Zenrat's Flying Circus

[zenrat]

I've always had an idea of stretching a Boomerang..slimming it out so to speck.
Last time I looked 48th scale Boomerangs were few and far between.
Hell I'm having enough fun trying to find a 1/16th scale Ford big block V8   

A stretched Boomerang is a Wirraway isn't it?

AMT did a 1/16 '55 (or '57) Thunderbird if that helps.

[Wardukw]

I've always had an idea of stretching a Boomerang..slimming it out so to speck.
Last time I looked 48th scale Boomerangs were few and far between.
Hell I'm having enough fun trying to find a 1/16th scale Ford big block V8   

A stretched Boomerang is a Wirraway isn't it?

AMT did a 1/16 '55 (or '57) Thunderbird if that helps.

I have no idea Fred mate if it's a Wirraway ..fact I've no idea what a Wirraway looks like 😳 😅

Is that a complete car or just the engine ??
If it's a 55 or 57 either engine might be to small..if I remember right it's only like a 312 cid engine and the Cobra needs a 427 or bigger 🤔

[zenrat]

Complete car.  I trashed one as a kid.  Moulded in maroon and not too much detail IIRC.  Almost like they just scaled up a 1/25 kit.

There was a 55 and a 57.  57 was repopped most recently.  While it might not be a 427 it would at least be a start on which to work your magic.

[Old Wombat]

I have no idea Fred mate if it's a Wirraway ..fact I've no idea what a Wirraway looks like 😳 😅

CAC Wirraway;



The CAC Wirraway was a CAC-licenced development of the North American NA-16 (think T-6 Texan)



Some elements of the Wirraway were used in designing the Boomerang, they were supposed to be parts-interchangeable but the design process killed that off, however the lineage is definitely visible.

[zenrat]

Once the glue bombed nephew sourced Boomerang has given its legs up to the victim of the Great Shelf Drop of '24 there will be a pile of parts left in a ziplock bag which will be too tempting to ignore.  It'll be missing undercarriage and canopy and the prop is broken but I have an idea in my head...

[Rheged]

A stretched Boomerang is a Wirraway isn't it?

I think that, technically, a Boomerang was a shrunken Wirraway,  if I'm remembering the time-line correctly.   Of course I could be (and often am) totally mistaken.

[Wardukw]

My intention was a modified Boomerang but now what I'd be doing is turning one thing back into what it either originally was or turning something into what it ended up being .  
Yeah Homie don't play dat 😤..😆

But what Fred said in his last post has me very interested 🤔 

[zenrat]

But what Fred said in his last post has me very interested 🤔 

Basically a Boomerang with fixed, spatted undercarriage and an open cockpit with the rear fuselage cut down.  Nothing too difficult.  Open cockpit will mean building a more detailed interior from my finest scratch though.

[NARSES2]

But what Fred said in his last post has me very interested 🤔 

Basically a Boomerang with fixed, spatted undercarriage and an open cockpit with the rear fuselage cut down.  Nothing too difficult.  Open cockpit will mean building a more detailed interior from my finest scratch though.

Go the whole hog and make it a bi-plane 

[Old Wombat]

But what Fred said in his last post has me very interested 🤔 

Basically a Boomerang with fixed, spatted undercarriage and an open cockpit with the rear fuselage cut down.  Nothing too difficult.  Open cockpit will mean building a more detailed interior from my finest scratch though.

Go the whole hog and make it a bi-plane 

Careful! That way lies the Grumman F3F!

[NARSES2]

Oh yea, but at least the Grumman has retractable undercarriage.

[PR19_Kit]

Oh yea, but at least the Grumman has retractable undercarriage.

Even if they left half of it outside! 

[zenrat]

I think i've nailed the PSR on the Battle fuselage.  Next job is scribe in some panel lines around the engine and then glue the wings on.

Egg J15 is in primer.  It looks fantastic.  Meng really nailed the super-deformed cartoon look.  A boring grey over grey scheme won't do it justice.  I'm wondering if I can pull off hand brushed tiger stripes.  I've done it before a couple of times.  Firstly on a 1/144 Space Shuttle and then years later on a 1:1 Motorcycle petrol tank.
Something like this...

[NARSES2]

Probably find there's a transfer sheet that can be addapted ? Either F.16 or F.18, plus probably some central/eastern European types.

[zenrat]

That's an RAAF bird.  Someone does a set of stickers in the one true scale which I am on the lookout for to put on a Hasegawa F/A 18.  I think the egg plane is so different in size (shorter and fatter) that it'd be a waste trying to get some to fit it.