What's on the Bench 2023

[rickoshea52]

Trying to shift some shelf queens, this one has been around for a while.

[minitnkr]

Whenever my mojo flags I turn to "....those damned engineers....". They never fail to perk me up. Here are WIP engineer elements. An M2 Treadway platoon, elements of a Dora Bridge platoon, & elements of Baily & Footbridge platoons.
Potentials on the bench.








The gap here is for the potential Baily bridge elements currently on the bench.

[Mini Me]

Great stuff Paul... looking forward to the potentials on the bench! My eye did spy an Autocar U 8144 T...how sweet it is!

[Allen Dewire]

Those damn engineers Paul!!! Great looking stuff and the bench looks even better Buddy. Lucky I was a 12B and not a 12C bridge specialist. Those bridge parts weighed a ton when you had to play with them...

Prost
Allen

[minitnkr]

Dude, mansplain please! I know M2 Treadway, Bailey, Footbridge & I think (truss joists on pipe pilings) Dora? Don't know ref. 12B & 12C.

[Guest]

I think he means MOS 12B Combat Engineer vs. 12C Bridge Crewmember.

[Allen Dewire]

My bad Paul...12B was the designation for a combat engineer and 12C was a bridge specialist designation back when. There was also a 12A who was an atomic bomb specialist. Their job was to carry a small A-bomb in a rucksack, deliver it onsite, then run like hell before it went off.......We used to do bridge training once a year and build Bailey, MGB and others. Your back hurt for a week afterwards!!! I just had fun blowing things up, recons, laying minefields and such....

[Allen Dewire]

I think he means MOS 12B Combat Engineer vs. 12C Bridge Crewmember.

Exactly that!!!...

[Guest]

There was also a 12A who was an atomic bomb specialist.

https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2019/01/14/the-horrifying-purpose-of-special-atomic-demolition-munition-units-we-all-knew-it-was-a-one-way-mission-a-suicide-mission/

[Ian M]

This is where the rest is at right now,chassis 95% built and just started adding a few llittle dents to the body
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Like wow. That is a very nice motor.

[colin m]

Whenever my mojo flags I turn to "....those damned engineers...."

That's quite an impressive convoy there Paul.

[minitnkr]

Thanks for the support guys. Over 55 years I've been working 1/87 scale WWII US bridging elements, & still not done.

[Mini Me]

That's the fun part..... always something you can do to improve or add to the theme :thumb2:

[adt70hk]

Hi all

So apologies to you all, as I've failed miserably to even keep up to date in a small way with everything going on here.....:sad-face:

My bench is depressingly empty...save for my study material, as you can see.*** But the end is in sight!! :smiling::smiling::smiling::smiling::smiling::smil ing::smiling:

I’ve surprised myself and am well ahead of where I thought I would be.

I did the online test part the day it opened (Monday). I had planned to do a couple of nights' revision and sit it tonight but decided on the spur of the moment to get it over and done with.
25% of the overall marks come from it. There were 25 questions and I had an hour, to do them in....basically a series of short scenarios.

But I'm most surprised about the 2000-2500 word assignment. This accounts for 75% of the overall marks and the final draft is already done!! :surprised::surprised::surprised::surprised:

I'm going to print it off at work tomorrow and then put it to one side for a week before a final read through and submission late next week but still a few days ahead of the deadline of the 5th - no one is more surprised than me!!

The good news is that I have already select my next victims as a welcome back double bill!!

And thanks again for all the messages of support along the way.

ATB

Andrew

***The bench is though still nicely messy!:tongue-out3:

[Andy the Sheep]

Andrew, congratulations for your online test: after the efforts you made on books that result must be rewarding.
What I usually fear most is reviewing a text I wrote: every time I go through it I find something I'd like to correct, but when I change it, I almost always discover that the original version was better... it's a sort of rabbit hole.
My humble suggestion is: search for mistakes (typing, grammar, synthax...) and ignore any urge to change the structure of your text.