Italeri 1/72 H04S-3 "Horse" Royal Canadian Navy

[J14]

Hey Everybody,

Stumbled upon this GB last night and decided to join....albeit a bit late I see.

I plan to build this kit in the markings of the Royal Canadian Navy. (Love that the Gov. has brought that name back!)

I havn't built an aircraft kit in about 20 years (I am 37 now) so I am looking forward to this build. I started out building AC kits when I was a kid but moved over to armour where I have been ever since. (British/Allied WW2 and some modern.) So my AC building skills are pretty weak!

I have had this kit kicking around for a couple years and this GB will be a perfect reason to actually build it. I am not going to get all fussed about details. I seem to remember reading that this kit isn't exactly the one used by the RCN. The tail rotor slopes down where the one used by the RCN was straight. I just want to open the box and build it like when I was a kid and not worry about getting everything perfect.

The only AM I will use will be a decal set by CanMilAir to augment the kit supplied decal sheet.

Here is a pic of the kit. Wish me luck and look for an update very soon. Will hopefully get started tonight after my boys go to bed. Cheers Jeff

 

[Chris S]

Hi Jeff ,

Looks like a nice little build to break yourself in with . Cant wait to see how you get on

Chris.

 

[JMac]

Very cool.

 

[Myke]

Awesome. Nice to see a CHOPPAH in the works here.

 

[13aceofspades13]

that looks like a cool project, kind of looks like a egg copter.

 

[J14]

Alright so I don't have a whole lot of progress yet but I did manage to get a bit done last night. I promised myself that I would just build this thing and not get too worried (distracted) about making it perfect.

However I went online last night and found a few build reviews (why do I do this?) that showed all the things that need to be tweaked on it. However I am sticking to my original plans and other then a few minor things its going to pretty much be a OOB build.

Sort of the "if it looks like a duck" school of thought you might say.

Did alot of cleaning up and dry fitting, got the tail boom glued and did a little painting of the interior etc. Its a pretty simple little kit and I was pretty impressed with the detail and how well the tail halves went together.

So here is it so far.

Jeff

 

[J14]

Here is the picture.......whoops.

 

[noname]

This is pretty cool because it isn't often seen...and it's Canadian! ;D

 

[J14]

This is pretty cool because it isn't often seen...and it's Canadian! ;D

Yeah it should look pretty good when its done. Nice and colourful anyways. These choppers from the 50's are unique looking.

 

[schweinhund227]

I have the belcher decals for it I think?
If you need them?

8)

Norm.

 

[J14]

I have the belcher decals for it I think?
If you need them?

8)

Norm.

Hi Norm, Thanks for the offer. I have a set from CanMilAir that I am going to use. Between the kit ones and them I should be okay. Cheers!

 

[JMac]

This is pretty cool because it isn't often seen...and it's Canadian! ;D

I'm not the CRTC, but I'll tell you Canadian content is a good thing.
Really, I thing this is going to be a very cool looking build J14, unique.

 

[schweinhund227]

Hey we could gather the few CANUCK here and get a RCAF/RCN planes or Egg beaters GB one of these days...? The Cold war era had some pretty wicked Airframes to chose from.... and the paint schemes were High Vis ! something to pounder ??

Looking forward to your next update on this.... I always wanted to do a RCN chopper but... never got to it...

 

[JMac]

Hey we could gather the few CANUCK here and get a RCAF/RCN planes or Egg beaters GB one of these days...? The Cold war era had some pretty wicked Airframes to chose from.... and the paint schemes were High Vis ! something to pounder ??

I'm not trying to hi-jack this thread, but good idea. We should keep that in mind for after next years contest as a post contest unwind. MMM...me thinks a 1972 Tiger meet Starfighter

 

[J14]

Hey we could gather the few CANUCK here and get a RCAF/RCN planes or Egg beaters GB one of these days...? The Cold war era had some pretty wicked Airframes to chose from.... and the paint schemes were High Vis ! something to pounder ??

I'm not trying to hi-jack this thread, but good idea. We should keep that in mind for after next years contest as a post contest unwind. MMM...me thinks a 1972 Tiger meet Starfighter

Hi-jack away! That would be a great idea. I have a Monogram Voodoo I would love to do.

Could do it in recognition of the return of the Royal Canadian Air Force and Royal Canadian Navy names.

 

[schweinhund227]

Bingo!

Excellent idea!

Let's bring it up after the big contest! Super!

 

[13aceofspades13]

looking really sweet bud, keep up the good work.

 

[ModelFreak72]

The chopper is looking good so far, always liked sikorsky's design's! As far as a Canadian build I was thinking a P-51 or dare I say an f-86?

 

[schweinhund227]

Were you able to work on her during the weekend?

It's like sitting 20 feet in the air while flying this thing off a Deck.... Wow!

 

[Hodges]

Looking great! And you know I'm down for an all-Canadian group build! I've been itching to build me a CF-104.