Model Boat Mayhem
The Shipyard ( Dry Dock ): Builds & Questions => Navy - Military - Battleships: => Topic started by: mudway on August 14, 2018, 12:10:53 am
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Does anyone know where there are plans for the Landing Craft Tank Mks 2 or 3 at all?
Aberdeen seem to have GAs but no hull lines.
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Maybe steve pickstock may know, are you talking about the type done by Airfix (1:72) or Italiara (1:35)?
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Niether in 1/72 these would be 32 inches long.
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Sorry, I'm old and confused :-))
The thread is LST and the rest is LCT. Which is it please?
The reason I ask is the LST was the US built version and there's loads of stuff on HNSA.org
Tony
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On the assumption we are talking LCT 2 and 3, the GA drawings I have of a number of the LCTs pretty much allow you to deduce the sectional shape of the hull as they were made of flat steel sheets and the GAs show deck and bottom level edges. I am not familiar with Aberdeen as a source of GA plans but mine were obtained from the Royal Marines Museum at Eastney which has a fair quantity of material on WW2 landing craft. Do the GAs you have seen show more than one plan view of the LCT?
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http://www.aagm.co.uk/Visit/AberdeenMaritimeMuseum/amm-overview.aspx
They hold a lot of plans from the Lewis shipyard as well as the Hall shipyard , Russell shipyard and the combined Hall Russell shipyard when they amalgamated so might be worth a shout
http://www.aberdeenships.com/
^^ that is the website that will let you search their database for boats built in Aberdeen
http://www.aberdeenships.com/browse.asp?as_name=&as_date_from=&as_date_to=&as_type=LANDING+CRAFT+TANK&as_const=&as_desc=
shows 5 LCT's built and they hold plans for the LCT(3)'s
http://www.aberdeenships.com/related.asp?as_name=&as_date_from=&as_date_to=&as_type=LANDING+CRAFT+TANK&as_const=&as_desc=&index=47480&shipid=101509
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http://www.aberdeenships.com/image.asp?Id=47480&Size=Giant
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http://www.lutonmodelboat.co.uk/frame_history.html (http://www.lutonmodelboat.co.uk/frame_history.html)
few LST line drawings
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Sorry for the confusion, a typo. It is an LCT not LST. Brain fade.
I have tried Aberdeen but received no response. They have the GA online for an LCT 3 which I have downloaded.
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http://www.aagm.co.uk/Visit/AberdeenMaritimeMuseum/amm-overview.aspx
They hold a lot of plans from the Lewis shipyard as well as the Hall shipyard , Russell shipyard and the combined Hall Russell shipyard when they amalgamated so might be worth a shout
Thanks for the link and that's another useful source of info outside the usual official archives and museums.
The GA of the LCT3 that can be downloaded is very similar in layout and information presented to the ones I have from the RMM for the LCT2(R) and LCT3(R) and they all give an indication of the line of the hull bottom which allows you to work out what the section of the hull is at any particular point on the assumption that the sides are flat . I used that method when I drew up a plan for the LCT5 which was published by Traplet.
You might find Tim Perry's build of a LCT4 of interest in this context http://www.kipperboxes.co.uk/html/lct_hull_construction_page_1.html
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https://prints.rmg.co.uk/products/profile-decks-sections-plan-of-thornycroft-built-landing-craft-tank-7035-in-1943-j8911 https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/30018101
The pics from the iwm give a better idea of the stern lines.
There is another rmg plan but it depends how much you want to spend!
Tony
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Thanks. A friend has given me a book with a lot of data on landing craft and various GAs. The LCTs seem to be variations of the same hull starting with an LCT 2 becoming an LCT 3 by lengthening the hull. Then the LCT3 becomes an LCT 4 by shortening the hull and adding more beam. Alas not a hull section in any of the drawings.
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This has fore and aft ends as a guideline plus a general centre station.
https://prints.rmg.co.uk/products/docking-plan-of-thornycroft-built-landing-craft-tank-7035-in-1943-j8912
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Just to clarify what I have been saying about deriving hull sections from the GA drawings, the Aberdeen plan does give the hull section at about frame 56 at the right hand side of the plan. I have also attached a view of the lowest plan around this frame position with the relevant lines for the upper deck and hull bottoms marked in orange. When I plot the measurements out I get the same angle for the hull side as is given for the frame section. The text is a bit indistinct on the Aberdeen download but it is possible to work out where each frame is (they are 2' 0" apart) and it should be possible to work out enough hull sections for the bow and stern to get a correct result - the sides are vertical between frames 8 and 36 anyway. I can forward photos of the bow and stern sections of the LCT3(R) plan I have if you have any difficulty working from the download.
(http://village.photos/images/user/826efa06-e9db-4e56-be72-49c0965e8b36/bbee1dbe-f383-42fc-ade3-6d8be764d57f.jpg)
(http://village.photos/images/user/826efa06-e9db-4e56-be72-49c0965e8b36/68028edd-a62f-4f87-80d5-edfdd6259188.jpg)
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Guys....I'd be the first to advocate using a Plan to build a scale model...I also acknowledge that the cataloguing, digitizing then printing off a paper copy from old paper Plans...costs money in human labour
However paying $133.561 Australian dollars to the Royal Museums Greenwich is a little expensive >>:-( for a one sheet Plan [model length 1780mm]
Postage to Australia would probably bring this cost to $150 Australian Dollars ..................
In comparison, paper Plans....[highly detailed full sized at scale -2 in a set - many views & sections {model length 1680mm} of an Australian Fremantle Class Patrol Boat] from our Float a Boat Company in Melbourne cost $50 Australian Dollars
Derek
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Derek, even less if you know someone who has access to the real plans. ;)
So far from Aberdeen and the book I have in my possession, I have GAs for an LCT 2 & 3. The object is to get enough detail for Christian in Gibraltar to be able to make a hull in 1/72.
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Something tells me the DDay Museum at Portsmouth must have accesss to decent plans:
https://museumcrush.org/worlds-last-d-day-landing-craft-tank-to-be-restored-and-displayed-in-southsea/
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They might but no response yet to my email.
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You may try locating the builder of this beast in 1/16 scale.
https://youtu.be/WIDJqgWX1ic (https://youtu.be/WIDJqgWX1ic)
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Something tells me the DDay Museum at Portsmouth must have accesss to decent plans:
https://museumcrush.org/worlds-last-d-day-landing-craft-tank-to-be-restored-and-displayed-in-southsea/ (https://museumcrush.org/worlds-last-d-day-landing-craft-tank-to-be-restored-and-displayed-in-southsea/)
They have burst into life and have the plans. Now waiting for a quote.
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You may try locating the builder of this beast in 1/16 scale.
https://youtu.be/WIDJqgWX1ic (https://youtu.be/WIDJqgWX1ic)
Thanks, that one is an LCT 4.
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Yes, I know. Does good, though, especially in that scale since my LCM3 would look nice beside it.
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Does someone have some details on how to raise and lower the ramp at the front of a landing craft? I am building a model of a small landing craft ferry that is in service among some islands in Washington State and need the help. Thanks.
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Go to the forum home page, search facility, type in : lower ramp.
The results will give you lots of information about how others have overcome the problem O0
Regards,
Ray.
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Thanks, Ray. Lotsa good info there.
Dave
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They have burst into life and have the plans. Now waiting for a quote.
I would love to hear what they say they have available and how much they charge - hopefully not as much as The National Maritime Museum!