Cruel Seas: Scotia Grendel LCI (S)

The Landing Craft Infantry (Small) was a small ship designed to carry troops from their base and unload them directly onto a beach after it had been stormed using small assault landing craft. They were never intended to lead an assault.

You can find out more about these craft here.

 This Scotia-Grendel model is from their high quality Ship-to-Shore 1:300 range of landing craft, designed to compliment their microarmour models.

It has a resin hull with many metal small-detail components. I always find these a pain to put together but the results are excellent.

The model is clearly based on a model in the Imperial War Museum of LCI(S) 507. This example was armed with two 20 mm autocannon for defence. Later models had four or even five 20 mm AA guns (plus whatever their crews could 'acquire' and weld on).

I added an extra 20 mm on the bow and a twin MG aft from spare bits.

Just to illustrate how small these craft really were, here is one alongside a Warlord Games plastic Vosper MTB in the same scale.

Final another IWM photo of the real 507.