The “Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel (LCVP for short) or “Higgins boat” was a landing craft used extensively by Allied forces for amphibious landings in World War II. Typically constructed from plywood, this shallow-draft, barge-like boat could ferry about soldiers to shore at up to 9 knots.

Designer Andrew Higgins originally was working on a design based on boats made for operating in swamps and marshes. The Japanese had been using ramp-bowed landing and work boats called the Daihatsu-class in the Second Sino-Japanese War since the summer of 1937. After intense scrutiny by Navy and Marine Corps observers at the Battle of Shanghai, future General Victor H. Krulak showed Higgins a picture and suggested that Higgins develop a version of the ramped craft for the Navy. Higgins, at his own expense, started his designers working on adapting the idea to the boat design. More than 23,358 were built by Higgins Industries and licensees.

Taking the last letter of the LCVP designation, sailors often nicknamed the Higgins Boat the "Papa Boat" or "Peter Boat"

All Models come unpainted. There are three scales available:

6mm scale SLA PRINTED -no payloads with guns printed in place

This model is about 36x10 MM or 37x11 MM at the extremes

15-20mm scale FDM PRINTED - the model features gun tubs but no guns

This model is about 108x30 MM or 113x34 MM at the extremes

28mm **scale **FDM PRINTED - the model features gun tubs but no guns

This model is about 220x60 MM or 225x68 MM at the extremes