New Bridge design from Sarissa.

[Geudens]

I think, in this case, I would have preferred the bracing/latice work to be laser cut as separate "sections" (one per top and bottom on each side)...attaching them with simple glue.  It would have given the model a tiny bit more 3D appearance.  It also would have only involved a tiny bit more laser work.  I have no need for this type of bridge so my comments are borderline...useless.

too right!!!

[former user]

Definitely not western, reminds of covered bridges in the Northeast US.

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"USA: The FHWA encourages the preservation of covered bridges with its Covered Bridge Manual.[14] There are bridges in California, for example at Knight's Ferry,[15] North Carolina,[16] Pennsylvania, Georgia, Oregon, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Alabama, Tennessee,[17] Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Missouri, Rhode Island,[18] Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia"
from here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covered_bridge

apart from there always being room for improvement. I find this bridge actually very useful and attractive, plus, I don't know of any other available.
I am not very familiar with lasercut, but I guess the structure can be improved without much effort since there is no mould but a simple vector graphic to steer the machine?
I would regard it as a good starting point at least.

And while You are at it, please consider wooden (and iron) truss bridges, especially useful for ACW railway wargaming...

[Heisler]

I'll stand corrected on that point. However, they are still mostly associated with the Northeast as compared to other parts of the US. They are at best unusual in dry western climates because they burn so easy.

[former user]

I cannot claim to define what the genre "Western" means for everyone, but here is my first medial "encounter" with the covered bridge:

I remember the movie "friendly persuasion", where Gary Cooper plays a pacifist Quaker during the ACW, who's only sin is sometimes racing his neighbour on the Sunday church-going - and this race always leads through a - covered bridge (and I had to ask and look up what the strange building was they were driving through.... or how is sitting in a horse-waggon called?)

the ACW setting was enough for me to set these into the Western genre (apart from the movie being a metaphor and having far more content at a multitude of levels, as many GC movies had)

[Heisler]

The movie is set in Indiana which during the ACW was considered to be a western state. With the rapid expansion of the US though western territories became anything on the western side of the Mississippi River. For the me the Mississippi is certainly the dividing line. All the things that say wild west for me are on the western side of that river, arid conditions, plains Indians, buffalo, deadend/box canyons, gold mines, adobe buildings and, of course, outlaws galore!

[former user]

as I said, Western is individual, and I can't compare to a US american