Hobby Craft Morane Saulnier M.S. 406 - (MS-406) - GC III/6 1940 'Pierre Le Gloan' / Turkey / Luftwaffe, 1/48, HC1587
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
$32
Nicely molded and detailed 1/48 scale model featuring all recessed panel lines, very good cockpit detail, two-piece (optional position) canopy, fully enclosed wheel wells and more. Includes decals & paint guide for all three aircraft. The model as never been started. The parts are still in the factory sealed bags. With decals and instructions.
Planet Models Heinkel He-162B Volksjager with 2 AS-014 Pulse Jets - Luftwaffe, 1/72, 009
Resin Model Kit, Box Condition: VG+
$39
Rare. Very highly detailed resin cast kit with clear canopy. Decals and paint guide are included for the aircraft shown. The kit has never been started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions.
AMT Chrysler Imperial Western Pickup Truck, 1/25, T148-150
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good++
$169
Very rare. I believe the base vehicle is a '65 Imperial and this was an Alexander Brothers custom job - but that is just conjecture. An excellent kit with full engine and compartment, opening hood, 'horseshoe' door handles and brake pedal, custom interior, optional top, branding iron or steer horns hood ornament and a large sheet of woodgrain and text decals (in 'new' condition). Also includes white wall stickers. Molded in white, clear, red-tinted clear, chrome plate and with rubber tires. The kit has never been started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions.
White Eagle Beech C-45 - Bagged, 1/48, 109
Vacuform Model Kit, Box Condition: Good++
$14
Large-scale vacuform kit with main airframe parts, metal props and cast resin cowls & engines, landing gear struts and wheels/tires. Never started and inventoried complete. Vacuform kits are only recommended for people experienced with this type of kit. Previous experience and scratch building skills are required.
Revell Merchant Fleet Gift C3 Freighter Hawaiian Pilot / Standard Oil T-2 Tanker J.L. Hanna / Harbor Tug Long Beach, G332-495
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good+
$495
Rare 1956 Revell Gift set containing all three ships and even the unopened tube of colorful Revell "S" cement. This was the first and only issue of this specific gift set and features spectacular special box artwork. The tugboat is 1/108 scale and the tanker and cargo ship are both 1/400. Inside, the kit is 100% correct. The special color cardboard over lay is factory fresh. The tug and C-3 lower hulls are factory painted red (the T-2 was molded in red so it was not painted). Decals are included. The instruction sheets are excellent with the typical yellowing as the only flaw. The three kits have not been started. The tug and freighter still have the small parts in the factory sealed clear bags; the parts that were never sealed have been inventoried complete. The tanker has been inventoried 100% complete. All three kits include decals and instructions. The box has brilliant color and gloss, four solid corners and no repairs. There is no tape, tape marks, price tags or price tag marks. However, there is moderate and light general wear and 'dings' on the two lower corners as shown. Shipping insurance is required with this kit.
Hobby Craft Northrop F-89A / B Scorpion - With Markings for 2 USAF Aircraft - (F89) - BAGGED, 1/72, HC1370
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: No Box
$29
Bagged kit - there is no box. The box is shown for reference only. Hard-to-find early "A" or "B" variant of the F-89 Scorpion. Nicely molded model featuring all fine recessed panel lines, very good cockpit, detailed landing gear wells, optional position canopy as well as wing tip mounted tanks and decals for two aircraft. Never started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions.
Revell Sikorsky S-55 - Pre 'S' Issue, 1/48, H214-89
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc+
$145
1955 Pre-S hardbox issue with the box in 'Excellent+' condition and artwork by Richard Kishady. Features detailed cockpit and two pilots, rotating main and tail rotors, detailed engine and optional position clam-shell nose doors. Includes the famous clear 'New Revelving Swivel Base." Never started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions. Decals, instructions, box and stand are all correct for this issue and the parts are 100% complete but NOTE: the olive drab plastic is not high gloss. That could mean that these parts were made near the end of this production run or are from the Great Britain issue. The instructions are intact but have a stain and are only 'good.' Decals are flat and excellent with only typical age yellowing as the only flaw
Hudson Miniatures 1914 Stutz Bearcat - Old Timers, 1/16
Wood Model Kit, Box Condition: Good
$85
Well detailed, large 1/16 scale kit from 1949. Features plastic wheels, grill, steering wheel, lights and other accessories, wooden and metal main parts and some die-cut cardstock parts as well. 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. The instructions even warn that this kit will take more time than usual due to the 'tedious detail.' This kit has never been started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts, plans and instructions. 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.
Monogram Black Widow P-61, 1/48, 7546
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good
$32
First issue 'Tall box' is dated 1974 and hasd the best mold quality. This is an incredibly well detailed model for that time and features optional parts for different variants, very fine raised panel lines and recessed control surface outlines, highly detailed interior with all crew stations, optional position canopy, detailed wheel wells, removable cowl with detailed engine, optional position wing flaps and crew boarding door with stairs, rotating turret with elevating guns, optional drop tanks, 55 gallon drum, three ground crew figures and more. Never started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions. NOTE: missing Diorama Instructions.
Hasegawa Mitsubishi Ki-67 Type 4 Heavy Bomber Hiryu Peggy - Special Long Range Bomber, 1/72, 00298
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: NM
$48
Rare limited issue from 2002 with 129 pieces, resin parts for extended wings and fuel tanks as well as cast metal details. Very highly detailed with full interior and optional position bomb bay doors with full interior and bomb load. Has markings for two aircraft both from the 14th Fighter Group. One is from the 3rd Sq, Arita Air Base August 1945 and the other from the 2nd Sq Irumagawa Air Base 1945. Never started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions.
Aurora Sikorsky S-55 Helo - (ex-Helicopters for Industry), 1/45, 503-100
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc+
$285
Second issue, likely from around 1963/64. Has the same box art as the original issue but with the newer style logo at the upper right. From the ex-Helicopters for Industry molds with fine raised detail, cockpit seats, instrument panel and control sticks, opening cabin door, floats with wheels and decals for US Air Force, Navy, Army or Marines. Molded in a stunning gloss dark blue and clear. The kit has never been started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions.
Cadet Stratobomber Balsa Glider, G-11
Wood Model Kit, Box Condition: VG
$45
Rare kit from the 1940s in fine, never used condition. This is an easy to assemble glider featuring factory painted and decorated parts. The solid fuselage is red and has the profile outline of an advanced pre WWII bomber. The wing is die cut and decorated with four printed engine nacelles and "STRATOBOMBER" across the top. The horizontal and vertical stabs are die cut and even the original nose weight is included. The instructions are on the back of the box. It has never been built and is complete. Cadet Aeronautics was a division of Winner Engineering Corporation, Trenton NJ. This line consisted of a P-40, P-51, Spitfire, Hellcat, P-47, Airacobra, Culver Model V, Aeronca Champion and Stinson Voyager 150 (numbered B-1 through B-9 respectively). Cadet also had a very popular line of ready-to-fly gliders such as the 'Stratobomber' and many others.
Sanwa Boeing B-29 Superfortress, 1/208, 134
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG++
$179
Very Rare. Early, colorful issue from the late 1950s. The kit is dated by the 'Sanwa Plastic' logo, which was normally used in the late 1950s up to 1960. Very nicely detailed for that time with raised (and sparse, not overdone) surface detail, opening bomb bay doors for fore and aft bomb bays, bomb load, working ailerons, wing flaps, elevators and rudder, rotating propellers and full landing gear. Molded in gloss silver, black and clear. Includes factory glue tube. Inside, the model is factory new - all the parts and decals are still in the factory sealed clear bags. The decals are flat and in 'Very good++' condition with yellowing being the only flaw and the instructions in 'very good+' condition with age foxing and slight yellowing as the only flaws. Sanwa was one of Japan's earliest post-WWII kit producers, making model kits in the 1950s; some sources say 1955. Kits were marketed under Sanwa and Tokyo Plamo, with the general consensus being the the later logo came out around 1960 or later. Production ended in 1964, making all Sanwa kits rare and collectible. The entire line was extensive. It included very small scale tanks (some that were motorized), battleships in three scales with the larger ones motorized with dual prop drive, slot cars, civil sport boats and an electric outboard, a full line of hand gun models that actually shot plastic bullets, two fighter groups and bomber groups (probably Monogram), several different lines of scale aircraft, missile kits, scale (static) car models of early Japanese automobiles, at least 7 flying model aircraft that had electric and rubber motors, a 'Super Control Stand' P-51 that moved with a joystick and had an electric propeller and sound unit, two different lighthouses and a windmill, an air cushion boat, motor cycles, a diving submarine (electric) and a working (rubber band) George Washington Class SSBN and even a garden tractor with an electric motor. Just before going out of business, Sanwa issued some kits in conjunction with the 1964 Tokyo Olympic games - these kits even included a copy of an Olympic medal.
Adams Thor Missile at White Sands with Launch Pad, 1/87, K162-98
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG++
$275
Rare kit dated 1958. Features a well detailed Thor missile, complete launching tower and ground crew of three. Molded in gloss white and medium gloss gray. Decals and instructions are in amazing 'excellent+' condition. Never started and inventoried 100% complete with all parts, decals and instructions. The box has great color and gloss, four solid corners, no fading, stains or repairs. It would grade higher but it has general wear as shown.
Trumpeter Wellington Mk. IC - RAF No. 75 Sqn Norfolk 1941 / No. 40 Sqn Malta 1941, 1/48, 02808
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed Exc
$89
Still factory sealed. Large, highly detailed model from all new molds. Features recessed panel lines, complete cockpit and full interior and inside 'basket weave' framing, excellent bomb bay with bomb load, optional position bay doors and much more. With a paint guide and decals for both aircraft listed.
Tamiya Flakpanzer IV Wirbelwind - Geramn Quad 20mm, 1/35, 35233
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed VG
$34
Still factory sealed. Very highly detailed armor model
Kirin Lion Of Babylon Iraqi Republican Guard T-72M1 - (T72 T72m1), 1/35, 28001
Resin Model Kit, Box Condition: VG
$44
Highly detailed with 448 parts and individual track links. Never started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions.
Revell Midnight Cowboy - Custom Chevy Wrecker - (Chevrolet Truck), 1/25, H1383
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed NM
$69
Still factory sealed but the seal has split. Rare kit from 1978 that is very nicely detailed. Features excellent chassis, suspension & exhaust, complete engine, forward tilting body, custom chrome 'Big Truck' grill shell and bumper, detailed interior and CB radio, chrome running boards, chrome simulated blower fins, wrecker bed with custom equipment, emergency lights, 2 GI cans, towing wheels, floor jack and mud flaps, Chevy cab with 5 clearance lights and two chrome air horns and more.
Aurora Aurora ATLANTIS Merchant Raider Factory Model, 1/456
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: No Box
$1400
In the 1950s and early 1960s the major model manufacturers would create factory-built and painted display models. These were intended for hobby shops to help stimulate sales. These were disposable items that were produced in very low numbers, so they are very rare today. Here is one of the rarest of the rare: The 'Rattlesnake of the Ocean' Merchant Sea Raider Atlantis factory build up by Aurora. The unbuilt kit is among the most valuable and rare Aurora single kits, making the factory built display much more so. This one is in excellent original condition. The painting is 1950s professional quality as is the gluing. The glue has held up well and all parts of the ship are very solid. The ship is very clean. The original paint is almost flawless with some light scratches on the port side. The 'ATLANTIS' decals are perfect. The stack 'K' starboard decal is mint; the port one is missing 2mm of the white top on one leg of the 'K'. The factory cardboard wood-tone base is 100% intact with typical corner splits on the bends and edge wear. The removable covers display is mint with all 10 gun/hanger covers present. The kit is now 100% complete. It was missing 4 small parts which I am providing. I took them from an original Atlantis kit, so they are 100% correct. (they are the propeller, 'Y' rear crane, rear flag and rudder) Overall, this is an excellent and rare investment piece for the advanced Aurora collector. Shipping insurance required. From modeler Stephen Payne: Recommend that the builder or collector of this kit add the following books to their collection-The German Raider Atlantis by Captain Bernhard Rogge & Wolfgang Frank & Sea Raider Atlantis, Story of a German Surface Raider by Ulrich Mohr & A.V. Sellwood. The first book is by the ATLANTIS commander, Kapitan zur See Bernhard Rogge. He oversaw the transformation and outfitting in Bremen and captained the ship during her 602 day operational voyager which sank or captured 22 ships totaling 144,384 t (142,104 long tons). Rogge also was one of the few German officers of flag rank who was not arrested by the Allies after the war due to the way he had exercised his command of Atlantis. Captain J. Armstrong White, captain of the British CITY OF BAGHDAD, which Atlantis sank in July 1941, stated, "His treatment of prisoners left respect, instead of hatred."The second book is by the ATLANTIS First Officer, Ulrich Moher. Both books read much the same as the events related are the same, but it is interesting to see these events from the two perspectives. Captain White (see above) wrote the foreword to Atlantis, the Story of a German Surface Raider, written by U. Mohr & A. V. Sellwood.The German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis (HSK 2), known to the Kriegsmarine as Schiff 16 (SHIP 16) and to the Royal Navy as Raider-C, was a converted merchant vessel to German Hilfskreuzer (auxiliary cruiser) used for commerce raiding. Commerce raiders did not seek to engage warships, but rather attack enemy merchant shipping; the measures of success are tonnage destroyed (or captured) and time spent "at large" holding up enemy resources. Atlantis had the longest raiding career of any German commerce raider in either world war.
Revell Starburst Mobile - For 15 Aircraft Models, S-8180
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good+
$115
Rare. You have seen this item on the old Revell instructions and box side advertisements. This is the Starburst Model-Holding Mobile made from plastic and metal, the ultimate display accessory for your built up Revell kits. The mobile has not been started and is complete with center ball, grease pencil, eye-screw, all arms and rubber arm cups.