Nitto U-Boat Type VIIC - Motorized, 166-50
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good
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Very rare and features fantastic early 1960s artwork. One of only 9 Nitto ship kits, and 5 of the nine were from ex-Sankyo molds. No scale is mentioned but the kit measures 7 inches long when assembled. It was designed for operation in water and features a red lower hull, light gray upper hull, 4 other light gray parts, a metal ballast weight, metal prop shaft, thrust bearing and unopened metal tube of glue. The kit has never been started. All parts are still in the two factory sealed bags. The instructions are on the back of the box.
Monogram Speedee Bilt B-25 Mitchell - Wood and Plastic Model Aircraft, H-1
Wood and Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good+
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Rare early Monogram kit from the early 1950s. Fantastically well detailed and presented multi-media kit with 34 injection molded parts in clear, red, black and gray acetate and 57 die cut or shaped balsa parts including the famous Monofoil pre-formed wings. This example has never been started. The yellow, clear and red black plastic parts are still in the factory sealed red boxes. The other parts were never sealed and have been inventoried 100% complete with decals (in amazing 'near mint' condition), sand paper, plans and instruction book (both also in 'near mint' condition). It still has all of the correct internal packing as shown. Please note that this kit must be shipped insured. This is the first large-scale non-flying scale Speedee-Bilt model, the B-25 Mitchell. Before there were plastic models, there were wooden aircraft kits. These usually came in two types - solid and stick and tissue. The solid models were static and usually contained a few blocks of balsa and sometimes a detail part or two. These "Make Wood Look Like Plane" models required a very high level of skill in carving and finishing. The stick and tissue variety were slightly easier to build and provided the ultimate thrill - they could fly when complete with rubber power (and later with free-flight gas and eventually RC). They still required a great deal of skill, so manufacturers sought ways to make model building more accessible to everyone. One idea was pre-carving and/or prefabrication. This raised prices, naturally. Many manufacturers launched lines of 'easy' to build flying models but only Monogram succeeded in making an entire line at an affordable price that would actual fly. Monogram, however, wanted to make true scale models that could still be assembled easily. So they created the four large and highly detailed non-flying scale Speedee-Bilt bombers - the B-25, B-26, B-24 and B-17. The kits were a tremendous success and sold well in the early to mid 1950s.
Academy Chieftain MkII - Motorized Remote Control - (ex Tamiya), 1/25, TS148
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
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Large-scale (1/25) model from Tamiya molds. Designed for realistic motorized operation through a hand-held remote. Includes metal gearbox with nylon gears and dual electric motors, factory-wired switch, motorizing hardware and final drive on the sprocket wheels. The tank features individual treads, working suspension, opening hatches and more. Never started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions.
Mania B5N2 Kate - Torpedo Bomber, 1/72, CA-4001
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG++
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Excellent, high quality kit. Features all fine recessed panel lines, highly detailed cockpit, clear side windows, torpedo loadout, a beautiful full color painting guide and decals for four different aircraft - EII-307 / AI - 301 / EI-310 and KEB-306. This kit has not been started. The parts are either still in the factory sealed bag or inventoried 100% complete with all parts, decals and instructions.
Airfix Fairey Swordfish II - Royal Navy, 1/72, 02005-1
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG+
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Type four logo issue, likely from the late 1970s or 1980s. The kit has never been started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions.
Revell USS John Paul Jones DD932 (Forrest Sherman Class), 1/320, H309
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed Exc+
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Still factory sealed but the seal has a split. Very nicely detailed kit dated 1971. Measures over 15 inches long when assembled and features rotating turrets, elevating guns, torpedo tubes, radar, decals and flag sheet.
Revell Vietnam Air Aces - F-4J Phantom II And Mig-21 Fishbed - Ace Pilot Pete Pettigrews Aircraft and Ace Pilot Col. Tomb, 1/48, 4769
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good-
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1987 special issue that contains both 1/48 scale models. The F-4J features detailed cockpit and landing gear, optional external tanks, slotted stabilators, AIM-9 Sidewinder and AIM-7 Sparrow air-to-air missiles and more. The Mig-21 features opening canopy, detailed cockpit, supersonic drop tank and optional position landing gear. Includes 'near mint' condition decal sheet for both aces. Never started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions.
Revell AV-8B Harrier II - With Glue / Paints / Brush - Marines VMA-542 Flying Tigers MCAS Cherry Point North Carolina, 1/48, 85-6656
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
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1998 issue features 95 pieces, detailed cockpit and wheel wells, optional position speed brake and detailed brake well, realistic intake and exhaust, drop tanks, bombs, AIM-9 Sidewinders, gun and ammo pack, pilot figure, optional position canopy and more. Never started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions.
Lindberg Civil War Blockade Runner - Harriett Lane / Cutter 'Lavinia' - ex Pyro, 1/124, 715
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good-
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NOTE: Ideal builder only; not collectible. Please read carefully for the condition. 1985 Lindberg issue from the original Pyro molds dating to the late 1950s. Large scale, full hull kit with very good detail for that time. Includes full rigging instructions. Molded in black, butterscotch and medium blue and the hull is factory-painted copper below the waterline. The kit has never been started. Inventoried and NOTE: missing the vacuform sail; (2) flat paddles (easily made from stock plastic), one anchor stock and one round support for the paddle wheel cover (easily made from cylindrical stock). Otherwise includes all other parts and instructions. After the original 1960s issue, Pyro re-marketed the Harriett Lane as the 'Lavinia', which was what the Confederates renamed her when they captured her and made her a blockage runner. The Harriett Lane was built in 1858 and named for President Buchanan's niece. The cutter was 180 feet long with a 30 foot beam and displacement was 670 tons. Armament consisted of 3-9 inch Dahlgrens and 1-30 lb Parrot Rifle. She was built at a time when steam was not fool-proof, so she is rigged for full sails. Harriett Lane served as the Presidential Yacht, the fired the first shot of the Civil War. She chased down blockade runners until January 1, 1863 when she was attacked by five Confederate Gun Boats and boarded. She was captured and renamed the Lavinia and was used as a blockade runner. Near the end of the war she caught fire at sea, and put into Havana Harbor. Federal forces took her again and rebuilt her in 1869 as the bark 'Elliot Ritchie'. She was abandoned at sea in 1884.
Hasegawa Mitsubishi A6M8 Zero Fighter Type 54 / 64, 1/48, SP206
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: NM
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Special issue of the A6M8 dated 1997 that includes numerous resin parts to make a correct aircraft. Very well detailed featuring complete cockpit, detailed engine and gear wells, drop tank, optional position canopy and more. Never started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions.
Airfix BAe Sea Harrier FRS1 - No.899 NAS HMS Hermes Falklands Campaign May/June 1982 / 700A Flight FAA RNAS Yeovilton UK 1979 / No. 801 NAS FAA RNAS Yeovilton 1988, 1/72, A03078
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good+
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An excellent kit featuring fine recessed panel lines, very good cockpit, detailed engine inlet and compressor fans, optional intake parts, detailed gear wells, optional position speed brake and landing gear, drop tank, air to surface missiles, AIM-9 Sidewinders and a full color painting guide and decals for all aircraft listed. NOTE: this kit has "professional" quality minor assembly as follows: wing halves; parts 36 (2 parts) to fuselage sides; seat to cockpit floor. There is no other assembly. Inventoried complete with all parts, decals and instructions present.
Airfix Super Entendard - Argentina Navy Espora Air Base Late 1982 / French Aeronavale No.17 Flotille 1989, 1/72, 03060
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
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1990 release that is well detailed with 43 parts. Features very fine raised and recessed panel detail, 'good' cockpit, two piece canopy, optional position landing gear and speed brakes, separately molded wing flaps, 'Falklands' strike configuration load (one Exocet on one wing and a drop tank on the other) and more. There are decals and paint guide for both aircraft listed. Never started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions.
Hubley 1930 Packard Model 740 Custom Roadster, 1/22, 4860-500
Metal Model Kit, Box Condition: Good+
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This model is one of a very popular and collectible series that Hubley issue in the 1960s or early '70s It is very well detailed with 143 pieces and features highly detailed cat-metal body, chassis, hood, engine and other detail parts with injection molded details, clear parts, and a large tree of chrome plated parts, full rolling chassis build-up just like the real car with excellent engine detail, removable hood, complete exhaust and suspension, working steering, flexible radiator hoses, rubber tires, chrome spoke wheels, working worm-gear steering, full interior detail with very clear thin windshields and special interior side panels. Never started. All the parts that were factory sealed are still sealed; the parts that were never sealed (the large metal ones) have been inventoried complete. With instructions and decals. In the 1930s Packard was the style leader in America and a beautiful, fast status symbol. Packards were not the most expensive, but were the most desired cars. The 1930s Packards are seen as the high point of the brand.
Revell Teddy the Koala Bear, 1/1, H1901-198
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good-
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Rare. First and only issue dated 1958. Life-sized plastic kit with eucalyptus tree stand, injection molded parts, Revell Cement, brush, and three colors of realistic 'fur' to apply after assembly. Never started. Includes three sealed packages of 'fur,' Revell S Cement glass jar (dried, of course) with metal lid, red cardboard container to hold it, paint brush and all plastic parts. Complete with instructions. Please note that while the kit inside is like new, the box has a significant stain along the left of the box top that extends down to the left long side and upper short side.
Zvezda HMS Dreadnought With Pontos Detail Up Set, 1/350, 9039
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed Exc
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Build the ultimate 1/350 Dreadnought! includes Pontos Detail Up Set #35002F1 which features 99 scribed brass parts, four sheets of photoetching, wooden deck, 24 resin parts, torpedo nets, black coated anchor chain, dry transfers for draft markings and highly illustrated instructions. Never used and with all contents still in the factory sealed bags. The actual model is still factory sealed. It is from new molds and is a very nice full-hull model.
Lindberg Lumber Schooner Forester, 852-60
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG
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As the West Coast lumber trade became big business in late 1800s, the industry needed a way to move vast amounts of timber. The answer was lumber schooners, built of the same Douglas fir as the planks they carried. These ships had shallow drafts for crossing coastal bars, uncluttered deck arrangements for ease of loading and were especially handy for maneuvering into the tiny, Northern California ports. The C.A. Thayer was one such schooner, built in 1895 and preserved today as a museum ship in San Francisco. This is the 1969 issue hardbox issue of this small but nicely detailed ship. It measures about 8 inches long when assembled and includes vacuformed sails. Never started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes instructions. The actual lumber schooner Forester was 217 feet long, 680 ton, 32 feet wide, drew 13.6 feet of water with a displacement of 1,812.5 tons. She cost $60,000 to build and netted between $12,000 and $19,000 per trip for her investors during the heyday of the trade. As of 2006 you could see see her wreckage along the Martinez shoreline.
Nichimo IJN Chokai Heavy Cruiser Motorized, 1/500, 5
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Poor
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Nicely detailed scale kit for static display or operation in water. The box is poor, but the kit inside is factory-new. Includes electric motor, all required metal hardware and adjustable rudder. Features one piece lower hull (molded in red), one piece upper hull (molded in gray) that fits the lower hull flawlessly, detailed deck and superstructure, rotating main turrets and separately molded secondary battery and AA guns, catapults, two floatplanes, display stand and more. The kit has never been started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes motor and instructions in both English and Japanese.
Alliance Waserflug We-271 V-1, 1/72, 72019
Resin Model Kit, Box Condition: Good+
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Rare. Beautifully cast in high-definition resin with all fine recessed panel lines, cockpit, optional flying boat or landing gear configuration and full decals. The kit has never been started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions. This amphibious flying boat was produced in 1938 by the German aviation company Weser Flugzeugbau GmbH. The purpose was to test an improved wing design developed originally by the Rohrback firm in Berlin. The aircraft was a twin engine, all-metal transport with a cantilever high wing. Its wheels retracted into wells in its outrigger floats, vertically braced under the engines. Testing began in 1938 but the We 271 first flew as a landplane on June 26, 1939 and as a flying boat two days later. During the this first water flight, a critical design problem became obvious: waves cause by the hull and floats caused a large amount of water to strike the propellers, which disturbed the effective power and greatly shortened the the life of the props. Water deflectors will installed to a workable satisfaction. There is no agreement on the history after that point. One source reports that the We-271 then has between 60 and 70 flights and on May 1 1942 it was flowsn to a testing plant in Travemunde. Another reports that as early as spring of 1940 it was flown to the testing center at Rechlin but the next year it was shot down by a Spitfire and was scrapped later in the war.
Merlin Models Rumpler CIII/4 - (Purple Box), 1/72
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: NM
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Limited production kit, less than 2000 made. Features nice injection molded parts and cast metal details with decals and instructions. Never started and still in the internal factory sealed bag.
Hasegawa F-15C Eagle With Painted Canopy / Italeri F-15E Strike Eagle / Hobby Craft F-15D/DJ Eagle, 1/72, SS7
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc++
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SALE! Includes all three 1/72 Eagle models in their original boxes. None of them have been started. The Hobby Craft kit is still in the internal factory sealed bags and with decals and instructions. The Hasegawa and Italeri models have never been started. They have been inventoried complete with all parts present and includes decals and instructions.