Building a fleet of 1/72 Italeri UH-34 Seahorse's

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I always say the Wessex is so ugly it starts to be beautiful again…

But 18 builds at a time - that’s a bit unhealthy, at least feels a bit like a full time job.

Anyhow - good luck with your project, glad to see you rolling again

Paweł

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I know this is an old (6 years!) thread, but I found it while researching for a build of an H-34 in USCG colors…

I’m hoping John can fix the link to his image from back then…?

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I just purchased two Italieri UH-34D kits (two because I’m a butterfingers who will inevitablybreak/lose/destroy some vital piece before I’m finished), and was disappointed to learn that they both have the bent landing gear. This thread isn’t very active at this time, so before I go further I’d like to know if any additional information about the straight, three-leg landing gear has come about. Perhaps there are some after-market landing gears available?

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Hi everyone ,

Sorry I haven’t been on the forum pages very much these past couple of years .

I don’t know why the images of the builds don’t show through anymore , that’s a bit disappointing .

Anyway I still have all the photo’s I took of my H-34 builds and progress build pic’s on a USB stick . I’m happy to upload any of the photos if anyone wants to view a particular image .

I’m still collecting H-34 kits but just haven’t built any for quite a while or finished some of the already started kits .

I’ll search through my file as to the USCG color scheme , I seem to recall I may have mixed two of the Gunze acrylic paints together . I will try and find out in the next day or so .

Also the V style landing gear that Italeri provide in some of their 1/72 kits are still hard to come by but back in July of this year , I saw a review of Italeri’s 1/72 HSS-1 Seabat kit number 1417 . It has the V style landing gear . I purchased two for my collection

Thanks for keeping this topic active

John .

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Hi, John. Good to hear from you again.

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Hi everyone

I’m back building model kits again after a 8 year break .

I have a nice room set up at the back of the garage , so I wanted to continue on with my fleet of H-34’s / wessex helicopters

Most of the kits I had started building about 8 years ago , so there not far from masking and painting

I’m going with these finished colour schemes and markings

I hope its okay to resurrect an old post .

john

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IT’S ALIIIIVEEE!

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Its more then ok. This is gonna be cool

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Fantastic! Welcome back and I’m so looking forward to a fleet of H-34s!

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Keep on keeping on, John!