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An LCM3 Adventure

A word to the wise: if you don’t have a punch and die set don’t even bother trying. This mount pretty much mandates it!

Here you can see the initial parts of the mount. The biggest challenge here is making sure that all of the holes on both sides of the perforated 50 cal cradle line up with each other and match the plans. This is where the punch and die is crucial.

Next up came the gun shields. The ones in the Italeri kit are pretty much entirely wrong, being too short, too thick, having a notch taken out of one side and missing the 50cal cocking lever bulge. The Eduard ones, in true Eduard fashion, are exact copies of the Italeri ones with no attempts at all at making them accurate. Sigh.

So based on the scaled down drawing, and the images from the above website, I went about trying to build my own shield.

I tried sheet plastic of various sizes but it was either too thick, too flimsy, or wouldn’t hold the required bends.