Trumpeter release of the LCM(3)

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Just saw this. Thought some of you might be interested:

http://www.perthmilitarymodelling.com/reviews/vehicles/trumpeter/tr00347.htm

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I like it. Love the little ammo belts.

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Yippeee… GM has them for pre-order. 51 bucks! Not to bad compared to the resin one…

KC

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Ya gotta love it.

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Never wanted to do a landing craft very much, but this could change my mind. Thanks for the link.

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Looks like Trumpeter is really stepping it up. With the way they are running, and DML right alongside, looks like the other T is slowly falling behind.

It really does look like a nice kit. Should definitely be used in some dio. Can you imagine a beachead dio with a couple of these unloading men and armour. That`d be pretty impressive.

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[:D] looks cool ,i just might get one[:D]

gdarwin[roy]

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Great Models is showing a projected delivery date of July 1.

Man, is that Verlinden job expensive! Difference between injection molded and resin, I guess!!

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I’m gonna get one and mount a Leopold in it! Paint it dunkelgelb!

[(-D]

This thing is just beggin’ for a Sherman in it. Extreme, extreme coolness.

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Looks a cool kit, I wonder if it’s the same moulds as the Italeri one?

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Awww… I’m all over that! Now if only I could convince the wife I need one…
Ryan

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Thanks for the info and the link, zokissima. It’s the first time I heard about Trumpeter’s LCM-3 and it seems to be better than Italeri’s.

BTW, I watched D-DAY on Discovery channel and saw a lot of balloons among the thousand ships. What were they for?, to hinder German aircrafts?.

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ModelManiac Those held steel cables between them and the ground, so if the infamous luftwaffe tried to stafe the beaches their wings would get ripped off. [}:)]

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Thanks for your reply, ddayomaha. First I thought they were tied to the ships.
Anyway, couldn’t the luftwaffe fly above those balloons and blow them off first? [:)]

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Looks like another plastic monster to add to the wish list.

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The ballons were tethered to the ships. They serve dual purpose:

  1. Low flying AC get tangled in the tethers and looses wings etc. [xx(]
  2. AC flying high and slow enough to shoot down the ballons are PRIME targets for AA gunners. [xx(]

OH! doesn’t really matter, the Germans got 2, yes only 2 AC over the beaches! [:D][:p]

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Thanks for your info, claymore68. So the balloons were tethered to the ships as I thought. The Germans had only 2 aircrafts there?, what a pity!.