HMCS Huron 1944
HMCS Huron was a Tribal-class destroyer that served in the Royal Canadian Navy in the Second World War and the Korean War. She was the first ship to bear this name, entering service in 1943. The Tribals were designed to fight heavily armed destroyers of other navies, such as the Japanese Fubuki class. Canada chose the design based on its armament, with the size and power of the Tribal class allowing them to act more like small cruisers than as fleet destroyers. Huron was among the first batch of Tribal-class destroyers ordered by the Royal Canadian Navy in 1940–1941. Huron was fitted with six quick firing 4.7-inch (119 mm) Mk XII guns placed in three twin turrets, designated 'A', 'B' and 'Y' from bow to stern. The turrets were placed on 40° mountings with open-backed shields.The ship also had one twin turret of QF 4-inch (102 mm) Mk XVI guns in the 'X' position. For secondary anti-aircraft armament, the destroyer was equipped with four single-mounted 2-pounder "pom-pom" guns and six Oerlikon 20 mm cannon. The vessel was also fitted with four 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes for Mk IX torpedoes. Its history write-up credit goes. Its duty/main purpose was to escorted convoys to the Soviet Union alone with several other Canadian ships of the RCN and alone with the rest of the RCN the defence of Great Britain. Info taken from Wikipedia a cannot do without source of information.
The model pictured is in the scale of 1:350 from Trumpeter. I have painted in the arctic winter scheme of that era of WW2. When I first received this kit I though this should be a easy build, far from it. When I open the fair sized box the first thing that came to mind was "where is the rest of it". This build would be a labour of love or of insanity. The model itself being a 1:350 destroyer rather then a battleship would be further evidence of how small the parts are in relation to the parts of other models I have build in scale of 1:144. battleships in 1:350 and 1:35. Not one to backdown on a challenge decided to give it a fair effort to compete and put it in my model collection. Any suggestions,comments questions are gladly accepted.
Great work, nice camo scheme!
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Great work, Rick. I think ships and biplanes are labours of love/insanity. Must be something about the rigging...
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I like to do ships, biplanes haven't done one yet but still time maybe try one soon. It looks nice from a respectable distance. Not too close where you can see the brush
strokes. The baby blue sets it off.
Great looking ship, Rick. I especially like the Arctic Winter scheme - it's very handsome.
Thanks Jeff From a reasonable distance the arctic baby blue certainly does stand out.
A nice representation!
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Nice looking " Greyhound of the Fleet" you have made there Rich it's a pity you never put "Her" on to a sea base , cutting through the water at "Her " top speed !
Thank you Neil, when I post again some of my entries will be in the diorama form of presentation.Taking a break right now that why haven't post as of late but they are on their way.
Nice work Rick.. how did you determine the camo? Was it from a WW2 source on regulation colour scheme..
Hi Al
Very sorry it has taken so long to reply. Haven't been on the site for a few months. Working on other projects. The camo scheme came from the Trumpeter box and for an addition source for the arctic scheme I use pictures of HMCS Sackville and personal viewing in Halifax (arctic paint scheme 1944). This vessel was also used as a convoy escort ship as was the Huron to and from the Soviet Union.