Zubr class LCAC - new tool, wrong scale

About a year ago, I reported falling in love with the Russion navy's Zubr class LCAC (Landing Craft Air Cushion), but unfortunately the only existing kit was Dragon's 1/700, hard to find and stupidly expensive on Ebay for some reason. I wasn't really impressed by it anyway.

In the december 2014 issue of FSM (Fine Scale Modeler) a Zubr was listed in the new product section. At first, I got really excited, but this too turned out to be 1/700 scale. While this may be a nice scale for many ships, for this kit it results in a model of about 8 centimeter (3 inch).
Now, if this were available in any scale rendering a model around 30 centimeters (one foot), I'd be throwing my money at it.

This resin kit from Gwylan models includes photo-etch, decals and a paint mask.
It's very nice looking, but in my eyes more suitable as part of a larger diorama, than as a stand-alone model. Still a kick-ass hovercraft, though!

I'm in love - again!

My eye was caught by the picture below on Facebook. This is the awesomest, most badass hovercraft I have ever seen. It's the Russian Zubr-class LCAC (Landing Craft Air Cushion).
If this exists as a kit somewhere, I *WANT* it.

Some more links :

• http://thebrigade.thechive.com/2013/05/07/friday-firepower-with-the-zubr-class-lcac-30-hq-photos/
• http://englishrussia.com/2008/05/09/russian-worlds-largest-military-hovercraft/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zubr-class_LCAC