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  1. Thanks for the reply Kingsman. The Scammel truck does not have the right pontoons. From the only other picture I've seen the GSB pontoons appear to be hollow boxes, with a recess for the steersman. With reference to your photo of the bridge on the pontoons there are 4 separate pontoons in the picture. The dark part is a cutout is for the outboard used to move them into position. Since starting this thread I have seen a very small picture of a Vickers advert for the GSB, which seems to show Bailey bridge pontoons.
  2. Thanks for the reply Kingsman. One of the photos 2 photos I had seen of the pontoons was like the picture you posted but from further away and more square on the the bridge. On the long span bridge, I've seen a reference(Jane's IDR I think in the early 2000's) which said a either 2 One Span Bridge or 1 One Span Bridge and a Long Span Bridge or 1 Double Span Bridge by 1 Bridging Platoon, this said an extension piece was used for the Long Span Bridge. The army has a Unipower truck DROPS variant in service, That would seem to be the most likely to be used as the pontoons look too large for MAN trucks.
  3. I've seen that video and it only shows the basic bridge vehicles, but not the truck carrying the extension piece for the long span bridge or the pontoon truck for the 2 span bridge.
  4. RAF4EVER thanks for the reply. However I have seen that site and others. I've got all info all the vehicles for the GSB system except for the pontoon carrier vehicle.
  5. Does anyone have any photos of the pontoons and their transport truck for the double span option. I seen only 2 pictures online of pontoons in the water, 1 has only the crew for scale, the other is under the bridge but I can only scale the width from it. Thanks in advance for any repliesInsert image from URL
  6. How about these - https://www.ebay.co.uk/str/jksncommodities?_trksid=p4429486.m3561.l2563
  7. I don't think it has an engine. Just found out that the engine will be available as an add on to the kit
  8. Just seen that Gecko are to release a 1/16th scale Universal Carrier mk2, with figures to follow. Link to emodels page - https://www.emodels.co.uk/gecko-1-16-universal-carrier-mk-ii-bren-gun-carrier-016.html
  9. A couple of months ago I bought the Geetech Alkaid resin printer and wash/curing unit after seeing the printer on the World of Wayne Youtube channel. This is a low cost 2k resin printer and Geetech have a UK distributer, although only for the printer and wash/cure unit and their extrusion printers, but not spare parts. Link to the company website - www.geetech.com This is the first resin printer I've used, so can only comment on how satisfied I am with the prints it produces. The only issue I've had was that the printer lifts the finished print to the top limit, drips of resin from the print and print plate spash on to the top cover. The only way to solve this problem is to stop the print lifting immediately after the print finished. There are some photos of prints of my CAD designs - 1/300th scale Iskander ballinstin missile launcher, 1 in firing position, 1 in travelling and a reloader vehicle Sky Sabre AA missile system 1/300th scale Terrier engineer vehicle 1/300th scale Trojan engineer vehicle 1/16th scale M4A1 with Enhanced ACOG
  10. 1 problem with the photos of the Terrier are that many are of the prototype. The digging arm is different on the production vehicle. There's a YouTube video of the production vehicle here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLTEopEaXHs&t=52s
  11. 0ne point - that type of bunker is designed to fire across a beach, not out to sea. the protuding wall is to hide the muzzle flash from ships at sea.
  12. On size, I was printing small items so changing the setting for prints like that would not be a problem. However I set an alarm for 1 minute before the print time and manually stopped the build plate rising after it cleared the resin in the tank.
  13. Just heard back from my printer's manufacturer. There response was to say the height was fixed and to use less resing in the tank!
  14. Thanks. I'll give that a try for my next print,
  15. Thanks for the replies. I wondered if it was a Gcode setting, but I don't know enough to know what to change. I'll ask the manufacture of my printer.
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