Tag: Tasman Models

• 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

• CAC Boomerang – Part Two – Wrong

  

  Cicero famously said that any man may be wrong but only a fool persists in error. I wish to state now that I was wrong in my judgement of the Tasman Models Boomerang kit and wish to change my mind. I thought it was going to prove an unbuildable thing – a mere box of…

  Dick Stein

  November 4, 2021

  1:72 scale, Australian aircraft, design, Model Airplane, Scale Models, subassembly

  CAC Boomerang, dry fitting, Tasman Models

• CAC Boomerang – Part One – The Pale Pachyderm

  

  I’m glad that I am adventurous – for a person who doesn’t leave the house much. And I’m glad that I have friends who are also adventurous – it leads me to the sort of things I normally would not do. The Tasman Models 1:72 kit of the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation’s native fighter plane of…

  Dick Stein

  November 3, 2021

  1:72 scale, Australian aircraft, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, Resin, Scale Models, Utility Models

  Australia, CAC Boomerang, RAAF, Resin, Tasman Models