CAC Wirraway

I think High Planes made a Wirraway. Those were modified T-6s / SNJs / Harvards in ''Baa Baa Black Sheep", leftovers from "Tora, Tora, Tora".

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

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.