Digital full size plans on Cd Scale 1:16 Landing Craft Assault Suitable for radio control

Digital full size plans on Cd

Not a printed plan and no material supplied

Landing Craft Assault

Full Size printed plans on a sheet 33” x 28”

One page of description

For modelers with scratch building experience

No building notes not a difficult build

Scale 1:16

Length 31.063

Beam 7 ¾”

Suitable for radio control

Original 1:48 scale drawing by P.N. Thomas

Landing Craft Assault (LCA) was a Landing craft  used extensively in World War II. Its primary purpose was to ferry troops from transport ships to attack enemy-held shores. The craft derived from a prototype designed  by John I. Thornycroft Ltd . of Woolston, HampshireUK  During the war it was manufactured throughout the United Kingdom in places as various as small boatyards and furniture manufacturers.

Typically constructed of hardwood planking and selectively clad with armour plate, this shallow-draft barge -like boat with a crew of four could ferry an infantry plantoon of 31, with space to spare for five additional specialist troops, to shore at 7 Knots (13 km/h). Men generally entered the boat by walking over a gangplank from the boat deck of a troop transport as the LCA hung from its davits. When loaded, the LCA was lowered into the water. Soldiers exited by the boat's bow ramp.

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