The Ship Model Forum

This topic will be for all smaller ships like the class tarantula, or LCT landing craft and similar size
started these 3 ships when starting modelling a little over 1 year ago....but stopped ...lack of interest....and insight what to do.
now I found the time ...and the will, to do them

this is tarantule now, did some better painting and cleaning, also cut out windows of bridge

started making new top of mast ... in pic you see the grey are kit....ok they are not finished...just started

landing ships... cut the standart kit AA guns and masts....did some painting on it.... well .... its far from done

those AA gun bath tubes are way to thick... so decided to cut them (that was painful because plastic very hard) and replace with scratch build

on taratula....going slow on this cause very fragile...fixed them, then put the connections between
now waiting for good to dry and harden...and the will ad some more

a little more

prepared some stuff to fill loading space...GM trucks, Citroen delivery ...and building scratch 2 Sherman tanks

Sherman almost finished....some details are to come and paint...but its on a good track....
the picture shows a real Sherman to compare
was gonna make 2 Shermans.... it will be a Sherman and a M26 Pershing

painted....also did a GMC and started to transform a GMC into a M3 halftrack

Yoh keep on upgrading your models

But why do you use Citroen HY whith other ww2 vehicle on your landing ship???

lol Jeff ...not gonna use the citroens....had in mind making them red cross/medical vehicles...but not gonna do so

the 2 tanks ...and GMC's will do the job
Pershing is advancing as T26E3- M26...the halftrack needs a little more fine tuning, there are 4 more GMC's in painting center...not yet placed in pics

advanced some on my LcU...only Id nbr missing

advanced a little on LcT ...M26 Perching is now done...I re-scratch build protective board.
you can see the kid piece next to the ship....

been thinking...."I was able to scratchbuild a Sherman and a M26 Perching...the LCU and LCT are only 2 landing craft....what if I make a LCVP and LCM(6)...scratch..."
I put overal dimensions of both on a paper sheet ... to see size and compare.....
looks do-able

she's getting close to end...a few more details to do...not much though
the front walking bridge might not be as they where...but I like giving the sailors an easy way of getting from 1 side to the other...and it ads something for the eye to see...lets say " its the artist touch" lol

now she is done...and the 2 together....looking good...started to scratch build the 2 other landingcraft...
they are not big...but will complete the landing type vessels....am wondering.... if I find another LCT -LCU kit at good price....I might make the LCT bigg gun version

they got a bottom....and a few extra's

re-did some of the painting on Tarantul....white is horrible to do....and dry-fitted what I have

did some more on the landing crafts....starting to get there

as I like doing several stuff at same time, I thought doing the Maquette 1/400 Alfa Class Submarine K-123...that went super fast...she was done in about 3H ...paint included...drying time not included.
only negative stuff...their decals are of very poor quality...the dept lines ...well they came to pieces only by trying to moove them on the original paper...so I abandoned to do them....might try getting the periscope straitened later on....but hey the subs are not my head breakers...
I consider them as good to compare with