Wow that is excellent scratch building.
Construction continued. The bridge was adapted to the base vehicle. Some adjustments had to be made to the base vehicle. Now the construction of the bridge’s roadway could begin. For the tracked vehicles, the decking consisted of replaceable hardwood blocks, similar to the ramps of the GSP-55 tracked ferry. Here are some pictures.
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The bridge has received its final road surface structure. It was a laborious task. Here are pictures of the construction phase.
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The bridge was tested. You can see how the vehicle tilts forward. Because the torsion bar suspension is designed to be flexible, this condition is achievable.
Here the vehicle in the marching position
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The bridge received its first coat of paint from Elita 57008. I’ve had very good experiences with this paint. Unfortunately, the first attempt at painting failed because it’s very complicated to spray such a bridge framework. Many areas are hard to reach when spraying the paint. You can clearly see from the pictures that the paint job has to be done several times. As a model builder, that’s something you just have to live with.
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After several coats of paint, the bridge has now reached its final state. The white stripes were applied to the bridge because it’s a model from the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia. The Russian soldiers used anything that looked white, even if it was just bedsheets. First, I’ll show the bridge again after another coat of paint, and then I’ll show another MTU-20 armored bridge-laying vehicle driving over it. Both vehicles were in use at the same time.
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Spectacular scratch building. That drive surface texture on the bridge looks good and meticulous. 
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That’s excellent scratch building and finished model.
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Today, the base vehicles are the T-54 MTU-12 and the T-55 MTU-20. The bridges on the base vehicles were not interchangeable.
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Today, I’m showing the finished model of the MTU-12, as I saw it as a child in August 1968 during the invasion of Czechoslovakia. This memory has remained with me to this day. I was eleven years old at the time. I never would have imagined that I would be rebuilding this vehicle so many years later. I hope you enjoy it. Here are the pictures.
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I vaguely remember the Sandmännchen driving an MTU-12. I found a video with a BRDM-2 and a fieldkitchen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw1PvvRShR0
BTW the BRDM-2 is not very detailed build. 
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