Calling all USN Landing Craft Utility (LCU) & Land Craft Mechanized (LCM) fans

[Michael Potter]

Are 1/700 LCU and LCM-8 craft available from any source?

[Mac]

I don't think there are any accurate LCU or LCM-8s in 1/700. I started scratching a 1/700 LCM-8 and it is significantly different from the alleged LCMs in the Dragon LHA kits. I think someone here scratchbuilt a 1/700 LCU that looked pretty good, but I can't remember who... The LCU with the Revell 1/720 Tarawa kit is not very accurate...

Mac

[J Goodacre]

I made a LCU once for the amphibious diorama, I use the dimensions from

http://navysite.de/ships/lcm.htm

I hope it helps, you can see some pictures at:

http://ipmssyracuse.org/wrksinprog1.html

John

[Dikkie]

Yay, just bought me an LCM kit

[Sherman Guy]

I just started working on a LCM in 1/35 scale. Is the bottom just as wavy and the sides? How beat up did these boats get? Did the the US Navy put camo on any in Europe? Was the paint dark gray, or kinda blue?

Thanks for any help.
Jeff

[les]

I painted mine OD as it was a training boat for the Army. Most of them I've seen built go with grey.

[jepot]

Sometime last year, I made this from a 1/720 scale i think LCM supplied from i believe a Revell iwo Jima i had eons ago:





i modfied the kit to look like a floating clinic the Philippine Navy had back in the 1970s, ther RPS DAKILA (TK-82).

Im also trying to make another floating clinic from the hull of an LCI of a skywave kit into an LCU...later on that if i find the time to finish it...

[jepot]

Im also trying to make another floating clinic from the hull of an LCI of a skywave kit into an LCU...later on that if i find the time to finish it...

this is what i was talking about...cant find the time to finish is...

[wvan0901]

Am going to scratch build a 1/97 model of a 1466 class Landing Craft Utility I sailied on while in U. S. Army. Anyboby else ever did onw?

[jepot]

im in the process of making or rather converting one- again if i have the time...check out one of my posts- its a 1/700 scale modified LCU to a 1466 type...

[packy]

[commodore4]

Hi I happen to have a very slightly detailed set of plans of the "round tunnel" LCM 6 that was used by many firms as coastal oil spill response vessels.The one I worked on was converted with LORI gear and she was as unique as her sister.The thing I learned is,they ride rough, roll a lot ,and don,t go to fast.The hull plan is good enough to make her as fitted out by the NAVY.There are a lot of them and LCM8s that have lived through many conversions.I would like to see a good 1/72 model,with the correct parts.I have one hull started and I am going to do both the OSRV SQUEEGEE and the OSRV SPONGE.They could be seen if you had lunch in CROCKETT ,CALIFORNIA at the NANTUCKET restaurant.They were right there in the harbor owned by CROCKETT MARINE.Now they were workboats !!,but even the untrained eye could tell them apart,once they fired up their engines. One had wet exhausts and the other dry, boy,could you tell the difference!. Power -GMC marine engines with turbos!!They were old ,but, valuable OLD vessels. commodore4

[jepot]

almost 2 years since a post here, hmm time to ramp it up a bit...

ignore the tugboat- the LCU 1466 being sloooowly converted and found 2 LCM6's in my stash- and making them into an interesting local topic that hopefully will be a quick build...

[jepot]

,,,and its now a little ferry boat used at the main Philippine Navy operating base to the Headquarters, a converted LCM6..



a quick but eye straining build...

[jepot]

almost 2 years since a post here, hmm time to ramp it up a bit...
.... the LCU 1466 being sloooowly converted ...

slooowly seens to be an understatement for this project but still the outcome will be worth the wait, me thinks....



some sloooooooow progress on the LCU....

[NukeMM]

Are 1/700 LCU and LCM-8 craft available from any source?

Is 7 years later too, late, Michael?

I released these at Back-Aft Models, last year.

Review - http://www.modelwarships.com/reviews/sh ... eview.html

[jepot]

after 6 years of slooow work...



Tadah! well, almost.....

[ShangHist]

I am interested in building Gitmo Ferry # 98 in 1/48 scale. She was converted from a 1610-class. A Google search has only turned up simple line drawings (overhead and starboard side). Are more detailed hull drawings available? Floating Drydock only lists drawings for the 119-foot boats.

Thanks,

Bob

[dhenning]

Looking for plans/drawings of an LCM-8 from the 50s or 60s that would have seen service in Vietnam. So far, the only thing that I have been able to find are the overhead and side view in the Small Boats of the Navy booklet on the Historic Naval Ships Association website. Considering building one for a coworker's father in law who served on them with the Brown Water Navy in Vietnam.

Thanks for the assistance,
Dave

[JoeP]

If people are still looking you might find what you need on the Shapeways site.
I will be ordering some LCM-6s for a BB-LPH build someday, and I know there are manufacturers who offer Vietnam-era L-vessels.

JoeP