch up with all the postings. This completion pre-dates the other lot of Churchills I just posted

Churchill AVRE Bridgelayer - Folding Small Box Girder Bridge, 79th Division, Germany 1945

3D resin print from 3D Printing Valley. They originally sent me a 1/72 print, and kindly added the 28mm I originally asked for
The bridge parts can be fixed together as the earlier non-folding type, and that's a LOT of weight on the front which is only attached to the hull by two small frames. Which broke. Repeatedly. So, it's reinforced with, mostly hidden, brass rod. If you check the build, from waaay back, you'll see the amount of weight I had to put in the back of the hull to balance. Thankfully it's a hollow printing. The arrangement of the cabling is partly conjectural, based on a single side-view drawing in Futter's 'Hobart's Funnies' book, and a 1/35 build online. Even the Royal Engineers Museum near me doesn't have photo references

 

[Jim R]

Those "Funnies" make very interesting models. This is excellent especially given the scale.

 

[Steve-the-Duck]

BTW, the only real addition I made to this kit, apart from 20p in 2p pieces (!) are the pulleys, which are actually the wheels out of an old OLD Matchbox M16 half-track