Encore Polikarpov I-15 / Polikarpov I-3 / Yak-6 / Gladiator Mk.I/II / Polikarpov R-5, 1/72
Vacuform Model Kit, Box Condition: VG to Sealed
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SALE! Includes all 5 kits. The Yak-6 and I-15 are still factory sealed. The R-5, I-3 and Gladiator have not been started and all parts are still in the factory bags - with decals and instructions.
Monogram Hu-16B Albatross - Blue Box Issue - (SA-16B), 1/72, 6837
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good-
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The 4th issue of the classic 'Four Star' Kit and has the Mattel logos. Features retracting landing gear, rotating wheels & propellers, optional position cabin door and more. Molded in silver and clear. The kit has never been started. It has been inventoried and all aircraft parts are present but NOTE: missing all figures and life raft. Otherwise complete with all other parts and includes decals and instructions. The Albatross was the primary sea rescue aircraft of the Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Service, a branch of MAC - Military Airlift Command. Operational service began in 1947 and Hu-16s saw wartime action in Vietnam.
Con-Cor 40 Ton USRA Box Car ATSF 'Sante Fe' With Trucks and Couplers - HO Craftsman Kit, 1/87, HO-109
Wood and Metal Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc+
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From the late 1950s or very early 1960s. Superb kit that features fully factory painted and lettered car sides in 'Sante Fe,' factory-assembled real sprung metal trucks, numerous metal details parts, fully assembled couplers and draft gear, numerous wooden parts, metal stock as required and comprehensive plans and instructions. The kit has never been started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes instructions.
Quality Craft Models 41 Foot Changeable Tank Car Caustic Soda Car - HO Craftsman Kit, 1/87, 357
Metal Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
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Excellent kit that builds a detailed duplicate of the prototype. Features all metal parts - a round metal tank and dozens of precision, metal castings as well as metal stock as required. With very complete decals for multiple cars. The kit has never been started. The small fittings are still in the factory sealed bag. The parts that were not factory sealed have been inventoried complete including decals and instructions. Long after manufacturers turned to plastic ready-to-run rolling stock, Quality Craft continued to produce high quality models you could build. Headquartered in Northumberland, PA, they gave the craftsman an opportunity to build a state-of-art kit and show their skill.
Airfix The Revenge With Sails - Type One Logo - Bagged, 1411
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed VG+
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Still factory sealed. Very rare first issue from the 1950s. The paper header is in 'very good' condition and is still factory stapled to the original clear parts bag. This small-scale model is well molded and features a full-hull, billowing sails, clear printed ratlines, sail decals and a display stand. The ship measures just about 4.5 inches in length when built.
Revell PB4Y-1 US Navy Patrol Bomber - (B-24) - (PB4Y1), 1/72, H205
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed VG++
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Still factory sealed. 1997 reissue of the famous kit. Nice model of the Navy B-24. Has many action features: landing gear retracts and extends, control surfaces move, guns elevate and turrets rotate, wheels and props spin, flaps extend/retract, 4 crew and has optional position side gunner's position (open or closed).
Comet Mitsubishi Zero A6M5 - Super Stars Series 21 Inch Wingspan Flying Model Airplane, 1622
Wood Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed VG
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Still factory sealed but the seal has splits and has drawn the box top concave as shown. 1970s large scale issue for rubber or gas free flight, or easily converted to RC using today's tiny and light servos and receivers. Box art is by Locher, who did a great deal of the Monogram box artwork also. Kit features traditional wood/tissue construction with all die cut parts, 'Tube-O-Matic' fuselage construction and 'Rugged Super X Simplified Non-Warping Wing' construction, colorful insignia, detailed full size plans, building instructions, wheels, hardware, tissue and propeller. 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.
Revell TWO Ar-240 C-2 Night Fighter, 1/72, 4824
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
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SALE!! Includes two kits in the one box shown. Kit #1 is never started and inventoried complete with all parts, including decals and instructions. NOTE: Kit #2 has very minor and 'professional' quality subassembly as follows: both stub inboard wing halves assembled (4 pieces total). There is no other assembly. Inventoried 100% complete with all parts, decals and instructions present. Well detailed with all recessed panel lines, cockpit, optional position landing gear and detailed gear wells.
Revell Mercedes Benz 300 SL Gullwing - (ex Renwal), 1/12, H1285
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed Good+
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Still factory sealed. This rare model in very large 1/12 scale features wheels that turn with steering wheel, correctly opening 'gullwing' driver and passenger doors, opening hood & trunk, full interior and luggage, highly detailed engine and engine compartment, full suspension, underside and exhaust detail and spare tire. Usually molded in bright gloss red, light tan, clear, chrome and with real rubber tires.
Airfix Cutty Sark Clipper Ship - Blister Pack, 01268-7
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed Good++
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Still sealed. 1973 Type Four logo blister pack of this full hull kit featuring full hull, deck details and ship's boats, billowing sails and display stand. The scale is not given, but the hull alone measures 4.5 inches long.
Lindberg Chesapeake Bay Skipjack Oyster Boat - (ex Pyro 'Carrie Price'), 1/60, 70850
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good+
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From 1989. Beautiful sloop model from ex-Pyro molds which were originally cut in the early 1960s. Measures 12 inches long when assembled and an excellent kit for that time. Features full hull, optional position keel, optional position cabin and deck hatch if you wish to super-detail the insides, full deck fittings, two detailed small boats, railings and life rings, furled sails (as shown on box art)and rigging material with a rigging diagram. Never started. Factory sealed parts bag with instructions. The Skipjack 'Carrie Price' is an exact replica of a typical small sailing vessel used along the Chesapeake Bay area to dredge for oysters. The center keel stabilizer could be pulled up for working in very shallow water. Until 1942 sail was the only power permitted for oyster dredging; after 1942 the state passed a law allowing power boats to be used. This lead to many skipjacks being converted to power and having the main mast cut down. Although its days are past, many yachtsmen restore and sail this beautiful small craft today.
Russkit Slot Car Porsche RSK Superleggera - Scratch Builder Issue, 1/24, 1400-900
Metal and Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good
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Rare and even rarer in this condition. The contents of this kit are in remarkable condition - all of the small parts (metal, nylon and rubber) are still factory sealed. The box with the car body is in amazing 'near mint' condition. The Russkit motor box is in 'excellent' condition and the motor inside is factory bag sealed and includes detailed instructions. Never started and includes all of the factory packing/display materials. With detailed instructions.
Monogram Superkit F-86 Sabre Jet, 1/60, T5
Wood and Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
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From 1954. Very rare plastic and precarved wood kit. Before there were injection molded plastic kits, model builders worked in wood or metal. Advanced companies, like Monogram, saw the advantage of plastic and began marketing kits with plastic details and fully-carved fuselage, wings, etc. This beautiful kit is one the highest quality composite static kits from the early to mid 1950s. Never started. Inside, the kit is as it left the factory with the small plastic parts still in the factory sealed 'crinkle' bag, unpunched factory painted balsa parts, finished balsa fuselage and wings, red acetate stand, clear windshield, sandpaper, instructions and decals. Never started and complete.
Guillows De Havilland DH-4 - 27 Inch Wingspan RC / Gas / Rubber Flying Model, 205
Wood Model Kit, Box Condition: Good
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Large-scale, well detailed kit from about 1964. Can be flown rubber free flight, gas free flight, or converted to electric RC using modern servos and receivers. Well detailed and features die cut balsa parts, rubber motor, plywood firewall, scale plastic wheels, plastic propeller, vacuform nose / machine guns / pilot busts, two big sheets of full color decals, covering tissue and excellent full size plans. The kit has never been started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions. Guillow's founder, Paul K. Guillow, was a WWI naval aviator. In 1926 he began producing wooden model airplane kits. His 'Shelf Models' were some of the earlier non-flying models in production. Guillow's grew during the model boom of the 1930s, and when the Depression hit the hardest, Guillow's responded with lower prices and became one of the low price leaders, frequently advertising in Model Airplane News and other leading publications. During the war, like most manufacturers, Guillow's was forced to alternative materials such as cardboard and pine. Guillow's survived the post WWII slump by creating many inexpensive profile flying rubber powered aircraft and gliders in the 1950s (along with North Pacific) which became famous - some are still available today. The stick and tissue lines have been updated with laser cut parts and are still in production as of 2009.
Imai Yorktown Pistol, 1/1, B433-1200
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good
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This is a full-size, 14 inch long copy of the actual weapon. Includes a large full-color fold out that doubles as a paint guide. The model is molded in gun metal silver and medium wood brown. The kit has never been started. The parts that were factory sealed (the silver ones) are still in the sealed bags. The two parts that were not factory sealed (brown ones) have been inventoried complete including instructions.
Hasegawa F-15A Streak Eagle, 1/48, 09420
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG+
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Rare and highly detailed model from 2002 with 268 pieces. Never started and the parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions.
Monogram Phantom Mustang P-51D - (F-51D) 50th Anniversary, 1/32, 0067
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good++
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1995 reissue of the great 1960s kit. Widely considered to be one of the best visible airplane action kits ever made. Features a full cut away model with 52interior detail. Buttons on the base activate two motors that make the prop spin, and the main gear and tail wheel retract and extend. Two other levers on the base drop the wing bombs. Never started. The kit has never been started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions.
Classic Airframes Curtiss SBC-3 Helldiver - VS-5 California 1939 / VS-3 1939, 1/48, 412-3995
Multimedia Model Kit, Box Condition: Good-
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Nicely detailed multi-media kit with main injection molded parts, resin cockpit/engine/drop tank/and other details, film instruments and about 2 dozen photoetched parts. Includes decals for the two aircraft listed. The kit has never been started. The resin and PE parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags; the injection molded parts are not sealed and have been inventoried complete. Includes decals and instructions.
Jo-Han Pro Street Comet, 1/25, S-1003
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed NM
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Still factory sealed. Features Boss 429 CID V8 engine, detailed engine compartment, opening hood, detailed chassis, complete interior, custom mag wheels, hood scoop, roll bar, hi-rise dual quad manifold, four-tube headers, optional chrome tach and gauges, a full color decal sheet and more. Molded in color, chrome, clear, red tint clear and with rubber tires.
Berkeley Cessna 180 - 36 Inch Wingspan Flying Model Airplane Kit, 1/12, 4-7
Wood Model Kit, Box Condition: VG
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Big 1/12 scale model with a 36 inch wingspan. Originally designed as a gas powered model for free flight or control line, or can be converted to electric power and modern RC (radio control) gear. Features rubber wheels, sheeted (wood covered) design on many parts, covering material for the others, clear window material, formed wire parts, full size plans, die cut balsa and plywood parts and more. The model has not been started. Inventoried 100% complete with all parts and instructions. Berkeley is a very famous manufacturer of flying model kits from the Golden Age of flying aviation, about 1932-1954. Founded in 1933 by William Effinger, the company was quite progressive in producing quality kits - it was likely the Berkeley 'Buccaneer' was the first gas powered model in kit form. In the later 1930s, Effinger acquired the services of a very talented Henry Struck. Struck went on to design numerous award-winning kits under the Berkeley name. Berkeley weathered the post WWII recession and emerged as a major kit producer in the late 1940 and 1950s. These were great years for Berkeley and they produced some incredible and large kits. The company went bankrupt in about 1960 however. Fox engines (Duke Fox) bought the company and released the kits alongside his own FOX models and engines. This arrangement did not last, and in the early 1960s the Berkeley name disappeared from hobby shop shelves.