At last, I have completed my LSSC. The kit is not bad, I simply added some accessories from Academy and Verlinden sets to get more ‘busy’ look.
Now it is time to work on Vosper for the PT group build. 
Nice!!! [:)]
WOW Now that’s COOL.
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Bud
Very nice work, particularly the detail painting and weathering! Certainly well-armed for such a small boat, it looks to have more guns than a PBR!
One question - what’s the cylindrical object in the middle of the boat? I’ve often wondered what this was. It looks like a radar housing, but a radar seems a bit out of place for a small riverine craft like this.
I could not resist temptation to arm it “to the teeth”. [:)]
There are good photos of armed LSSC’s on MST-2’s site: http://www.mst2-vietnam.info/TK_photos.htm
It is a Raytheon search radar (it was often dismounted).
Hello Mavrik,
this was nice for me to look at, i build this model some years ago, but a lost nearly all off my models when i was moving. I remember the model and i can see that you made it look beautiful.
Hasse
Wow, that’s a heck of a paint job. I particularly like the ammo cans in that QM green.
The M-60’s are nice as well (even if my memory of them is being a bit “oilier” black/dark–that’s long ago and far away, too, I’ll not tell you to repaint ).
It is, in fact a radar unit (very typically a Raytheon unit). Which can come in very handy in the dark for finding which bit of inky black is the channel and not the bank. Of course, the other “trick” of it is to rember you dialed down the brightness on the CRT to preserve night vision, and not waste time trying to turn on a switched-on radar unit . . .
Thank you. I painted MG’s black and drybrushed them with Humbrol’s gunmetal. If I got you right, it would be better to add a drop of green or yellow paint into the gunmetal paint. Am I right?
Well, “the Pig” has about a gazzilion “colors” on it, then you take one out in the field and start wearign them off . . .
The base color I (just me, others differ) is MM steel with an overwash of Oily Black. Adding a bit of Panzer grey to the Steel for the feed cover is a nice touch. I like a semi-gloss black for the “furniture” even though IRL the plastic used is a satin-sort of black. A bit of Gunmetal or gunmetal plus medium green or black or Aluminum can help the bipod legs “stand out” visually. Yeah, bunches of work to execute in, what, 3 x 30 mm ?
Or, a person could just start with Steel, wash eht reciever with oily black, drybrush bipod & top cover with Engine black, and just use black for the furniture, and hit that with adab or Engine black.
'Course, it’s easy to over-think (and over work) such things. And, it can be much simpler, like on cruise if one has the subject handy when cerfully chemically blackening brass parts which were then buffed to varying degrees of sheen . . . “Obsession? Wzzat?” Now, if I just knew where the box with all those oh-so-convenient brass MGs went to i nthe attic or where ever . . .
Still a pretty LSSC. Makes me want to go get one of my own to bash on.
Thank you. I will try to paint a spare M60 in accordance with your instructions.
PBR & LSSC are finished, Swift and STCAN still wait… [:)]
I’ve always had a hankering to build an ATC(H)–but I’ve never been quite tough enough to whittle down the 1/32 Hueys out there for a proper “short door” Bravo bird (assuming I could find space for all that . . .
The Mk II PBF has slightly better geometry for scratch building (the reverse-angle pilothouse glass lends a rakish look, too). The twin .50 up top is mounted in a PT-style ring, so that’s pretty easy to organize. It’s the after mount that can vex. (None of which is helped by the fact that most of the time, all of that was under cover, and no matter how sensible IRL to protect the guns, they just don’t “model” right covered . That’s life.
Do you consider using LCM-3 by Italeri as a base for ATC(H)? At the same time, UH-1C (Academy/MRC) can be converted into UH-1B (as far as I remember, the main visual difference is the engine cowl).
I plan to start with Revell/Monogram kits of STCAN (RAG boat) and Swift Mk I. They are 1/48 scale kits. I hope, that the armament can be replaced relatively easily (thanks to growing range of armor kits in 48’th scale).
Looks good Mavrik[tup][tup] I can’t wait to see the Vosper you’ve got planned for the G/B[:O] I’m slowly workin’ on my PT-109
I will try to show some progress on Vosper in several days. However, build is progressing VERY, VERY slowly… [:(]
I hear ya Mavrik, My build got passed by a [censored]snail last week[V][#oops][banghead] I gotta git busy!!
I have, but there are enough dimensional differences between the LCM-3 & LCM-5 (the basis of the riverine conversions) to “nag” at me for not being “right.” After going to the trouble of crafting up the spoon bow & bar armor, it’s really not that much more effort to start from a scratch-built “dash five Mike” boat. (Or, that’s the story I’m sticking to for now . . . )
this maybe a dumb question but… who makes that kit. i just finished a pbr about 2 months ago and think that one of those would look cool next to it.
I know, that the hull should be lengthen for 6 feet (6 ‘real’ feet). But at least, it is a base with correct hull lines.
It would be great to see ATC(H) in 1/35. [;)]
This kit was produced by Dragon. I am not sure, whether it is in production right now or not.
You can see what is in the box here:
Pictures of a beutiful dioarama (created by Vladimir Demchenko) are here: http://diorama.ru/gallery/dioramas/347/[](http://rumodelism.com/sunduk/obz086.shtml)