Landing Craft, Assault — Operation Infatuate I, 1 November 1944 (1:35 Gecko kit)

[Waspie]

I have to admit I understand little of the technical 'stuff'. But I am in awe of the detail and lengths you go to Jakko to achieve the perfect representation.

[Guest]

I probably wouldn’t normally go to these lengths, but, well …

[Scratchbuilder]

Jakko, you have some work on your hands there... I can see the end of your build - "Here is the box it came in - and here is the model I scratch built..."
Some great work going on here, seat drawn up and tea and biscuits on hand.

[Tim Marlow]

Jakko, you have some work on your hands there... I can see the end of your build - "Here is the box it came in - and here is the model I scratch built..."
Some great work going on here, seat drawn up and tea and biscuits on hand.

At least if you scratchbuild it all the resulting issues are yours alone

[Scratchbuilder]

At least if you scratchbuild it all the resulting issues are yours alone

Very true.

[Guest]

you have some work on your hands there... I can see the end of your build - "Here is the box it came in - and here is the model I scratch built..."

Almost, yeah … But at least I can use most of the detail parts that are hard to scratchbuild Though I can still go, “Here is the box it came in, and it’s filled to capacity with the parts I had left over.”

Some great work going on here, seat drawn up and tea and biscuits on hand.

Thanks

[Guest]

Engine room bulkhead fitted with armour plate, as well as a correct size of door and steps:

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The only parts from the kit are the bulkhead and the four door handles … and I’m not sure the latter are correct, but I didn’t feel like scratchbuilding four that look like some I’ve seen in a photograph.

Making that, though, this happened:

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That’s a 0.6 mm domed punch from RP Toolz, which broke part of the way through making the rivets for the bulkhead This is why some are domed and the rest are flat, but nothing to be done about that. At least flat rivets are quicker to put on, because you don’t have to peer at them to see which side should go outward

I made this drawing to show basic size and details:

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No guarantees these dimensions are absolutely accurate, as some were deduced from measurements taken in photographs, which I couldn’t always fit to dimensions taken from the drawings.

BTW, I have the impression Gecko got the door basically right in terms of size, but mistook the size of the opening for that of the door itself. Pictures show that the door is bigger than the opening, to provide a good seal of course — which is also why there are no rivets in the drawing alongside the door: those are covered by it.

And in the hull:

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I first glued the floor in place with tube cement, because of the difficulty of getting liquid cement underneath it, and weighed it down with two pots of that liquid cement to firmly press it onto the ribs in the hull:

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And with the deck temporarily in place:

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This because the bulkhead has little tabs at the top that locate in recesses on the underside of the deck, so it’s best to get those lined up correctly too.

[scottie3158]

Jakko,
Cracking work mate, that engine bulkhead is superb.

[Guest]

Thanks Making the drawing took about as long as making the part …

[Jim R]

Excellent research and scratch building.

[Mini Me]

Worth the effort though :thumb2:

[minitnkr]

Excellent silkpursery.

[Guest]

Thank you all Already working on the next bit, the hull sides, which are also in need of “some” work …

[Fernando N]

Neat backstory and top notch for your corrections Jakko :thumb2:

[The Smythe Meister]

Well, what a fascinating read that was!! Loving how this looks Jakko.... I have a part built Italeri LC on the shelf, and, compared to what I've just watched you produce,I might as well have just bought a shoe box and called it an LC!!
Outstanding stuff mate, looking forward to the next update :thumb2: