Peter, thank YOU for the very kind words.

I wasn't able to think of anything that I'd be able to do. However, your idea is smashing - I hadn't thought of "Courage Under Fire" - I've never seen all of the movie. Thanks for the idea!

Since you have better ideas than I do, and when you have a free minute or three, can you think of any movie or TV show where an F6F-3 Hellcat aircraft or a Crusader MkIII tank were used? I have a MUCH better chance of finishing those 2 models before the turn of the next century! I'm so slow they time me with a sundial!

Thanks again, Peter! I'm so impressed with your bridge. Every time I visit this posting, I begin to whistle the movie tune, the Colonel Bogey March. It was a VERY popular piece of music when I was in school (mid to late 1960s) - we played it in Concert Band at an end-of-the-year concert and later did a Halftime show (at our American High School football game) using it in our Marching Band. I was curious about both the movie and the Whistling tune, and I was/am VERY surprised to find out that the Col. Bogey March was only USED in the movie, and was actually composed in 1914! There's your trivia for today!

The bridge is awesome, Peter - Thanks for sharing!

When you went live with this build, Peter, I thought, “now THAT is a long term project”. This build has really caught fire and developed a life of its own - a real poster build for the Group.

Amazing work.

PS. I’ve been playing something of a ‘where’s Wally’ with your bridge shots, looking for minder.

I’m going to try that one at work. “No mate, can’t do that, I’m off on a little walkabout- it’s a cultural thing, it’s in the contract”.

Or just pull a ‘Lawrence Oats’, “I may be some time...”

Thanks for your previous reply to the bridge catching fire. I tend to get caught up in things I really enjoy doing (like most others).

Don't worry, it will eventually take a long time to finish. It is a diorama after all. So it will have lots of other stuff to be incorporated, as you know from your own wonderful dioramas.

@dirtylittlefokker

Nice transition Peter. Very nice.

Thanks Tom for positive feedback.

Have not done figures larger than 1/72, and even they were rudimentary. To include A. Guinness and W. Holden in said confrontation would require a wider display base even for forced perspective. Perhaps another display, just with the figurines, bumped up against the bridge display may do the trick. But at this stage, I do not see myself doing that. The mini figures at 1/150 scale will be both challenging, and hopefully dramatic enough, for this diorama build.

Thanks for visiting this build.

@tcinla