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Offline Old Wombat

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Here Come the Marines! (Part 1)
« on: April 08, 2026, 05:17:02 PM »
The Royal Australian Marines, that is!  ;)


This is half of the build I'm doing for the Operation Downfall GB over on WIM.

Where I'm at right now;



72 of those little PE angle iron strakes. Almost as bad as doing indi-link tracks! ... Almost! 
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Re: Here Come the Marines! (Part 1)
« Reply #1 on: April 09, 2026, 05:29:00 AM »
Nice... not seen a lot of these built so very keen.
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Re: Here Come the Marines! (Part 1)
« Reply #2 on: April 09, 2026, 08:03:29 AM »
Trumpeter or Italieri LCM kit?
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Offline Old Wombat

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Re: Here Come the Marines! (Part 1)
« Reply #3 on: April 09, 2026, 05:53:33 PM »
Thanks, BT!  :smiley:


Quote from: Jeffry Fontaine on April 09, 2026, 08:03:29 AM
Trumpeter or Italieri LCM kit?

Trumpeter.

I've read enough to know it may have some issues BUT it's what I could get at the time & it seems to (thankfully) have less reinforcing angle-iron ridges than the Italeri kit.  ;)
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Re: Here Come the Marines! (Part 1)
« Reply #4 on: April 12, 2026, 10:47:06 PM »
I think not having touched plastic for six months has messed with my modelling (over-)confidence because, for a relatively simple build, this one is really taking a long time to kick into gear!  :-\

And it hasn't been helped by the fact that, realising that this is going to go into a diorama, I need to include a crew - including the coxswain.

So I've been hunting through my figure sets for the parts to smash together into a Franken-cox to go into the pilot house.

I've also been working on mod's to the pilot house & the gun positions.

I hope to get three, maybe four builds done over the next few months ... At this rate I'll be lucky to get this one done!  :o :o
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Re: Here Come the Marines! (Part 1)
« Reply #5 on: Yesterday at 05:30:45 AM »
Quote from: Old Wombat on April 12, 2026, 10:47:06 PM
And it hasn't been helped by the fact that, realising that this is going to go into a diorama, I need to include a crew - including the coxswain.
So I've been hunting through my figure sets for the parts to smash together into a Franken-cox to go into the pilot house.

I have this set, well most of it, I have used a couple of figures. You are welcome to it if it helps. Although they are dressed for more cooler weather than Japanese summer.

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Offline Old Wombat

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Re: Here Come the Marines! (Part 1)
« Reply #6 on: Yesterday at 11:42:30 PM »
Nah, it's fine, mate! I've bodged up a cox'n using bits from various figures from a MiniArt British Jeep Crew Set (35051) & some Aves.

Looking at photo's of WW2 RAN crewmen I discovered that the early iterations of the old No.8 & 8a uniforms were created for service in the Pacific Campaign



So far this is the only image of the No. 8s I could find online (a bit earlier than my era)



However, there's a fair chance the uniforms in the older photo are sand/khaki in colour, rather than blue.
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Re: Here Come the Marines! (Part 1)
« Reply #7 on: Today at 01:04:40 AM »
This is the uniform I'm basing mine from - except with long trousers.


From: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10228428077280679&set=pcb.3698323413771187
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