Monogram Grumman TBF Avenger - Confederate Air Force Ghost Squadron Issue, 1/48, 5210
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG++
$38
1988 reissue of the original Four Star kit and is famous for it's many action features including retractable landing gear, opening bomb bay doors and dropping torpedo, working ball turret with elevating machine gun, rotating propeller and wheels, two crew members and more. The kit has never been started. Many parts are still in the internal factory sealed bag; the ones that are not still sealed have been inventoried complete and includes decals and instructions.
MPC 25th Anniversary 1978 Chevrolet Corvette, 1/25, 1-3708
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG++
$38
Special issue includes pinstripe decals for the limited edition 25th 'Vette. Has fully detailed engine, chassis underside, suspension and interior. Hood opens and "T" tops can be removed. Molded in white, chrome, clear, transparent red and with real rubber tires. Never started. Inventoried and NOTE: missing 1 piece, the A/C compressor. This is s simple cylinder so it is easily fabricated. Otherwise complete with all other parts, instructions and decals present.
Hawk North American OV-10A Bronco Chrome Plated, 1/48, 214
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed VG+
$48
Still factory sealed. 1967 Chrome plated version with John Andrews box artwork. This model is still the only 1/48 injection molded kit of the short-wing 'A' Variant. It features gun packs, AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles, bomb load, good cockpit, optional position canopy and more.
Airfix DH Tiger Moth II - Craftmaster Issue, 1/72, 4-29
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG+
$18
1960s issue with colorful artwork of a pilot and his instructor making a low airfield pass. Very nicely molded and detailed kit. Never started. Inventoried 100% complete with all parts, decals and instructions.
Air Lines Vickers Vimy Alcock & Brown - First Non-Stop Transatlantic Flight, 1/72, 12901
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG
$34
From the mid 1960s with very colorful box art. A nice kit for that time. Finely molded with separate ailerons, elevator and rudder. The kit has never been started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions. Box art is by the famous Jo Kotula who did 1930s covers for the magazine 'Model Airplane News' and later the Aurora box art of the late 1950s. Air Lines kits are all Frog molds that the Lines Brothers imported to the USA between 1964-1966. The kits, decals and instructions were made in England, then imported to the USA where Testors created the boxes with the colorful trading cards on the back. There are one or two trading cards on each box which show the boxart but not the advertising/logo.
Hasegawa Kawanishi Type-94-1 Alf with Catapult - IJN Cruiser Nachi or Kashima Air Group, 1/72, NP11
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc+
$42
Hard to find kit that features a highly detailed catapult and aircraft with choice of two decals. The kit has never been started. Internal factory sealed bag including decals and instructions.
Maircraft Boeing F4B-4 - Solid Wood Model Airplane - (F4B4), 1/48, S16
Wood Model Kit, Box Condition: Good++
$22
Maircraft was originally founded in the early or mid 1930s by Gordon Christoph and went by the name Aircraft Model Company. The company produced a typical line of solid 'profile cut' kits that required the usual high talent levels for carving and finishing. A former Comet Model Airplane & Supply Co. salesman, Jack Mair, bought the company in the early 1940s and renamed it Maircraft. This company was one of the handful of solid kit producers who issued models in a consistent 1/48 scale during the 1930s and 1940s (others included Hawk and Dyna-Model). This lead to one of the most desirable and rare model kits ever produced in the USA - the wood/plastic 1/48 United DC-3 model issued immediately after World War 2. Other than the P-61 and a few other Maircraft offerings, most were simple kits that sold for the low price of about 35 cents and gave the owners many hours of pleasurable work. This kit features a full size plan with instructions steps and templates, 2D cut fuselage and wings, other wooden parts, a factory-sealed small envelope of details and full color decals by Walthers! (Usually it was just a cut-out insignia sheet). The kit has never been started. The parts that were factory sealed are still in the sealed bags. The parts that were not factory sealed have been inventoried complete including instructions.
Monogram B-52 with X-15 - (B-52B), 1/72, 85-5716
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed Exc++
$189
Still factory sealed. Hard-to-find issue from from 2011 with 161 parts. Contains both X-15 (with external tanks) and B-52B kits and all special parts to convert the B-52 to a carrier.
Revell Bell UH-1 Huey Attack Helicopter, 1/32, H259
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG++
$74
1970 release. This large, well detailed model features an 18 inch rotor span, detailed Lycoming T53 Jet Engine with removable cowling, highly detailed interior and cockpit with opening cabin doors, moving rotors and weapons system with SS-11 Missiles, M-6 Machine Guns, 7.62 MM Machine Guns and M-6 Guns & Rocket Pods. Includes pilot and gunner figure and US Army First Air Cavalry markings. The kit has never been started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions.
Tamiya DeHavilland Mosquito FB Mk.VI/NF Mk.11 - RAF No. 143 Sq / No. 157 Sq / No. 487 Sq, 1/48, 61062-3400
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed NM
$34
Still factory sealed. This 1998 issue is very highly detailed inside and out.
Life-Like Gloster Gladiator, 1/48, 09607
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG
$18
Ex-Pyro and nicely molded. Includes cockpit, positionable pilot figure and molded in realistic fabric surfaces. There is no assembly but NOTE: a few sink holes on the wings are neatly filled with modeling putty. Inventoried complete with all parts, decals and instructions present.
Airfix Spitfire IX - Craftmaster Issue, 1/72, 1222-50
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG++
$24
1960s issue with wonderful Craftmaster artwork. Larger box with white sides issue. The kit has never been started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions.
MPC Savoia-Marchetti SM-79 - (ex Airfix), 1/72, 1101-100
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG
$24
The SM-79 was considered an excellent aircraft and one of the best land based torpedo bombers of the war. Designed and serving as an airliner from 1934 onward, 100 were supplied to the Nationalist Air Force for the Spanish Civil War where they served as day and night bombers. The aircraft performed well in the Med and against Malta, sinking many allied ships. This nicely detailed late 1960s/early 1970s model features moving rudder, elevator and ailerons, cockpit detail and torpedo loadout. Never started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions. Decals are in rare 'near mint' condition which is unusual for these kits. This kit is from quality Airfix molds and is one of the MPC issues with standard & custom decals, standard propellers or clear 'in flight' prop discs and the unique clear modular display stand. Dates from the late 1960s/early 1970s. Note that this issue still has 'Craft Master' under the MPC logo. Before this, MPC was marketing Airfix kits under the Craftmaster name in the USA. This continued for several issues and was finally discontinued although MPC continued to distribute Airfix and their own models.
Airfix Dornier Do-217 E.2 - Craftmaster Issue, 1/72, 2-89
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
$24
From the 1960s. Action-packed artwork shows a British fighter in a hot gun battle with the main Do-217, which is receiving major damage. Another Do-217 released it's bomb load, while the starboard wing on another snaps away in flames as the crew hits the silk. Kit features crew stations and a crew of four, elevating gun and rotating turret, separately molded ailerons, elevators and rudders, optional position landing gear (or even retractable undercarriage but not doors), choice of aft fuselage 'long' tail cone containing the early dive brake or 'short' tail cone after the dive brake was discontinued. Never started. Inventoried 100% complete with all parts, decals and instructions present.
Hudson Miniatures 1909 Stanley Steamer - Old Timers, 1/16
Wood Model Kit, Box Condition: VG
$78
Very well detailed large 1/16 kit from 1949. Features plastic wheels, grill, steering wheel, lights and other accessories and wooden main parts. Although all of Hudson's 1/16 kits have excellent detail, this one has even more detail than usual thanks to Hudson's engineers having access to the actual car. This kit has never been started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts, plans and instructions present. Hudson Miniatures created a very popular line of automobile kits in a constant 1/16 scale shortly after WWII. The kits sold very well...so well that you could argue that Gowland & Gowland borrowed Hudson's subject matter for their ground-breaking 'Highway Pioneers.' The Hudson Miniatures 'Old Timers' even spawned a line of imitators, with Fador's 'Smallster' being one of the better in quality. Sales did drop on the appearance and popularity of the much smaller (and less accurate) Gowland/Revell 'Highway Pioneers' in 1951. When the all-injection molded Gowland kits proved not to be a passing fad, Hudson quickly planned and released his own all-plastic, small-scale competition called 'Lil' Old Timers Quickie Kits.' The kits were of excellent quality, but it was too little too late. Additionally, sales of the excellent wooden kits faltered further in the next few years with the introduction of accurate, 1/24 and 1/32 all-plastic cars in the mid 1950s. This forced Hudson to discontinue the wood kits and the plastic line was sold to Revell and subsequently re-released. Today, these excellent, big 1/16 kits are often the only model available of these early automobiles. In the mid 1960s Aurora thought so highly of Hudson Miniatures that they purchased the wood kit assets and released a very small number of these in all-plastic models.
Revell German U-Boat Type VIIC /41 Atlantic Version - U292 1 U-Flottille Brest 1944 / U318 13 Flottille Narvik Norway 1945 / U998 5 Flottille Kiel 1943 / 1004 31 Flottille Hamburg 1944, 1/144, 05100
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
$34
2010 issue from completely new molds. This Revell of Germany kit is very highly detailed and finely molded with over 100 pieces and measures over 18 inches long when assembled. Includes painting guide and decals for the four U-Boats listed above. Never started and the parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions.
Revell Messerschmitt Bf-110 G-4 - (Bf110G4), 1/32, H250
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG
$65
Hard to find 1974 issue with great box artwork. Large and well detailed kit features detailed engines, removable cowls, full cockpit, hinged canopies, crew figures, detailed weapons bay and removable access cover, complete radar antenna, very good landing gear detail and excellent decals. Never started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions.
Hobby Craft Philippine P-26 Peashooter - Philippine Army Air Corps 6 Sq 1941 or Guatemala Air Force 1943-1955, 1/48, HC1559
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good++
$32
Features all recessed fine panel lines, 'very good' cockpit, optional position entry hatch, detailed engine, rigging diagram and decals for two aircraft. The kit has never been started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions.
AV USK Kawasaki Ki-32 Mary, 1/72, AV1007
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG+
$28
Limited edition kit that is very nicely molded. Features fine panel line detail, interior, full decals and painting guide. The kit has never been started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions.
Airfix DH Comet 4B - Dan-Air Skyking Series, 1/144, 03170-7
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
$36
Very nicely detailed and molded kit from 1980. Features clear windows, full landing gear and passenger boarding stairs. Includes colorful Dan-Air London decals. Never started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions. The initial Comet Is were in operation long before the 707, which gave the British an incredible post-war lead in the expanding civil aviation market. Just as the Comet was flying high and orders were pouring in from around the world, Comets began to mysteriously fall out of the sky. Everything from lighting to terrorist bombs were blamed. For months the root cause went undiscovered. Then, in a landmark investigation that is considered the first modern post-crash autopsy, it was discovered that the stresses around a small ADF window on the top of the fuselage were causing metal fatigue failure when the fuselage was pressurized. To confirm this, a Comet I was placed in a water tank and subjected to pressurization stresses. After some time, a dramatic failure occurred. Then parts of a crashed Comet were pulled from underwater proving once and for all that this was the root cause.