CHARON bridgelayer (2)

Well, last night I continued with the CHARON bridgelayer.

and now I have the bridge mechanism pretty much completed

and it seems to work nicely

But the harder work is the actual rigging of the bridge.

I included one cable/rope that raises the A-Frame and I'm working on the second to operate the bridge

I'm trying to hide a cable roll in those two boxes so that I can adjust the ropes accordingly when the Bridge is up or down.

I'm not really sure if I add a little hatch in the former turret area of the MLRS, so that besides a driver, I can have a bridge operator....

For the actual diorama I have the vision of beer-bellied operator in a white muscle shirt standing besides the CHARON, cigar in mouth, and a remote strapped to him, lowering the bridge....
oh, this opens soooo many venues...a ladder for the operator, a cable connection for the RC...so many ideas :)

Cheers

Klaus

CHARON bridgelayer

I didn't touch the ZEUS last night.
Instead I continued with the diorama and started working on the bridgelayer.
For this I took an old Dei Greci chassis (from the HEPHAISTOS MLRS), removed the rocket-launcher turret and cunstructed an A-Frame and a bridge.

Both will be transported by the CHARON like this:

The bridge is narrow enough for a Dei Greci vehicle

but at the same time wide enough for a standard Chimera or Russ

It will then be dropped looking like this

I still have to work out the details on the mechanism and stuff, but I'm rather confident.
Cheers

Klaus