Safari Bridge

[Stormin2u]

Awesome project.

 

[DRW-FJ40]

WOW...amazing work, and i love your scale park you have going on..alot of great ideas from others as well...you're doing an awesome job!! we are starting a crawler/scaler club at our rc track..i might have to borrow some ideas for our clubs "orv park" keep up the great work !!

Thanks MJC, be sure to post pics if you get the ORV park going.

Awesome project.

Thanks a bunch Stormin.

I'll probably start a thread on the entire park soon. Need to pull all my projects together into the RC Scale Park.

 

[svt_adam]

I can't wait to see a thread about your park. The amount of work you've put into all the projects you've posted in here amazes me.

 

[DRW-FJ40]

I can't wait to see a thread about your park. The amount of work you've put into all the projects you've posted in here amazes me.

Thanks!

Here is a little update. almost finished really. I had to give up on the idea of it being modular for a number of reasons. so last weekend, I fitted it into the rocks semi-permanantly. i.e. for the summer. lashed the sections together & did some landscaping. All that I need to do now is the final suspension cables.

 

[mjc597]

too cool !! are the little plants/trees real or artificial stuff?

 

[DRW-FJ40]

too cool !! are the little plants/trees real or artificial stuff?

Yes, plant are all real. dino is too... "thumbsup"

 

[dont slow down]

I've been waiting for this, that bridge is top notch! The whole park looks fantastic! I would love to see a thread for your whole park.

 

[DRW-FJ40]

I've been waiting for this, that bridge is top notch! The whole park looks fantastic! I would love to see a thread for your whole park.

Thanks! I have a get together planned this weekend so it will be finished. Hopefully, I'll get some good pics this weekend & start a thread on the whole thing.

 

[THX_138]

Most excellent "thumbsup"

Keep watch... William Holden will be creeping around under it
trying to place explosives..... "Bridge Over The River Kwai" :lmao:

Hope to see you do a P.O.V. video from one of your trucks
around the whole place and over the bridge.... nice work
"thumbsup""thumbsup""thumbsup"









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[IKke]

:shock: That's beautiful. With the bridge and everything, very nice "thumbsup"

 

[Hoosierdady]

X2! very nice work. I can only hope to get my scale trial looking like this.

 

[DRW-FJ40]

Most excellent "thumbsup"

Keep watch... William Holden will be creeping around under it
trying to place explosives..... "Bridge Over The River Kwai" :lmao:

Hope to see you do a P.O.V. video from one of your trucks
around the whole place and over the bridge.... nice work
"thumbsup""thumbsup""thumbsup".

Thanks Joe, I am wanting to do some video. don't have much experience but have an airplane friend I met at a local RC airfield coming over this weekend & he has a gopro & FPV setup for his plane & we're going to mount it on a truck... so, Hopefully, I'll get some cool video. I actually googled river kwai pics when I was comeing up with ideas, watched that with my Dad as a kid.

:shock: That's beautiful. With the bridge and everything, very nice "thumbsup"

Thanks!

X2! very nice work. I can only hope to get my scale trial looking like this.

Thanks, post some pics when you build.

 

[Gimpdiggity]

This is beyond awesome. I really can't think of anything to describe it.

I'm jealous, that's for certain!!!

 

[z50king]

that is amazing. I want to build a park like that

 

[DRW-FJ40]

Thanks guys! snapped this this morning. little better angle. You can see how the rope is going to continue on the other sections. just need to tie it off & CA it. I went out to do it last night in the dark & rain & realized that wasn't such a good idea.

 

[Big Tex]

wow, my minds been blown, im very impressed with the attention to detail,
and how it looks exactly like something you would actually find in the jungle! "thumbsup"

 

[DRW-FJ40]

wow, my minds been blown, im very impressed with the attention to detail,
and how it looks exactly like something you would actually find in the jungle! "thumbsup"

Thanks, I appreciate the compliment! I think it looks like what your brain thinks you would find in the jungle. I spent some time on a 4wd expedition in the jungles of SE asia back 20 years ago. '73 110 Landy. We were following a large river downstream, Sandang river in central Sulawesi, Indonesia. We kept crossing these tributaries on rickety old bamboo bridges. I remebered the boards that were used as slats & the oil stains down the middle. I also remembered taking a picture near one of the bridges. I dug & dug & finally found it & realized my memory of these bridges had forgotten the reality of 3rd world jungle bridges. They are crude & only do the minimum amount of work to make them passable. They frequently get washed away. Milled lumber is a luxury so you only use boards where the tires go so your not bumping over bamboo & by crossing the boards with the bamboo, it's stronger. Most local people don't have vehicles & the few that do, they are usually old land rovers that have been patched along to the point that if it weren't for the distinct body style, you would know they were a landy. I saw landys with japanese engines, german transmittions & backyard mods that would blow your mind. Ours had an altimeter from a cesna on the dashboard & we used to joke that it started out as a plane & they kept swapping parts till it looked more like a landy. Anyway, point being, they all need oil at the same rate as gas, thus the oil stains.

Sorry for the rambling, but this brought back one more memory. When we would stop to fill up with gas, it would be at some little backwoods jungle market & a guy would come out, lift the top of a 55 gal barrel, dip a can into an open drum of diesel fuel & ladel it into the truck. The whole time with a lit but hangin' out of his mouth.

I'll see if I can scan that pic in & add it.

 

[dont slow down]

Interesting! Well from your story it looks like you 100% nailed it on your bridge then!

 

[DRW-FJ40]

Well, I'm callin' it done. I'll probably tweak a few things here & there but... it's done.

Thanks for watching & all your comments.

 

[Die-Laughing]

very cool"thumbsup"