Neil's Italeri 1/35 LCVP Landing Craft

[Jim R]

There's no limit to this guy's ingenuity. He's made the bucket , now onto the spade.

[minitnkr]

Great SBS on bucket building.

[Neil Merryweather]

Great SBS on bucket building.

Why thank you kind sir!

[Mickc1440]

Great detailing Neil

[boatman]

WOW Neil i never knew there was so much work to make a tiny bucket but wow im impressed that you sir made the attempt an very well done
chrisb

[Tim Marlow]

Superb stuff Neil. Masterclass is the word that comes to mind :thumb2:

[Valeron]

Brilliant. So much effort and detail on this model.

[Scratchbuilder]

Neil, just caught up on your build, but the best part has got to be the bucket build. As you say - drooling.....
Bucket SBS put away for future reference.

[Steve Ski]

Bingo, that works!

[minitnkr]

......ah yes...drool buckets...us older gents recall them.

[Neil Merryweather]

Neil,
that is outstanding mate.

There's no limit to this guy's ingenuity. He's made the bucket , now onto the spade.

Great SBS on bucket building.

Great detailing Neil

WOW Neil i never knew there was so much work to make a tiny bucket but wow im impressed that you sir made the attempt an very well done
chrisb

Superb stuff Neil. Masterclass is the word that comes to mind :thumb2:

Brilliant. So much effort and detail on this model.

Neil, just caught up on your build, but the best part has got to be the bucket build. As you say - drooling.....
Bucket SBS put away for future reference.

Bingo, that works!

......ah yes...drool buckets...us older gents recall them.

Wow !
well that was unexpected ,thanks very much Gents, how very gratifying.

[Si Benson]

Great job with the bucket Neil :thumb2:

[Neil Merryweather]

Right then, let’s do it!
Having solved the problem of the uninflated life belt I now want at least one inflated one and, as I said, I have been mulling this over for a fair few years.
Here is my eventual solution - it’s an experiment because I haven’t got round to testing my theory until now...



Heat-shrink tubing, used to insulate electrical connections. This is the smallest I could get- 1.6mm- but I think it will work.
I want to shrink the ends down to fit over my 3D-printed nozzle, which is about 0.6mm diameter, but I need to control the amount of shrinkage so I found a piece of metal tube 1.6mm diameter, and inserted a pin in the end



This stops the whole tube from shrinking.



I was relieved to find the tube still slid out...
I made two of them and trimmed the thinner bits



I stuck the two ends together with ca and left them to set, to be absolutely sure



Then I glued the rest of the tubes together and stuck the nozzle in



I then added the other details as before, from lead foil and solder



And painted it



Works for me.
Phew!

I didn’t have a plan B so I am quite chuffed. I’m particularly pleased with the way the black tubes go into the main body, it has behaved just like the real thing.
Thanks everyone for following, the end is in sight!
Cheers Neil

[Jim R]

Honestly Neil that is so, so clever and so effective. Well done.
With your inventiveness you should move away from modelling, invent something useful, you'll be rich in no time

[scottie3158]

That is a fantastic piece of thinking and execution. I would never have thought of that.