Wood Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
$34
From the early to mid 1960s. This stick and tissue kit can be powered by rubber as designed, converted to electric or built for static display. Features traditional construction techniques with quality, die-cut balsa sheet parts, stripwood, fully formed wheels and thrust button, wood stock as required, fully formed wire landing gear, rubber motor, plastic prop, wood thrust button, clear material for windscreens, a sheet of full color insignia, covering tissue and detailed, full-size plans and building instructions. Complete and never started. 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.
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG
$24
Cleanly molded kit in the very colorful Craftmaster box artwork. Includes large centerline Matra guided missile and French Air Force markings. The kit has never been started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions.
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
$34
Very highly detailed model that features all fine recessed panel lines, detailed cockpit and crew station, two crew members, detailed engines, optional position canopy and more. The kit has never been started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions.
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: NM
$34
Very nicely molded kit with all finely recessed panel detail. Features full cockpit, detailed gear wells, optional position canopy, ALQ-119 Pod, 600 and 370 gallon drop tanks, AIM-9B Sidewinders, AIM-7E Sparrows and decals for five aircraft. Never started and inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions.
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed NM
$28
Still factory sealed. Hard-to-find special release with Finnish markings. Very cleanly molded with all recessed panel lines.
Wood and Metal Model Kit, Box Condition: VG+
$38
High quality Ambroid kit from the 'Golden Age' of HO models. The limited-issue Ambroid kits are widely considered to be among the finest Craftsman kits issued. They can be built to a museum-quality display or used on your layout. The kit is made from quality Northeastern Scale Lumber and features all pre-scribed and milled hardwood parts, milled detail parts as needed, wood and metal stock, a factory-sealed envelope of detail parts and full instructions and plans. The kit has never been started. Factory sealed small parts and the other parts have been inventoried complete including instructions. If you have an interest in these highly accurate HO kits and the revolution they created in modeling, please read the article about their history located on this website.
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
$38
1965 Pyro issue from original molds. In the early to mid 1960s the Pyro company chose many of its 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. The model includes real rubber tires, chrome plated parts, clear windshields and light lenses and colored injection molded parts. Features detailed chassis with suspension, gas tank and steering linkage, complete motor and interior, spoked wheels, optional convertible top and removable hood. The kit has never been started. Inventoried 100% complete including instructions.
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good+
$22
Highly detailed kit with fine recessed panel lines, full interior with crew stations, optional torpedo load and more. Incluces decals with paint guide for two different aircraft. The kit has never been started. Internal factory sealed bag including decals and instructions. NOTE: instructions are high-quality color photocopies.
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG++
$19
1960s issue from Marusan molds and a very nicely molded small scale kit. Never started and inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions. UPC stood for Universal Powermaster Corporation which was based out of New York City, NY. UPC did not cut their own molds, but bought kits already molded from other manufacturers and re-boxed the kits in the USA. Scott Eidson, the famous artist best known for his artwork with Revell, also did UPC box art in the 1960s. All UPC production ended in the 1970s.
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good-
$28
Big-scale (1/50) issue from the late 1970s/early 1980s. Features 56 pieces, basic cockpit, fine raised panel lines & recessed control surface outlines and much more. Includes decals for both aircraft listed. The kit has never been started. Inventoried 100% complete including decals and instructions.
Metal Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed
$8
Still factory sealed and superior in detail to plastic injection molded engines. Includes one finely cast, all metal engine.
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good++
$38
From the 1980s. This single vertical stabilizer variant of the Z 1007 is well detailed for that time. Never started. All parts are still in the factory sealed bag. Decals and instructions are "excellent+" condition.
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed NM
$44
Still factory sealed. This reissue is from the original 1950s molds of the famous and classic Strombecker sci-fi kit. Designed by Krafft Ehricke of Convair's Astronautics Division as a 200 foot long, 600 mile-high orbiting laboratory for 4 men. 24 inches long when assembled.
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc++
$44
Large 1/32 scale kit. Very nicely detailed with all fine recessed panel lines, working elevator and swing wings and wing weapons pylons, complete cockpits, optional position nose with radome details, optional position speed brakes and landing gear, ECM, BOX 101 and AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles, MW-1, drop tanks and decals for RAF / Italy / Germany. The kit has never been started. The small parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags; the larger parts were not sealed and have been inventoried complete. Includes decals and instructions.
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good+
$32
Academy Series from the very early 1960s and a Revell of Great Britain issue. This is the same molds as the original 'S' kit and makes an ideal builder. Never started and inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions.
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed NM
$20
Still factory sealed and dates from the mid 1970s. This kit is from quality Airfix molds and is from the MPC 'Air Combat Collection', which includes ground crew. Note that this issue does not have '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 (possibly with this issue) although MPC continued to distribute Airfix models.
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed Exc+
$42
Still factory sealed and from 1973. The shortcomings of the original Lockheed Electra gave it a short career as an airliner. But the sound design was modified into one of the most successful and long serving of all ASW aircraft - the Orion. Revell seized upon this opportunity to recoup some of the money sunk into the Electra molds. The molds were modified to make this kit, the "A" version of this venerable patrol aircraft. (please see the article about the mold conversion this on this website.) Features optional position landing gear & fuselage entry door, rotating wheels & propellers, pylon-mounted searchlight, MAD boom and more.
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
$56
First issue hardbox dated 1964. This well detailed and molded kit features all parts so you can build any one of four versions including 2-Seat Night Fighter, day fighter, 'Droop Snoot' with bomber nose and F5 photo recon version, detailed cockpit, detailed cannon & machine gun bay with opening hatches, optional bomb and missile loadout, crew figures and more. Never started and inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions.
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed Exc
$19
Still factory sealed and a high quality kit from 1989. Features fine moldings, all recess panel lines, good cockpit, gear well detail, drop tanks, AA-9 and AA-8 air-to-air missiles and more. Includes decals for multiple aircraft.
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
$34
Very well detailed for this scale. Intended for HO layouts but are considered fine kits on their own. The kit has never been started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes instructions. The back of many Jordan Highway Miniatures boxes reads "Purchaser Please Note: This is not a 'quickie' kit for kids. It is a highly detailed, authentically scaled craft-type kit, designed for modelers of HO Scale Railroads."
