Hi everyone,

I was just on the Dust Models website (on the Coming Soon page). It seems they are going to release the amazing landing crafts displayed on the cover of some of their books.

$60. It doesn't say wen they will be available yet.

Enjoy.

wow,

i hate to say how much i like those. 60 bucks anit too bad. its not great, but ill probly get at least one..if for nothin more then a templet..

Well I guess I don't need to make my own anymore.

But it doesn't look as wide as the Op. Cyclone terrain tile versions, and with the machine gun emplacments it look like it looses two "squares" of space as well.

That is super sweet! I can not wait for those to come out. Looks like I am going to need a bigger bag.

Anyone know if the $60 is for the painted or unpainted one?

It doesn't clearly say deluxe or anything... Hoping I can get an unpainted on for maybe $30

Cost Vs. Size, I would assume that this is an unassembled model for 60.00. A deluxe edition I would imagine would run closer to the $90.00 mark

on the Facebook group, Olivier made a note about me wanting to use it for Cyclone missions and he mentioned its smaller in width than the tile. wont stop me from adapting it for the missions though..

That looks very cool cant wait till its out.

It does look great. Guess I will have to get a couple.

Landing craft sure looks good.

But for me it is kinda pointless. There are at least 2 1/48 kits on market for ww2 landing crafts , i would prefer something more tied to alternative universe, German jet fighters for example?

Poyet said:

Agreed, I mean, how often will you use them and to buy 3 at that price?

It's very cool, but with a $60 price tag and no real application outside of fancy surrogate board piece, I'll have to pass for now. FFG and Dust Models have been putting enough things on next years christmas list as is

How many missions would we use them in? And in those missions you use more than one... but ill prolly get one just to satisfy the completist in me.

I will more than likely end up with three. For the most part even though I like the board game rules I am just waiting on the table top rules and a DDay'ish table will look cool with the boats. Though it looks like it would be fairly easy to scratchbuild I find myself with more money than time lately so it all balances out.

What website has 1/48 scale wwii landing craft? ANy info would be appreciated.

mgentile7 said:

New Hobby plastic kit starting at $40 and up

www.google.com/search

Difference on the other company's landing craft is they are 50 foots, the DUST ones are 75 foot if I remember correctly. So the DUST ones should be much bigger. Just a note for people.

[so]Rice said:

Maybe, maybe not. The Hobby Boss kit is 12.5" x 4". The Dust website doesn't give dimensions of the kit, but if it follows the tile dimensions, it will be 11" long by 7.5" wide. So the LCM 46 will probably be shorter and wider. However, based on the website picture with the Mickey ARV, to me it doesn't look like you'll be able to fit two walkers abreast like the map tile.

I think the best advantage of the DM kit is that it's a waterline model rather than a full kit like the Hobby Boss. I think a waterline kit will look much better on the table.

Either way, you're going to have to be a pretty hard core Dust or WWWII gamer to want to build either kit.

rwwingate said:

I think the Hobby Boss kit could be converted to a "waterline" model, you just need to be good with a hobby saw.

Miah999 said:

What does waterline model mean? Is that the bottom is cut off so it looks like part of it is underwater?

Yup, the model is cut on the 'water line' so it appears as floating.

Quick google check tells you that scarab miniatures does one for example - ww2 around 20£ but i dont know ex. size

http://tommygun.sector-17.com/tommygun/main.php?g2_itemId=1089

some simple replacement till you gather founds fo DUsT orginal

Poyet said:

That's the Hobby boss kit, just at a better price.

Poyet said:

Sweet card stock model, but I don't think I can get pounder on it.

rwwingate said:

my bad with scarab landing craft.

card stock model is .png so no problem with rescaling it