Building the Trumpeter 1/35 LCM 3 Landing craft 

Good show. Love all the comments which are all fellow hobbyists. I am very pleased with all the videos, reference photos online, aftermarket companies & the subjects put out by these wonderful model companies. I just wish the costs were not so expensive. I wonder about the thumbs down viewers. What are they expecting? These video reviews are really fun to watch.

Nice build. good looking kit. just for reference... the color you wanted when painting that was actually called Intermediate Blue (blue-gray) and sometimes called navy blue. Its The same color as sides of 3 tone painted WW2 navy planes, the over all color of early WW2 navy planes and over all color of USS Arizona.

Thanks Andy I really like the subject. Last summer while recovering from a bad accident and a broken back I took up model building after a 40 year hiatus. The first thing I built was Revell's LCM with jeep and trailer. It was great fun and the first of many builds some of them inspired by yours. Thanks for putting them out there. PS. I built the Big Bertha you sold me and it is an awesome model....It would make a good build video, hint, hint.

It's amazing how cheaply these things were manufactured. I'm really surprised more soldiers didn't get killed. It took some real guts to do what these guys did.

Glad to see military kits again Andy, and that relaxing music of course became your trademark. Welldone

I just completed this kit and utilized your paint ratio...I think you nailed it! This was my first "ship" of any type to build. Your tips in the video were right on the money and helpful. I since have started on the Italeri 1/35 LCI "Higgins" boat.

Looking pretty good there Andy. Only two things I would have done differently: 1 - instead of using the decals for the diamonds and the "US113", I would have made stencils & painted them with hairspray under it ; 2 - I would have used gun metal for the scratches. 😉 Man! Almost every one of your videos makes me add another kit to my build list. I really do enjoy your videos. Keep up the good work.

I feel inspired I need to build one of theses for a massive Wargame I have planned

Interesting diorama possibilities there.

Very nicely done. I'm looking forward to the Sherman and the overall diorama.

Just visited your webpage would recommend to get paint and other things ex. Tweezers cutters etc. Has a great selection of stuff for modelers and is easy to use will get next model from here

Great build, and glad to see an airbrush used instead of an artist brush makes for a better, more realistic paint job. However a lot of things should have been painted individually (usually while still attached to the sprues), just prior to assembly, as painting afterward is almost if not impossible to do after assembly for individual parts without messing up the whole paint job, and overall effect. Thanks for sharing.

One of my favourite model subjects of all-time ever since Airfix brought out their 1/72 example way back in 1966. You need to remember most LCMs were only used once, going into Normandy. As they were brand new, weathering would have been minimal.

It must be such a drag going in to work each day! Another great build video

nice build! i once build a 1/72 version of it that came with a plastic diorama base. Made some custom beach obstacles and bullet splashes. :)

I find having different types of glue helps in some cases there is no replacement for the old tube glue. Testers

Great looking build, about to build a dio myself

I do love the trumpeter kits

another awesome video Andy cnt wait to see the dio all done up looking forward to the next one

Great idea for a diorama Andy! Very nice work on the landing craft as well!

Andy, I know you don't use primer but I have to protest your not using it with the PE and brass barrels. The paint is sure to scrap off at some point. If only it where made from steel or aluminum then scratches would look like chipping. Great build, as per usual, cheers

Just like LCVPs they were largely constructed from plywood, so keep that in mind when weathering them.

Nice work Andy. Looking forward to the Sherman vid.

Amazing job! Now I'm on my way to my 1/48 KV-1 w/ Applique Armour XD

blue gray look good

very cool kit that be cool if it came with a Sherman

Mr. Andy; You're always educating me about things so I figured I'd reciprocate and edju-micate you a bit, since you do so many armored vehicles and not boats, or ships. The drivers position is called the wheelhouse, which in this case was lightly armored. The driver is called the Coxswain, pronounced Cox-in. He is actually, when underway, the Captain of the boat, and incharge of all personnel and equipment onboard, even ossifers, oops... I meant officers, LOL. Nice looking boat looks very life like.

This would have been the ultimate full interior kit

Very nice. I just "finished" a Higgins boat from Italeri (minus the 28 figures), and man, the rope on that one was annoying.

Andy è Bellissimo!!!!!!!!!!

Looks great! nice build

Best work friend

It looks sooo nice

A great job, Andy

really nice, looking forward to the dio, want to see how your going to work with water. my Achilles heel.

Great Job Andy, see you soon!

I would love to see you build Tamiya's 1/35 Churchill Crocodile

Nice work !!!

Very cool as usual 👍🏻😀👍🏻

Great job, as usual

Very cool Build I can't wait to see the rest of it. In the future can we please have a train build?

as a teen, I built hundreds of models. ($5.00 each at the time) buy prices sure have changed. I would love to get back into model building (I'm now 52) sadly I'm also a disabled Veteran (army) with 18 years service, and living on Army Disability Pay (aka dirt poor), which means it's less than affordable to buy everything again. (I do have a good airbrush compressor, and a crappy airbrush lol) but to buy all the paint needed and other painting supplies on top of the cost of the models makes it just too expensive. (if I could work, it would be different) I also live in the Country, and there is not a good hobby shop within a 4 hours drive (one way). it's really too bad. I really enjoyed building them in the 1980's. and these days, living with severe chronic pain, anytime you can occupy your mind for several hours or more, is time your no longer thinking about pain. (more effective than pain meds).

good job!

Very nice, it would be good if you could get a British L.C.A. in 1/35 or even 1/48 but there are none out there

Nice work sir, really like how you build these model kits!

Hello Andy, can you tell me where from come both figurines, I cannot find... Thank you for all yours videos...

great build :-)

Hi Andy, well you have completed another great kit. Are you going to place in a scene, or just on a base a some sort. I look forward to seeing the finished 'job' with the Sherman installed. Great Job. Les

Parabéns!

Looking really good. How was fit and all that? Im hesitant to build some of the early trumpeter`s kit.

Made the mistake of falling asleep with the playlist on, Yep 6 hours of Eine Kleine Nachtmusik.....Holy Crap Its in my head like Scanners and I cant get it out. wat did you seal it with btw

please do a video for the tamiya hanomag 1:35 im planning on getting one so it would be nice if you would do one

was just admireing ur nice wirk andy waa wondering if u only sell military models at ur store or other kind like (cars,suv) etc n where can i look at ur webstore thanks👍👍

very nice job! Well done! ;)

nice build and vid. :-)

Can you make a video of Tamiya's Jadgtiger? The early production tank model?

HI Andy, wonderful video as usual, interesting model. I was having trouble with bonding some stowage that I painted onto the floor of a Hanomag. I was using Tamiya Cement, and I've heard that it won't bond properly if there's paint on the contact point. What can I use to bond painted parts? Or should I just glue it all down and paint it together? Thanks.

Love that kit gr8 job how much is it andy?

Hey Andy what would you get for Soviet WWII dioarama I narrowed it down to Trumpeter KV-1 and Zvezda IS-2

These ships can be built just with sheets. The hull has no double curved shapes. Quite an interesting mass production oriented design.

Really nice done again. A little question, with what product do you use to seal the paint?

model master usn 5-O grey might be the color u want

Quick question; I want to get back into model building after a 40 year layoff. I used to build ships and airplanes by Revell, Lindberg and Monogram. Who do you recommend today? Trumpeter makes better model kits? Thanks for your time.

Hello1!! where can I find your store??

Sorry I wasn't here my wifi went out:)

Do you send models on your online store to Australia? Please answer . If yes then I most likely buy a kit. Thanks

Could you make it RC controlled?

You switched out the machine gun barrels -- what were the metal parts you used for that? \\][//

i myself would have put a Stuart with USMC markings instead of a Sherman but that is just me.

what airbrush are you using?

The actual color as per U.S. Navy spec is supposed to be "Haze Gray".

Andy need to correct you a little, LCM's were not used on D Day, well not in the way that you describe, the LCM's dropped off what tanks that were landed on day 1 some way off shore, these were called Hobarts funnies, and looked nothing like the Sherman you built, in fact the US lost most of theirs ( and the crews) because they failed to allow for the rip tides around the beaches, most of the armour came ashore via the mulberry harbours on D Day +1 and 2. The tanks would have got bogged down on the beaches in the shingle and the sand, lessons learned from the failed raid on Dieppe.

Just a comment for the algorithm.

What's the music you use in your vids ?

I have the same thing as you

What do you mean with parts

Where can I get this model?

There are no blue LCU s WEST PAC 85, WEST PAC 88 WEST PAC 90

I thought the landing craft were almost entirely wood bodies. (making rusting pretty limited)

Whst glue do you use?

what do you use to seal your models?

does it float on water?

빨르다

do you have a eBay or Amazon account

Did you forget to put the props on first ! .. lol

I have a question, what is the name of this song?

the first color u use, how is? n the second?

Жаль, что сама модель неправильная. Она вытянута вверх! пропорции нарушены. Мерил - собирал эту модель. не собрал! Настроение пропало, перепиливать надо ВСЕ.

i think the plastic is not delicate

Hey Andy, can you do the BR52 or BR86 Locomotives? please not many people do full builds on them.

I built one of these for my son. Amdnit actually is remote controlled. . There is only one rudder that. There is only one electric motorwith a prop. The small props rudders are glued and fixed