Aaronw Posted April 14, 2009 Share Posted April 14, 2009 (edited) I just spent the last hour searching through old posts for info on building a correct CH-113 (yes, I too have the Hobbycraft "CH-113"). I also ran across a few other posts on the Vertol 107. I thought since I found the info I might as well make a post combining them to make it easier for myself and others to find it all again. Please feel free to add other versions and the needed modifications, or correct what I post (I know very little, I am simply repeating the info in the posts) and I'll edit to keep the info in the first post. Canada CH-113 Voyager: Narrow airfoil shaped rear pylon (KV-107), more glazing on the nose (same as CH-46A?), small fuel sponsons. CH-113 Labrador (early): Narrow airfoil shaped rear pylon (KV-107), small fuel sponsons. Paint on these versions includes the red white and blue, as well as early yellow & red aircraft. CH-113 Labrador (Late): Narrow airfoil shaped rear pylon (KV-107) with APU (Belcher bits offers resin conversion in 1/48. Combine KV-107 + CH-46D pylons in 1/72?). Large round sponsons (some KV-107 kits, Japanese KV-107 sponsons possibly scale 8-10" longer than the Canadian tanks). Radome on the nose. Available kits Hobbycraft CH-113 / CH-46 is available in 1/72. This kit is incorrect for any Canadian CH-113 (but can be combined with Fujimi KV-107 to make a non-APU CH-113 & HKP-4C). Fujimi KV-107 kits are recommended as a starting point in 1/72, make sure it includes the large round sponsons. Academy 1/48 KV-107 kit includes the parts to make an early CH-113, some kits include decals for a yellow & red Labrador. Belcher bits offers a resin conversion to make a late CH-113 Labrador from the Academy kit. Decals Belcher Bits, Can Mil Air, & Leading Edge offer a variety of CH-113 decals. Canada colors Voyager: ??? Red, white & blue SAR scheme: insignia red, insignia white, insignia blue? Early yellow SAR scheme: ??? yellow (lighter more yellow than later scheme), Insignia red? Late SAR scheme: Insignia Yellow, Insignia red Sweden HKP-4A, 4B: Use KV-107 with large round sponsons HKP-4C: KV-107 with APU and wide pylon (from CH-46D), large round sponsons (from some KV-107 kits) Kits Fujimi offers KV-107 and CH-46D in 1/72. Airfix 1/72 KV-107 / CH-46 kit includes the parts and decals to make an HKP-4A or 4B. Hobbycraft CH-113 / CH-46 in 1/72. This kit includes the neccessary parts to make an HKP-4C (CH-46D + large round sponsons). Academy offers KV-107 and CH-46D in 1/48. Decals ??? Colors ??? USA CH-46A. More glazing than later models, small fuel sponsons, no APU, narrow pylon like KV-107. Kits Academy offers a 1/48 CH-46A. Fujimi offers several 1/72 CH-46 kits. Need to kit bash with ??? or scratchbuild (Is Fujimi HH-46A kit correct for CH-46A?) Hobbycraft offers a 1/72 CH-113 / CH-46, it will need the same modifications as the Fujimi kit. Decals ??? Colors ??? Edited April 16, 2009 by Aaronw Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Phrogger Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 (edited) Some minor corrections Canada CH-113A Voyageur: Narrow airfoil shaped rear pylon (if by that, you mean asymmetric, with the trailing edge offset slightly to the starboard, yes) and equipped with APU (like CH-46A). More glazing on the nose, unique only to the Voyageur. Forward port side emergency exit is shorter, lower edge is up off the floor, and corners rounded (like late CH-46D/F models). Small fuel stub wings with 380 US gallon system capacity (also like CH-46A and NYA BV-107-II) without fuel jettison tubes. Entry door's lower half door with two full width steps (like H-46). CH-113 Labrador (early): Asymmetric rear pylon without APU (like BV-107 II Civil & KV-107). Lab No's 302(402) and 304(404) had aft pylon changes at certain points in the 1960's and had replacement tails like a Voyageur, but no APU installed in the compartment and the provisional hole for the APU exhaust was blanked off. Fuel sponsons instead of stub wings (900 US gallon system capacity, ~10" shorter than the sponsons of HKP4's and long range KV-107's). Lower half of entry door has four rung type steps, two forward and two aft of a fairly flat platform in the center of the door's interior. Forward port side emergency exit is taller, with lower edge at floor level, and corners are more squared like early CH-46A. CH-113 Labrador (Late ie; SARCUP & Speedline modified): All original Labs got CH-46A/CH-113A style APU tails with APU's. Voyageur conversions got the larger Kawasaki sponsons (1000 US gallon system capacity) in 1979-1980 during Speedline mod as the CDN tanks had been discontinued. These tanks have round support braces (versus the flatter "aero" design of the original Labs) with larger fairings at the fuselage attachment. Original Labs did NOT get the bigger tanks. Radome on the nose. Original Voyageurs maintained their extra glazing in the nose. External rescue hoist on swinging boom (like HH-46 & some CH-46E). Here is an excellent CH-113/113A series resource! It goes into even more details and would be helpful for making period correct versions. http://cdnsarlab.blogspot.com/ Sweden HKP-4A, 4B: Use KV-107 with large round sponsons - One exception, HKP-4B no. 64 is converted from Boeing-Vertol's #2 prototype (C/N 10) and has square windows like a civil version, with 8 on the port side and 6 on the starboard (forwardmost and aft most windows blanked out from standard civil config) and has THE CH-46D protoype aft pylon, not the asymmetric one of other HKP-4A & B models. HKP-4C: KV-107 with APU and wide pylon (like CH-46D), large round sponsons (from some KV-107 kits) USA CH-46A. More glazing than later models, small fuel sponsons, no APU, narrow pylon like KV-107, but with APU. Many A's converted to D-style aft pylons after they left the factory starting ~1968. A's have larger forward port emergency exit like Lab's (see above), these doors have a handle to open them, like the Crew Door & cockpit emergency exits (D & F models have the smaller forward port side hatch that is held in place with a rubber seal and a nylon strap & rip cord to pull the seal and open the exit - like the three emergency exit windows have). Edited July 21, 2012 by Phrogger Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Litvyak Posted July 17, 2012 Share Posted July 17, 2012 Canada colors Voyager: ??? Red, white & blue SAR scheme: insignia red, insignia white, insignia blue? Early yellow SAR scheme: ??? yellow (lighter more yellow than later scheme), Insignia red? Late SAR scheme: Insignia Yellow, Insignia red Voyageur - Cdn Army: overall green (503-101; FS24084 is kinda close) (Canadian Army) Voyageur - CAF: overall green (503-120; FS14064 is close) (CAF) Voyageur - CAF camo: green (503-301; FS34064 is close) and grey (501-302; bit lighter than FS36118) with underside grey (101-327; FS36152 is close) Labrador - RCAF, early CAF: mostly blue (502-103) with white (513-101) roof, dayglo orange pylons; dayglo later replaced with red (509-102; FS31136 is close) Labrador/Voyageur - CAF symmetrical era: overall yellow (505-101 - lighter than FS13538) with red (509-101; FS31136 is close) Labrador - CAF FIP era: overall yellow (FS13538) with red (FS11105) (note: FS numbers are the spec colours) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FM-Whip Posted July 17, 2012 Share Posted July 17, 2012 Another Vertol 107 variant was the YHC-1A, three of which were manufactured for the US Army, and which (for test purposes) were flying 3 years prior to the first USMC CH-46As. The original Chinook designation was YHC-1B. John Hairell (tpn18@yahoo.com) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Phrogger Posted July 17, 2012 Share Posted July 17, 2012 (edited) You want 'em all? Here you go, with the years made, model # and (quantity) Vertol 1958 Vertol 107/YHC-1 (one) 1959-1960 Vertol YHC-1A (three) Boeing-Vertol 1960 Boeing-Vertol 107-II-1 Factory prototype (1) 1961-1964 Boeing-Vertol 107-II-2 (16, includes second prototype "Tab 2" - later converted to a HKP4B, and the following supplied to Kawasaki: one kitted at sub-assembly level, five regular kits and one as parts.) 1962 BV-107-?/XH-49A/CH-46B (none built, contract cancelled before first one was built, Tab 2 was painted up in USAF scheme for a short time) 1962-1966 BV-107-M/CH-46A (194) 1962-1966 BV-107-M/UH-46A (14) 1963-1964 BV-107-II-9/CH-113 Labrador Canadian Air Force (6) 1964 BV-107-II-14/HKP4A Swedish Air Force (10) 1964-1965 BV-107-II-28/CH-113A Voyageur (12) 1966 BV-107-II-15/HKP4B Swedish Navy (3, plus Tab 2's conversion in 1970) 1966-1968 BV-107-M/CH-46D (233 built, 33 converted from A's) 1966-1968 BV-107-M/UH-46D (10) 1968-1971 BV-107-M/CH-46F (174) 1970-19?? HH-46A & D (61 converted from CH/UH-46A/D) 1978-1986 CH-46E (275 converted from A, D & F models) 2006 HH-46E (3 converted from CH-46E) Kawasaki Heavy Industries 1962-1963 KV-107II-2 basic civil passenger & utility version (12 built, including 7 built from kits/parts sent from Boeing, 3 of these sold to Royal Thai Army) 1962 KV-107II-3 JMSDF Minesweeper (2) 1963 KV-107II-7 Royal Thai Army, Royal Flight VIP (1) 1964 KV-107IIA-2 Improved Passenger/utility (3) 1966 KV-107II-4 JGSDF transport version (41) 1967 KV-107II-5 JASDF SAR (15) 1971 KV-107IIA-3 JMSDF Improved Minesweeper (7) 1972 KV-107II-16/HKP4C Swedish Navy ASW/SAR multi-role (8) 1972 KV-107II-4A JGSDF VIP transport (civil windows) (1) 1972 KV-107IIA-5 JASDF Improved SAR (37) 1973 KV-107IIA-17 Long-range transport & VIP version of KV-107IIA for Tokyo Police (1) 1973 KV-107IIA-4 JGSDF Improved transport (18) 1979 KV-107IIA-SM-1 Saudi Arabian Ministry of Interior fire fighter (7) 1979 KV-107IIA-SM-2 Saudi Arabian Ministry of Interior SAR (4) 1979 KV-107IIA-SM-3 Saudi Arabian Ministry of Interior multi-purpose (2) 1979 KV-107IIA-SM-4 Saudi Arabian Ministry of Interior air ambulance (3) You could almost make a career out of building one of every variant. :D Edited July 21, 2012 by Phrogger Quote Link to post Share on other sites
troschi Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 (edited) [...] Sweden HKP-4A, 4B: Use KV-107 with large round sponsons HKP-4C: KV-107 with APU and wide pylon (from CH-46D), large round sponsons (from some KV-107 kits) Kits Fujimi offers KV-107 and CH-46D in 1/72. Airfix 1/72 KV-107 / CH-46 kit includes the parts and decals to make an HKP-4A or 4B. Hobbycraft CH-113 / CH-46 in 1/72. This kit includes the neccessary parts to make an HKP-4C (CH-46D + large round sponsons). Academy offers KV-107 and CH-46D in 1/48. Decals ??? Colors ??? [...] Decals for Swedish HKP-4: Flying Colors Aerodecals 72-101 Contains decals for an earlier air force a/c in single tone olive drab and a navy a/c in splinter-camo - available in 1:72 only http://www.scalemates.com/products/product.php?id=127827 Edited July 24, 2012 by troschi Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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