Scale: 1:16. British troops had been forced to withdraw from France in 1940 and Greece in 1941. If they were to return to mainland Europe to confront the Axis armies, they would have to fight their way ashore. This required huge numbers of landing craft to carry the men and supplies to the beaches. While the major dockyards were needed for building the bigger warships, many small yards in Britain were used for the construction of landing craft of various types. One of these was the D Badcock (Marine) Ltd Yard, formerly the London yard, at Cubitt Town on the Isle of Dogs, London. Badcock built four large LCTs (tank landing craft). As they could carry several tanks, they played an important part in amphibious operations alongside the smaller LCAs (assault landing craft) and other vessels. The device on the fo'csle is called a Fast Aerial Mine or FAM.

The later LCT 4 was only armed with two 20 mm oerlikons, 2 PAC aft and 2 smoke launchers forward. The early group of LCT 4 only had the PAC and smoke launchers.

The Badcock yard had earlier built eighteen smaller LCMs (Landing Craft Mechanised). The LCM was able to carry a single tank or two lorries. The company also built for the Admiralty two CFFTs (coastal forces fuel tenders). The model depicts ‘TLC914’ and ‘TLC916’, both Mark IV tank landing craft, built for use in the tropics. They were 185 feet in length, between perpendiculars and 200 tons. This variant was built by a plethora of small yards between 1942 and 1945. They had a capacity of either nine Sherman or Cromwell tanks, or six Churchill tanks, or 300 tons of cargo. They were armed with eight 20mm Oerlikon cannon and four two pounder pom-poms. The model is one of a set of five, all made by Bassett-Lowke Ltd, showing various craft built for the Admiralty by Badcock (see SLR1578).