Tag: Australian model

• CAC Wirraway – Part One – The Challenge

  

  Apparently that is what the word translates to from one of the aboriginal languages. In modern day terms it was one of the licence-built derivatives from a North American design – the root of which gave us the Yale, Harvard, Texan, and NA 16. And probably a Soviet copy somewhere, if they ran true to…

  Dick Stein

  March 9, 2026

  1:72 scale, Australian aircraft, Collecting, internet, Model Airplane, Model building club, Modelling Supplies, Scale Models, Utility Models

  Australian model, CAC

• Convair Atlas D – Part One – Old Home To New Home

  

  I used to live where these things were deployed. I now live where the scale model is made. This kit from Horizon Models was advertised for some time in the Australian scale model magazine – but I did not see it at the time. Then it got to Phil Flory and I sat up and…

  Dick Stein

  March 2, 2023

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, design, Scale Models

  Australian model, Missile, USAF