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Model Forum / General / Models / July 2010CAC Wirraway
Was the CAC Wirraway ever made in 1/72 scale? Also was the Wirraway with it's (twin cowl mounted machine guns) used in the TV series Baa Baa Black Sheep modified as a Zero? Thanks, Robert I think High Planes made a Wirraway. Those were modified T-6s / SNJs / Harvards in ''Baa Baa Black Sheep", leftovers from "Tora, Tora, Tora". > Was the CAC Wirraway ever made in 1/72 scale? > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Robert In article <09bec4ff-5b11-4278-bac0-7e028b7ebaa3@f6g2000yqa.googlegroups.com>, > I think High Planes made a Wirraway. Those were modified T-6s / > SNJs / Harvards in ''Baa Baa Black Sheep", leftovers from "Tora, Tora, [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > > > Robert Both High Planes and Special Hobby have done the Wirraway in 1/72. Both are reasonable kits, bearing in mind that they are limited run kits from an era when huge sprue attachments and heavy flash were seen as the price for having a kit of a particular type in the first place. They are both buildable by a moderately skilled but very patient modeller. The Wirraway was derived from the T-6/SNJ, hence the visual similarity. The Wirraway was the first modern aircraft to be built in Australia, which at that time did not have a history of precision engineering - there was no indigenous car industry - and was highly successful as a trainer and had some success in combat... the one in which Archer famously shot down a Zero is now in the Australian War Memorial. Mark  Signatureremove "nospam" in replies! Perth Western Australia > Was the CAC Wirraway ever made in 1/72 scale? > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Robert The Wirraway was a license-built copy of the NA-16-2K/BC-1, an ancestor to the T-6/SNJ series. The most visible difference between this aircraft and the later developments was its fabric-covered rear fuselage. This feature was retained on the Wirraway throughout its production run. |
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