Tag: boomerang

• Airfix Boomerang – Part Four – Classy Vintage

  

  Well, if the Airfix 2023 announcements are anything to go by, it is going to be a good year for Vintage Classics. And if this kit is a sample of what will come along I shall buy the entire range. The result at the end of the build has been all I could ask for…

  Dick Stein

  October 26, 2023

  1:72 scale, Australian aircraft, Colour Schemes, Decals, frugality, Hobby Shops, Model Airplane, Modelling Supplies, prototypes, Scale Models

  Airfix, boomerang, Vintage Classics

• Airfix Boomerang – Part Two – Furrows And Fillers

  

  How appropriate – I am writing this post on Australia Day 2023 – about a distinctively Australian airplane. And I’m eating a sausage roll and drinking a XXXX. I may go out and wrestle a crocodile later… The Boomerang has distinctively British grooves in it – down the wing roots and in the tail assembly.…

  Dick Stein

  October 23, 2023

  1:72 scale, Australian aircraft, Masking, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, Scale Models, subassembly, Workshop

  Airfix, Australia, boomerang, fillers

• CAC Boomerang – Part Three – Let’s Take Stock

  

  The start of this build was unpromising. The cardboard box from Tasman Models had all the appeal of a damp surgical appliance and the instruction sheets looked like a practical joke. A Kiwi practical joke at that. It was the sort of kit that you sold on eBay if you were lucky, or bought on…

  Dick Stein

  November 5, 2021

  1:72 scale, Australian aircraft, design, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, Scale Models, subassembly, Uncategorized, Utility Models

  boomerang, scratchbuilding, Tasman Models