Revell Graf Zeppelin German Aircraft Carrier, 1/720, 05164
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
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From 2019 and a fine kit of 'Flugzeugtrager A' or 'Aircraft Carrier A'. Very nicely molded and highly detailed model from newer Revell of Germany molds. Features 161 pieces, full hull with propellers & rudder detail, open rear elevator well with lowered elevator, ships boats, separately molded main and secondary AA armament, searchlights, range finders, directors, detailed island structure, an airwing of Bf-109Ts with folded or straight wings, Ju-87 Stuka Dive Bombers with folded or straight wings and more. Includes a full color paint guide and extensive decals for the ship, flight deck and aircraft. Never started and inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions. This German WWII aircraft carrier has a fascinating history. She was laid down in 1936, and launched in 1938. Raeder pressed for proper fitting out and completion, but ran into continuous and powerful resistance from Goring, who did not like the idea of the Navy having a mobile air-arm. Goring's interference proved conclusive and the ship, which was 95% complete, never entered service. The air wing was to be navalized Bf-109 Fighters and Ju-87 Dive Bombers. Work stopped completely in 1943 as Hitler became frustrated with the Navy. On April 25, 1945, the Germans scuttled the nearly complete carrier at Stettin just before the Russians arrived. What happened next has been unclear for years. It was generally assumed that the ship struck a mine and sank after the Soviets raised her. With the opening of Russian records, this story can be completed. In 1946 the Soviets raised the ship and towed it to Leningrad. There, they hoped to rebuild it and use it for her intended purpose. This proved to be impossible at the time, so in 1947 it was towed to sea and used as an target. In 2006, the wreck was actually located.
Revell TWO Eurocopter SA-365 Dauphin 2 - HH-65A US Coast Guard US Naval Test Pilot School Naval Air Text Center Patexent River 1991 / French Army Bretigny 1997, 1/72, 04467
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
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SALE!! Includes two kits in the one box shown. Both models are never started and inventoried 100% complete with all parts, decals and instructions present. This 2002 issue is from quality Matchbox molds and features complete cockpit and interior cabin, optional opened or closed cabin doors, working main & tail rotors, separately molded windshield wipers and more. Includes decals and paint guide for French and US Coast Guard helicopters.
Great Wall Focke-Wulf Fw-189 A2 - (GWH Fw189A2), 1/48, L4803
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
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Superbly detailed model includes PE parts, all recessed surface detail, superb cockpit and crew stations, optional opened or closed canopy panels, two highly detailed engine down to the ignition wires, weighted tires, two sets of maintenance ladders, separately molded ailerons, trailing edge flaps, rudder & elevator, detailed gear wells and more. Never started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions.
Comet North American NA-35 (Vega 35) - 17 1/8 inch Wingspan For Free Flight, 3301
Wood Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed Exc+
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Still factory sealed. Dated 1963 on the plans but this issue is from the early to mid 1970s. Stick and tissue kit can be powered by rubber or electric, or built for static display. Kit features traditional construction techniques with quality, die-cut balsa sheet parts, stripwood, fully formed wheels, spars and wood stock as required, fully formed wire landing gear, rubber motor, plastic prop, wood thrust button, clear material for windscreens, insignia, covering tissue and detailed, full-size plans and building instructions. Comet was a famous manufacturer of stick and tissue flying and static models. In the 1930s Great Depression, they lead the low-priced kit revolution with the "Dime Scale" kits and famous advertisements in Model Airplane News magazine and others. Comet reached it's peak in the 1930s when they acquired the services of Carl Goldberg. Goldberg was a highly accomplished modeler with articles in Model Airplane News and famous designs that won him several National level competitions in the 1930s and beyond. (Carl Goldberg went on to found his own company and produced well designed and popular free-flight and RC aircraft). Comet survived the post World War economic slump and continued kit production until they were bought out by long-time competitor Guillow's in 1998.
Comet Cessna C-37 Airmaster - 20 Inch Wingspan Balsawood Flying Model Airplane, 3302
Wood Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed Good
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Still factory sealed but the seal has several splits. This is a 1970s issue that features traditional wood/tissue construction with quality balsa printwood, stripwood, fully formed wheels, spars and wood stock as required, plastic prop, covering tissue and detailed, full-size plans and building instructions. (Please note, the kit is factory sealed so the exact contents are not know for sure; Comet was renown for slightly varying the content of stick-and-tissue kits across the years.) Comet was a famous manufacturer of stick and tissue flying and static models. In the 1930s Great Depression, they lead the low-priced kit revolution with the "Dime Scale" kits and famous advertisements in Model Airplane News magazine and others. Comet reached it's peak in the 1930s when they acquired the services of Carl Goldberg. Goldberg was a highly accomplished modeler with articles in Model Airplane News and famous designs that won him several National level competitions in the 1930s and beyond. (Carl Goldberg went on to found his own company and produced well designed and popular free-flight and RC aircraft). Comet survived the post World War economic slump and continued kit production until they were bought out by long-time competitor Guillow's in 1998.
Italeri TWO DUKW / TWO (Really Four) ISU-152 / TWO Kubelwagen / ICM ATZ-5320 Fuel Bowser, 1/72, 7022
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG to Good
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SALE!! Includes all 7 (actually 9) kits in the boxes shown. The Italeri ISU-152 kit includes one 'quick-build' and one normal kit. Since there are two sets in one box, there are 4 tank kits in this one box. NOTE: Sold AS-IS and not inventoried. This collector was very meticulous. Of the many thousands of his kits that I did inventory,, 95+% are complete. But on these kits he cut the sprue (trees) with the part numbers still attached to each number, so the parts are loose. Because of that, I have not inventoried these kits. NOTE: he built minor sub assemblies (gun barrels, chassis, etc.) to 'professional' quality. Again, these kits are sold not inventoried and AS IS hence the very low price.
KP Ilyushin Il-10 Avia B-33 / Aoshima Curtiss P-36A / LS Ki-51 Babs / Academy FW-190 A6/8, 1/72
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed Exc To VG+
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SALE!! Includes all four kits. Babs, P-36 and Il-10 are still factory sealed. The Focke-Wulf is never started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions.
Comet Cessna 140 Struct-O-Speed - 9.5 Inch Wingspan Flying Balsa Model, 2104-29
Wood Model Kit, Box Condition: Good
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Comet was a famous manufacturer of stick and tissue flying and static models. They lead the low-priced kit revolution in the 1930s with their famous adds in Model Airplane News. Comet reached it's peak when they acquired the services of Carl Goldberg, who had made a name for himself with famous designs that won the Nationals during the 30s and articles in Model Airplane News. (Carl Goldberg went on to found his own company and produced well designed and popular free-flight and RC aircraft). Sales sagged after WWII as they did for all balsa kit manufacturers but Comet survived till bought out by long-time competitor Guillow's in 1998. When sales sagged again in the 1960s, Comet's response was the easier to build Struct-O-Speed series with a significant amount of prefabrication that dramatically reduced assembly time. Light and well designed, these kits flew well. This one features 3D fuselage with sheeted sides, one piece horizontal and vertical stabilizers, one piece wing, detailed full size plans with building instructions, fully formed wooden wheels and a balsa propeller. The model has not been started. Inventoried 100% complete with all parts and instructions.
Monogram White Lightning Pro Stree Firebird, 1/24, 2748
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed Exc++
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Rare and still factory sealed. 1987 issue which features complete 454 CID engine, removable body, detailed, full race chassis, suspension and more.
Great Wall Victor B.2 RAF Strategic Bomber - RAF 100Sq 1963 / 138 Sq 1964 / 139 Sq 1962 / Aircraft XH675 - (GWH), 1/144, L1004
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
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Excellent kit from all new molds featuring numerous plastic pieces, all fine recessed panel lines, excellent cockpit, opened or closed rear air brake with well detail, detailed gear bays, realistic intake and exhaust & more. Includes a full-size, full-color three view paint guide and decals for four different aircraft and additional numbers to model many other aircraft. Never started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions.
Great Wall Vulcan B.2 RAF Strategic Bomber, 1/144, L1001
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG
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Excellent kit from all new molds featuring numerous plastic pieces, all fine recessed panel lines, cockpit & more. Never started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions.
MPC 1968 Coronet R/T Dodge Scat Packer With Trailer - Build It As A Super Stock Drag Drag Car / Injected Drag Car / Custom Car / Stock With Or Without Trailer, 1/25, 1768-200
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
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Very rare first and only issue and even rarer in this condition. Includes 'Haul-Away' trailer with working tailgate. The car itself is a very well detailed and can be built one of any of the ways listed. Features stock 440 Magnum engine or modified version with stacks, detailed engine compartment, opening hood, full interior detail with optional custom interior parts, molded detailed underside, racing slicks or stock tires, trailer hitch, trailer side mirrors for the car, jack stands and floor jack and more. Never started and inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions. Molded in white, chrome plate, clear, red-tinted clear and with rubber tires, metal axles and metal body screws. Never started and inventoried complete with all parts and includes 'near mint' condition decals and 'excellent+' instructions. There is one small burn mark on one of the roll cage supports.
Revell Mickey Thompsons Challenger I - Worlds Fastest Car 406.6 MPH, 1/25, H1281-200
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed NM
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Still factory sealed and this is the 1990s reissue of the original 1962 kit. When released in 1962, this car was one of the revolutionary Revell kits that broke new ground in 1/25 level of detail. In Tom Graham's interviews with Jim Keeler, the kit designer, the molds cost $80,000 in 1961 - twice that of a normal car kit. To design the kit, Thompson's mechanics gave the Revell team full run of the vehicle and even disassembled it for them. The model features removable boy panels, four super detailed Pontiac V-8 engines with 18 parts each, complete chassis, suspension and drive train detail, water tanks, fuel tanks, parachute holder, cockpit and much more. The level of detail is astounding for that time.
Trumpeter A-3D-2 Skywarrior Strategic Bomber - (A3D / A-3D / A3D2), 1/48, 02868
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc++
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Very highly detailed and finely molded model that features over 370 pieces, three frets of PE details and three sheets of decals. Never started and the parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions.
AMT Surf Woody Or Surf Hearse - Stock / Street Rod / Hearse, 1/25, 2166-200
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG+
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Rare original issue from the late 1960s and not a common reissue. This is a 'special' kit because one of the versions is a rather grisly Maltese-Cross bedecked Hearse with a coffin-lid shaped surfboard on the top. Decals even include 'Kill Markings' of other automobiles, insects and humans with over-sized feet as well as a large surfboard decal representing the inside of a padded casket. As if that was not enough, a box side illustration shows the German-Themed Meat Mobile parked at a graveyard around midnight as a supernatural lighting effect seems to join the aft compartment of the wagon to the gravestones. In the distance is the wreckage of a once advanced civilization. There is little doubt that this kit would be an ideal way for Junior to come to grips with his own mortality and begin to fathom his (hopefully) distant yet important trip to the great beyond. The model features a detailed engine with dual blowers, rolling tube chassis build just like an actual race car, two different interiors, 'normal' body and hearse box, optional fenders for all four wheels, a large wood grain decal and an ever larger decal sheet. Never started and inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions. Molded in white, clear, chrome plate and with rubber tires. NOTE: this model has minor and very neat 'profession' quality subassembly as noted: engine block halves, heads and oil pan; basic frame (4 pieces total) and rear differential halves. There is no other assembly. inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions. There is one small tire burn on a seat base.
AMT 196 Pontiac GTO 3 in 1 Kit - Convertible / Hardtop / Custom Fastback, 1/25, 2600-170
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Fair
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Rare and nicely molded kit. Can be built any one of three ways - stock convertible or hardtop or a custom fastback. Includes many optional custom parts so you can make a totally unique automobile. Features detailed V-8 engine with stock 4bbl carb or three deuces, very good engine compartment, opening hood, full interior, stock hardtop or convertible boot, custom top with custom front and rear end treatments much more. Molded in white, clear, red tinted clear and chrome and with rubber narrow whitewall tires for stock and drag slicks for race. Never started and inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions. The decals are intact and flat but have typical age microcracking.
MPC Turbo Shark with Transport Trailer - Famous Custom Car from a 1964 Corvette Chassis, 1/25, 507-200
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good-
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Rare first and only issue. The Turbo Shark was a very famous and popular custom car built by Carl Casper. The last time I checked it still existed and was at the Kruse Automotive & Carriage Museum in Auburn, Indiana. Well detailed kit features advanced turbo-charged engine, opening hood, highly detailed suspension with real metal coil springs, full driveline, disc brakes and steering gear, side pipes, turning wheels, red tinted rear glass and a 25 piece working transport trailer with stow-away ramps. The kit is molded in white, red, clear, red-tinted clear, chrome plate and with rubber tires. The kit has never been started. All the red parts are still in the factory sealed bag; all other parts have been inventoried complete. Includes instructions in excellent condition. MPC did not release this kit with decals. The box has bug edge wear as shown.
Revell THREE Macchi MC-200 Saetta - (MC.200), 1/72, H657
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good++
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SALE!! Includes three kits in one box. They have never been started. All three aircraft are inventoried with all parts present but NOTE: missing display stands. Includes two sets of decals and one set of instructions. 1966 issue from Revell of Great Britain in a two-piece box
Pyro 1911 Mercer Toy Tonneau Vintage Brass Car Issue, 1/32, C460-125
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good
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1967 Pyro issue from original molds. In the early to mid 1960s the Pyro company chose many of their kit subjects based more on historical significance than popularity. Luckily for us, Pyro not only made these kits but did an excellent job for the time. The Pyro car models are based on the actual cars that Pyro engineers and designers had access to. In some cases, the specific car and owner is on the box. The model includes rubber tires, green & clear parts and parts molded in a brass color. Features detailed chassis, complete motor and interior and a removable hood. Never started and inventoried complete with all parts and includes instructions.
MPC 1971 Chevrolet Vega Mild & Wild - Stock / Put-On / Rally, 1/25, 1-7127-225
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
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Rare one and only issue and even rarer in this condition. This model can be built one of three ways. Rally and wild versions include many optional parts. Features detailed complete engine, engine compartment, opening hood, full interior, rotating wheels, exhaust and underside detail. Molded in yellow, clear, red tinted clear, and chrome. With rubber tires. The kit has never been started. Inside, it is still packed as it came from the factory. The yellow plastic parts are still in the factory sealed bag. The chrome, clear and tires were never factory sealed and have been inventoried complete. Includes decals and instructions with box in 'excellent' condition.