Centurion AVLB (slow build)

[Scratchbuilder]

Many thanks to you all for the comments, I will show more progress as it happens, but I am not going to bore you with a repeat of the first bridge part, bit like those holiday snaps no one really wants to see...
Cheers
Mike.

[rtfoe]

Hi Wibble, just saw your wonderful bridge, short legged floppy eared piranha and paper punched finger...be sure to fit in the brass eyelets before you file your finger with the rest of the documents.
Seriously cute puppy, horrible injury and magnificent bridge. Hope finger mends well to continue the other sections of the bridge. Now slower becomes dead slow. :smiling6:

Cheers,
Wabble

[minitnkr]

Outstanding. Your patience knows no bounds. Amazing bridge details.

[Scratchbuilder]

Hi Wibble, just saw your wonderful bridge, short legged floppy eared piranha and paper punched finger...be sure to fit in the brass eyelets before you file your finger with the rest of the documents.
Seriously cute puppy, horrible injury and magnificent bridge. Hope finger mends well to continue the other sections of the bridge. Now slower becomes dead slow. :smiling6:

Cheers,
Wabble

Hello Wabble,
Many thanks for your comment - Mini gnasher puts on the face that melts hearts, so cannot be annoyed at her. Will know if finger is in workable condition next week when 20 feet of finger bandage are removed (slight exageration). Managing to do some work, but have to be aware of dropped scalpels between legs when forgetting and holding them with bad finger.
Cheers
Wibble.

[rtfoe]

Hello Wabble,
Many thanks for your comment - Mini gnasher puts on the face that melts hearts, so cannot be annoyed at her. Will know if finger is in workable condition next week when 20 feet of finger bandage are removed (slight exageration). Managing to do some work, but have to be aware of dropped scalpels between legs when forgetting and holding them with bad finger.
Cheers
Wibble.

I thought it would have been 30 feet. Beware of totem pole when dropping scalpels Wibble, doesn't need new faces carved on it. :tears-of-joy:

Cheers,
Wabble

[Scratchbuilder]

I thought it would have been 30 feet. Beware of totem pole when dropping scalpels Wibble, doesn't need new faces carved on it. :tears-of-joy:

Cheers,
Wabble

Just spit me tea all over the screen...

[Scratchbuilder]

So back on the bench and out of SWMBO's hair, it does not help to be standing in the kitchen when she is swinging hot pans around and dodging three dogs... The pad of the forfinger is still very sensitive, but I can work with it, just got to be carefull how I get hold of things like door handles, edges of cupboard doors...
Anyway enough of the whining - progress...
The second section of the bridge is almost complete and the sides of the third section are cut out ready to start work...


So as you can see not a lot more to do on the second section which once completed is where it will be on the finished item, with the finished section shown will in fact be attached and will form the whole left hand side of the bridge... So now to dismantle it as you can guarantee it will get caught and damaged.
Cheers
Mike

[Guest]

That will look properly impressive when it’s done. What am I saying … it already does

Will you be building it with the bridge vertical like this, or will you keep it articulated?

[Scratchbuilder]

That will look properly impressive when it’s done. What am I saying … it already does :smiling3:

Will you be building it with the bridge vertical like this, or will you keep it articulated?

The plan is to have the bridge workable so that I can put it on display in the launched position. The reason for this was when I displayed my Chieftain bridgelayer the bridge is fixed in the half-way point and I was like an expectant father all day wondering if someone had damaged it. But when stored in the display cabinet it will be in the transport position.

[stillp]

That will look properly impressive when it’s done. What am I saying … it already does :smiling3:

Seconded!
Pete

[Jack L]

So back on the bench and out of SWMBO's hair, it does not help to be standing in the kitchen when she is swinging hot pans around and dodging three dogs... The pad of the forfinger is still very sensitive, but I can work with it, just got to be carefull how I get hold of things like door handles, edges of cupboard doors...
Anyway enough of the whining - progress...
The second section of the bridge is almost complete and the sides of the third section are cut out ready to start work...
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So as you can see not a lot more to do on the second section which once completed is where it will be on the finished item, with the finished section shown will in fact be attached and will form the whole left hand side of the bridge... So now to dismantle it as you can guarantee it will get caught and damaged.
Cheers
Mike

It’s that big, I missed it in the first photo! Thought it was a shelving unit in the background. Looking seriously impressive Mike.

[Neil Merryweather]

It’s that big, I missed it in the first photo! Thought it was a shelving unit in the background. Looking seriously impressive Mike.

Me too :tears-of-joy:

[Guest]

Hahaha! The real thing spans a fourteen-metre gap, give or take …

[stillp]

Me too :tears-of-joy:

+1!
Pete

[minitnkr]

Thirded!