here is the idea, a german tank is crossing a bridge over a dry wadi. down the wadi is an SAS jeep who has mined the bridge and is about to blow the bridge which will have satchels in the trusses and wire running back to the jeep, with a det box in the passenger’s lap I thought the picture was here…
comments? suggestions? thoughts?
the bridge will be blown up not just tilted
not quite finished Honey will be sitting on the new bridge and…
the really unfinished SAS jeep sitting on the far side admiring their handiwork
I like the idea but if you think of it why would you be under the bridge if your going to blow it up? I think you could make a little sand dune in the wadi and have the jeep behind it and then have it ready for blowing the bridge.
I am thinking of having a small wet area under the bridge, also they drove down the wadi it keep out of site, they blow the bridge then back down the wadi to their entrance area
Just an idea but you could have the tank be just off the serfice of the bridge with some powderd brick glued to some cotton baton under it so it looks like the bridge just bloo.
any other thoughts guys? I like the Idea of the bridge in the act of going BOOM but I am not sure I am up to that.
I kind of like the idea of the DAK figures that come with the tank to be behind the tank {the guy with his hand up is saying “let’s make sure that will hold the tank before we go forward [:-^]”
Your concept is nice, but you have the jeep way too close. They are well within the blast radius for debris, splinters, etc., not to mention easy visual range. Try doing a little background on SAS Ops in North Africa and see what their preferred methods were. I know one of their big specialties for the gun jeeps was shooting up logistics centers and airfields way behind the lines. Demo was often done with timer charges, much safer than command detonated as you are planning for a raiding force.
I was going to have them a tad more concealed BUT I think it might be better if they were shooting up a supply truck that would put them in the area better and save da tank for something else, how does that sound?
Hmm…I would think that the way you have it picturd there with all three vehicles, that it’s too busy. IMHO, it’s always batter to do a tightly focused scene than to get overly ambitious and try to force the perspective. What I mean is that all the vehicles you have in there seem WAY too close to be plausible.
I think that a dio of a blown bridge w/tank would be cool, but I would think that it would be best to concentrate on THAT idea alone, with possible a smalller subplot, like some Tommies advancing cautiously up the wadi with guns drawn to wait for the crew to try to escape, or perhaps firing on the escaping crew member?
I am still playing with it, I agree that it is at least one tank too many…not that we eat alot of sushi, but I have a ton of chopsticks for bridges [swg]
I think I may save that dio board for another day and try something else,
I do have one LARGE dio I want to do, the start of a Bridge too Far, with the Humber and a bunch of tanks on a narrow road with trees at the other end and maybe a second one on the other side of the shelf with the German anti tank guns just before they start shooting
I agree with all comments so far - the jeep is WAY too close to the bridge to be realistic in the event of an impending blast.
If you want to have an “after the event” diorama, then I’d expect the tank to be fairly severely damaged. If not damaged, it would have been recovered (or just driven out) and moved on, otherwise.
But my main advice to you is to check the style of bridge actually used in that situation. A little wadi like that would probably not justify the trouble of engineering and building a bridge; it would be more practical to simply dig an inclined cutting into each bank.
