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    Neil's Italeri 1/35 LCVP Landing Craft

    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...
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    Neil's Italeri 1/35 LCVP Landing Craft

    Well I was supposed to make an inflated life belt, but I got distracted. I have always intended to have a bucket kicking around (see what I did there ;) ..) somewhere, as shown here I have an old Tamiya one in the spares box, but it’s a bit knackered, and not in a good way, and if I...
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    Neil's Italeri 1/35 LCVP Landing Craft

    Ok, I have painted the life belts, and stuck them in, and a couple of other bits of CITF as well The kit bag came from the Italeri PT Boat Crew set There are also two lifebelt rings in the kit, with moulded ropes, which I was intending to just use OOB I painted them but I just...
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    Neil's Italeri 1/35 LCVP Landing Craft

    Once again thanks everyone for the interest and great comments. The next element of the CITF is the US M-1926 Life Belt as worn by almost all those going ashore during the invasion. PIC for reference only They were bulky and inconvenient with all the other equipment being worn and were...
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    Neil's Italeri 1/35 LCVP Landing Craft

    Thanks again for all the likes and comments. Just a quick update today. The scenario here is that this is the second or third trip to the beaches for this crew and there is stuff all over the place. Many of them would bring back the wounded on the return trip , which must have been disconcerting...
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    Neil's Italeri 1/35 LCVP Landing Craft

    Thanks for the interest and the excellent comments chaps. Not much to report, but I have painted and fitted the stern fender I think it's a bit out of scale, but at least I know how to do it again when I can't stand it any more.... And I have added to the CITF in the form of some tarps, made...
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    Neil's Italeri 1/35 LCVP Landing Craft

    Thanks Richard, but what I think of as a crepe bandage would not be suitable for this. Cheers Paul ,I am rather relieved. Anyway, I have had a bash at the stern fender! I started off by folding it like this, designed to give a fullness in the centre and taper towards the ends. It was...
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    Neil's Italeri 1/35 LCVP Landing Craft

    Thanks very much Brian and Paul. I know I promised you tarpaulins in the last instalment, but there's something more important that I need to get done first, and that's the ROPE FENDERS. This is what Italeri give you.... Apart from the fact that it’s hideous and doesn’t look like any of...
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    Latest Acquisitions (2024)

    I blame @Tim Marlow ...... :tongue-out2: at £4.99 for 18 brushes it's hardly going to make me cry if they don't work for dry-brushing. Obviously I will take full responsibility if they fail - a bad workman blames his tools....
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    Neil's Italeri 1/35 LCVP Landing Craft

    So I sprayed it all with Klear and gave it some washes and a bit of rust streaking with GW Agrax Earthshade ( one of their less exotic names) before going for the decals. I was agonising over which was the correct markings for which beach, with a view to making sure I have the correct unit...
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    Latest Acquisitions (2024)

    Just back from a couple of days away in Dorset with my daughter and granddaughter , and what should we pass on the way out yesterday? Bovington Tank Museum! I knew it was in the vicinity but with only two days together I was not going to make a big deal about it. BUT in the morning we went to...
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    Neil's Italeri 1/35 LCVP Landing Craft

    Today has been a day for the last bit of bling, in the form of two .30 cal Brownings. The Eduard set provides a flat sheet of perforated PE to bend and a tiny ring for the barrel, but I was having none of that, thank you very much! I bought a pair of lovely turned brass ones from...
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    Neil's Italeri 1/35 LCVP Landing Craft

    sorry guys, but there's only one hair product a veteran jiver such as myself could possibly consider.... and this really is me aged 19.....
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    Latest Acquisitions (2024)

    This has finally arrived. I saw it announced on Planet Figure and I was so taken with it I ordered it in advance. What's weird is that it's not my period of interest and not my preferred scale, but I just couldn't resist it. AND it's bloody navy blue!! No idea when I shall start it , but it...
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    Neil's Italeri 1/35 LCVP Landing Craft

    Well thanks very much chaps. If I hadn't studied so many pictures I would have said it was too much, but I do know it's actually not. Here are a few more pics I tidied up the tide mark too pretty much done with the chipping now. Thanks for following Neil
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    Neil's Italeri 1/35 LCVP Landing Craft

    My apologies; I got rather carried away with this chipping lark, concentrating on areas that might be hard to reach after assembly, and I ended up putting quite a bit of it together without taking any pics on the way. I’m not sure why but the top coat on the inside came off in massive chunks...
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    Neil's Italeri 1/35 LCVP Landing Craft

    Afternoon all. I am relieved to be able to announce that my first ever foray into the hairspray technique has not crashed and burned! I wanted to do the hull before it was attached to anything so that by turning it upside down I could get straight horizontal scrape lines. I used a number...
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    Neil's Italeri 1/35 LCVP Landing Craft

    I have now built all the sub-assemblies and primed them with Halfords rattle can grey . I then pre-painted them in the colours I believe to be the raw materials i.e. plywood , timber, steel, rusty steel and bronze(rudder and propeller and wheel) The next job is to hairspray the life out of...
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    Latest Acquisitions (2024)

    I've been very restrained for the last few years, working my way through the stash, but I saw a uniform plate of these boys and they look quite colourful. And Lord knows I need a change from bloody NAVY! I already have a load of Historex but this was quite a bargain on Fleabay so I took a punt...
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    Neil's Italeri 1/35 LCVP Landing Craft

    Well patience isn’t my strong suit but I had other things to do so the glue had plenty of time to dry, and it seems to have worked. I thought about trying to fabricate 4 identical bolts and then I thought ‘sod it , I’ll print them’- that way they will definitely be identical, even when they...

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