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Dennis, totally agree mate 1,000% comment...!
I haven't ventured onto an LCM kit yet, only the LCA and LCVP my end. Have you built one..? If so which do you recommend!
Cheers.
Hi, Jason! WHO makes the LCA? I'd seriously look at a kit of an LCA- or is the LCA the same as the REVELL UDT Boat and Frogmen kit? I don't have my SQUADRON US LANDING CRAFT IN ACTION BOOK close by...
The 1/35 ITALERI LCVP kits are really nice kits. I never did get either the TRUMPETER or the ITALERI LCM kits... I see the ITALERI LCM on ebay every so often. I'm pretty sure that there may be some comparison reviews at these modelling sites: PMMS, Australia, and at CYBERMODELER. Possibly even at MODELING MADNESS or MISSING LYNX...
Some time before the ITALERI and TRUMPETER LCM kits hit the market, VERLINDEN marketed a full-resin kit of the LCM. I don't think I'd go for the VERLINDEN LCM, just because I know that I would have less time invested in either of the plastic TRUMPETER and/or ITALERI kits...
I don't think that I'll be buying the "NEW" ITALERI LCVP kit with crew and 30 GI's. Seeing as the figures of the GI's are all posed standing. If these figures are assaulting at OMAHA BEACH, they would be ducking, crouching and kneeling inside the boat, because the Germans were shooting every single one of their artillery guns, machine-guns, rifles, sling-shots and pea-shooters at the incoming GI's...
Even if the GI's were landing at UTAH BEACH, which was not as heavily defended by the Germans as at OMAHA, the troops would have still been crouching and kneeling... The same would have been true at SWORD, GOLD, and JUNO Beaches, where the British and Canadians were landing... Film clips of of the invading troops that were taken by the various War Correspondents will bear me out on this...
