looking for early helo pics
Tue Jan 20, 2009 2:29 am
of the Sikorski HO-1 or H-5 for my uncle...
Jack I noticed your thread and it made me think of this...You got any hidden in your stash? I'd be like to buy one if it's a good shot of a Marine bird...I'd have to wait a bit but I would like to get a good one for him:)
I'm also looking for a model of any of the various makes, but can't find one...Anybody got a suggestion?
Jack I noticed your thread and it made me think of this...You got any hidden in your stash? I'd be like to buy one if it's a good shot of a Marine bird...I'd have to wait a bit but I would like to get a good one for him:)
I'm also looking for a model of any of the various makes, but can't find one...Anybody got a suggestion?
Tue Jan 20, 2009 3:49 am
Several years ago an Eastern European company called PAVLA made an R-4 kit (mixed media) in 1/72nd. It wasn't the greatest but it wasn't that bad just lots of photo etch and rude castings that could be coaxed into looking like rotor blades with a lot of massaging
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Tue Jan 20, 2009 7:19 am
Muddyboots,
I may be able to help with photos of the Sikorsky H-5 (USMC/Navy designation HO2S or HO3S, depending upon model) when I return home in a few days. The HO-1 designation has me scratching my head. That was a Hiller experimental design. Did you mean something else? Shoot me a PM as a reminder and let me see what I can dig up for you.
I may be able to help with photos of the Sikorsky H-5 (USMC/Navy designation HO2S or HO3S, depending upon model) when I return home in a few days. The HO-1 designation has me scratching my head. That was a Hiller experimental design. Did you mean something else? Shoot me a PM as a reminder and let me see what I can dig up for you.
Tue Jan 20, 2009 1:52 pm
Lordy Craig, all those different designations just got me confused. What I am looking for is the Marine version of the Sikorsky H-5, or HO2S. I am pretty sure he's calling them an HO-1 tho. It is the three seat version where they took one side's door out and loaded wounded in crossways behind the pilot. I believe the HO3S' main difference was in the seating arrangement-it was refitted to more easily load wounded into it.
this is the version after the one I am looking for. It's close, but not quite. If I'm going to get him a photo, I'd like it to be the one he worked on specifically (you know how picky air nuts are--it'll bug him
Now, the model could be any of the H-5's because I can modify it to make it right.
Inspector, I'm looking for the version right after the R4. The H-5 had a rounded look to it. I'm pretty sure HMX-1 (the unit his crews and helo's was pulled out of) had traded all their R-4's in by the time he got there. I know there was at east one of the H-5's produced somewhere, and there is a fiberglass body that you can put an RC helicopter into, but it's sort of large, and converting it would be a pain in the tuchus...
this is the version after the one I am looking for. It's close, but not quite. If I'm going to get him a photo, I'd like it to be the one he worked on specifically (you know how picky air nuts are--it'll bug him
Now, the model could be any of the H-5's because I can modify it to make it right.
Inspector, I'm looking for the version right after the R4. The H-5 had a rounded look to it. I'm pretty sure HMX-1 (the unit his crews and helo's was pulled out of) had traded all their R-4's in by the time he got there. I know there was at east one of the H-5's produced somewhere, and there is a fiberglass body that you can put an RC helicopter into, but it's sort of large, and converting it would be a pain in the tuchus...
Tue Jan 20, 2009 3:47 pm
I photographed this one 'out the back' at Luton here in the UK.
Ex Royal Navy and serial KL112.
The scrap man got it.
PeterA
Ex Royal Navy and serial KL112.
The scrap man got it.
PeterA