LCM(3) landing craft - GPM 1:25

**Marco** · #1 05-09-2011, 01:21 AM

My next build will be one of the WW2 landing craft, the LCM(3) (Landing Craft Mechanised), from GPM in scale 1:25. This is one of the landing craft that was used to bring personnel, vehicles and tanks to shore, and as I also have GPM's 1:25 Sherman tank still lying around, this could turn into a slightly bigger build.

GPM - modele kartonowe
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**Marco** · #2 05-09-2011, 03:11 AM

A large part of the model consists of frames and formers:

**Michael Mash** · #3 05-09-2011, 06:09 AM

Looking forward to it Marco!
Mike

**Loopy** · #4 05-09-2011, 06:22 AM

Subscribed! Have this one staring me in the face on my desk!

**jagolden01** · #5 05-09-2011, 06:28 AM

Always a pleasure to watch your builds, MArco.

Joe

**Miles Linnabery** · #6 05-09-2011, 07:07 AM

Dear Marco:
I have to watch this build some of the boats were made just up the river from me in North Tonawanda New York. Some where in the house I have a history book about the plant. Now can I talk my wife into the money to buy the kit?
Thanks,
MILES

**Miles Linnabery** · #7 05-09-2011, 08:23 AM

Dear Marco:
Found the book. False arlum. The Bison Shipyard made Mark 5 & 6 of the Landing Craft Tanks. 120 foot long at 1/24th that would be quite a model right up your alley.
MILES

**Don Boose** · #8 05-09-2011, 09:37 AM

This is why I am so interested in your Mike boat build:

Donald W. Boose, Jr. Over the Beach: U.S. Army Amphibious Operations in the Korean War. 19-29. Fort Leavenworth, KS: CSI Press, 2008.
Combat Studies Institute

Don

**Marco** · #9 05-10-2011, 12:23 AM

Thank you all for your encouraging reactions, I'm glad there is an interest in this.

**Marco** · #10 05-11-2011, 12:28 AM

The first external parts are large sections of the hull. Not the most exciting part yet, but there will be more detail to it soon.