Here Come the Marines!

[jcf]

Painting the pilot-house blue and putting a light on top would be anachronistic ...
er, that is ... umm, yeah. Never mind.

[Old Wombat]

This could be a bit macabre but here we go;

Petty Officer coxswain's head



Leading Seaman gunner's head



Able Seaman gunner's head



The first of each image is much larger than the actual figure heads & show far too many painting errors, still I'm not really a figure painter so I can live with it, the second image shows the head at close to real size (on my screen, anyway).


Now, a quick few questions for a quasi-poll;

A) Do I paint the LCM in one colour?
B) Do I paint the LCM in a splinter scheme?
C) Do I paint the LCM in a swirly/wavy scheme?
D) Do I paint the LCM in a blotchy scheme?

If you have an opinion, answer A, B, C, or D ... I will look at the answers in a few days & make my decision (which may/may not reflect the results of the quasi-poll).


Thanks for dropping by!       

[zenrat]

B) Splinter.  Don't know if it would have been effective IRL but it'd look awesome.

[NARSES2]

I think the coxswain's head in particular looks very good Wombie    Mind you he does remind me of one of the old skippers who used to run the mackrel fishing trips out of Torquay harbour when I was a kid 

As for paint job ?

C) Do I paint the LCM in a swirly/wavy scheme

[DeeBob]

The seamen look characterful! Surely it's got to be splinter, anything in splinter camouflage automatically becomes more WW2 '46

[kerick]

I think I would go with splinter.

[Charlie_c67]

Is it bad that every time I see this thread title, my brain sings it along to this tune?   

[buzzbomb]

or one, I like how the heads came up, that style works perfectly well for figures setting a scene for a vehicle.

Colour scheme, really any are appropriate, pending the where and the when, but as I know where and when, the Splinter style B is perhaps more in my taste

[Old Wombat]

Is it bad that every time I see this thread title, my brain sings it along to this tune?   

Bad?    Probably not. 

Slightly weird?    Yep! 

[Old Wombat]

The Petty Officer cox'n completed;




2nd image = about life-size (on my screen) or about 4.8cm or 1 ²⁹/₃₂".

The lanyard leads to a pistol (holster) on his right hip.

Amusingly, all this effort & you'll probably only be able to see the top of his head clearly. 

[jcf]

Hundreds of landing craft approaching beaches where the Japanese knew they had to land isn't exactly a stealth operation. In those conditions would camouflage actually be of any use? The landing craft would also be on their transports until quite close to limit the amount of time they'd have to be in the water, in those circumstances would there be any point to camouflage. The transports and support ships were going to be the main targets of the kamikazes, not the warships, so any landing craft still on their transport would be ancillary damage regardless of whether or not they were camouflaged.
It wasn't going to be riverine warfare or sneaking upon a tropical island.

Anything, and everything, in the littoral zone off of the south side of Kyushu was going to be a target, there wasn't going to be any picking of targets where some sort of camouflage might be of use, plus most the attacks were going come from the air and wakes can't be camouflaged. The landing craft weren't going to be hiding from conventional surface combatants or subs.

[NARSES2]

Cox'n looks good Wombie   

[kitbasher]

Cox'n looks good Wombie   

indeed it does   

[zenrat]

Hundreds of landing craft approaching beaches where the Japanese knew they had to land isn't exactly a stealth operation. In those conditions would camouflage actually be of any use? The landing craft would also be on their transports until quite close to limit the amount of time they'd have to be in the water, in those circumstances would there be any point to camouflage. The transports and support ships were going to be the main targets of the kamikazes, not the warships, so any landing craft still on their transport would be ancillary damage regardless of whether or not they were camouflaged.
It wasn't going to be riverine warfare or sneaking upon a tropical island.

Anything, and everything, in the littoral zone off of the south side of Kyushu was going to be a target, there wasn't going to be any picking of targets where some sort of camouflage might be of use, plus most the attacks were going come from the air and wakes can't be camouflaged. The landing craft weren't going to be hiding from conventional surface combatants or subs.

So plain grey paint but with a massive sharkmouth?

[Old Wombat]

Thanks, guys!     

Plain grey is the least preferred of the options, to me, &, sometimes, logic is not the answer.

Spare track links & sandbag "armour" were useless at providing extra protection to tanks during WW2, actually they often improved the penetration effect of AT rounds hitting them & they added unnecessary extra weight to the tank, but psychologically they allowed the tankers to think they were safer.

The tankers, therefore, went into battle more confidently than they otherwise would have, worrying less about hiding from enemy AT weapons & focussing more on attacking the enemy, which is how battles are, & were, won.

I'm trending towards either B or C, at the moment.