Aurora Breguet 14, 1/48, 141-98
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed NM++
$84
Still factory sealed and in investment-grade "Near Mint++" condition. this kit is part of one of the earliest lines of US made plastic aircraft models, the 1/48 WWI series by Aurora. It began in 1955 and expanded through the 1960s. It was so popular that many were still selling at Aurora's demise in 1976 and Monogram even reissued some of them after purchasing the Aurora molds.
Testors XR-7 Thunder Dart, 1/72, 567
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
$74
Well molded and nicely detailed kit. Rare concept model from the Aurora (or Senior Citizen) Program. The ultimate Mach 7 Pulse Wave Detonation-Engined marvel that has been 'heard' flying around Groom Lake and leaving 'Donuts on a Rope' contrails. The kit has never been started. It either has all the parts still sealed in the factory bags or it has been inventoried complete with all parts present. Includes decals and instructions.
YMC Sikorsky H-21 Workhorse, 1/210, 44
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good+
$89
Very rare, late 1950/early 1960s Japanese kit with very collectible box art. This small scale kit features recessed surface detail, clear cockpit 'bubble', full landing gear and complete decals for the colorful box art helicopter. Never started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions. The instructions are on the back of the box.
Academy Grumman TBF-1 Avenger - USN, 1/72, 1651
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
$19
From 1987. A nicely molded kit that features all fine recessed panel lines, detailed cockpit, optional position landing gear and rotating turret with elevating gun. Never started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions.
LS Nakajima Ki-43-I Hayabusa Oscar, 1/75, 1
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good+
$32
Rare, early LS kit in a high gloss box top with very collectible artwork. Most likely from the early 1960s. Even at this early date, you can see why LS became legendary for quality. Features well molded parts with all fine recessed panel lines, retracting landing gear, opening piece canopy, movable ailerons, rudder and elevator and two bombs. Never started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions. Some of the LS molds are still used today by Hasegawa, testifying to their detail and accuracy.
Airfix HP-42 Heracles - Imperial Airways - Type Three Issue, 1/144, SK502
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good
$64
From the 1960s and a beautifully detailed kit of one of the classic airliners of the 1930s. Imperial Airways equipped these aircraft with deluxe interiors and provided full service. Customers were thoroughly pampered and had superb views of the ground from only a few thousand feet. The kit has never been started. Inventoried and NOTE: missing one small exhaust pipe (easily made with copper wire). Otherwise complete with all other parts, decals and instructions present.
Accurate Miniatures Grumman F3F-1 - (F3F1) US Navy, 1/48, 3413
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed Exc++
$42
Still factory sealed. Very highly detailed kit with over 75 parts. Features excellent part quality, recessed panel lines, weighted or normal tires, photoetched rigging, detailed cockpit and engine and more.
Classic Airframes Arado Ar-68 E/F - Luftwaffe III./JG 132 Juterbog-Damm Autumn 1938 / 10(N)/JG53 1939-40 / 10(N)/JG53 1939, 1/48, 453
Multimedia Model Kit, Box Condition: VG++
$34
Very well molded and detailed kit with main injection molded parts, full resin cockpit and other resin details. Includes optional parts for both E and F variants and decals for the three aircraft listed. The kit has never been started. Internal factory sealed bag including decals and instructions.
ESCI Lockheed Vega Winnie Mae or US Army Y1C-12, 1/48, 4100
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good
$32
Features fair cockpit detail, clear cabin windows, good engine detail and a large, superb decal sheet for Wiley Post's Winnie Mae (1933) and the Lockheed Y1C-12 Vega C/N 158 of the 8th Pursuit Group, 35th Pursuit Squadron Langley Field 1932. Never started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions.
Tamiya Army Nakajima Type-2 Fighter Ki-44 Shoki Motorized, 1/50, 5
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG+
$44
Very early Tamiya kit with a high-gloss box top and very collectible artwork. Features very good quality for that time with all recessed panel lines, working flaps, three piece canopy and retractable landing gear. The kit is engineered to be motorized and includes all hardware to do so, but Tamiya did not include the motor with the model. Never started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions. The factory glue is present also.
Frog JU-87G Stuka Red Series, 1/72, F195
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG
$20
Very nicely molded kit with very fine raised panel detail. Kit includes cockpit and crew of two, two underwing anti-tank cannon and decals for either Hungarian Air Force 102/1 Dive Bomber Sq or Stab/Stukageschwader 2 Hans Rudel with 1000 Tanks Destroyed. Inventoried 100% complete with all parts decals and instructions. Frog is considered the father of injection molded model kits. The Lines Brothers opened Frog in 1932, capitalizing on the fever caused by Lindberg's solo transatlantic flight. Almost overnight the western populations became 'Air-Minded', and anything aviation was in high demand. Frog created a quality line of stick and tissue rubber powered aircraft and gliders as well as innovative ready-to-fly rubber powered aircraft that required no assembly. The box even contained a built-in rubber motor winder and fuselage holder. Model airplane flight competitions were popular in Great Britain, and one category was 'Rise Off the Ground', or ROG. By changing this to 'Flies Right Off the Ground', the FROG name was born. In 1936 Frog created a line of injection molded plastic models, the first such kit line in the world (Hawk sold a line of injection molded aircraft models in 1934 but they were factory assembled and painted). Named 'Penguin' after the bird that does not fly, the kits were innovative beyond the means of production. At a time when models were simply built by wingspan, the Penguin line was a constant 1/72 scale. Furthermore, a large 1/72 Short S.30 Empire class flying boat contained a full interior and lights! A line of accessories such as AA guns, tractors, hanger, ambulance, sound locator, searchlights and lighting kits were quickly added to the line. WWII caused a pause in production. After the war the box color changed from silver to green, and Penguin kits were also marketed in the USA. Production ended in 1950. Frog quickly expanded and released the Red, Orange, Black, Green, Gold Token, Spin and Comet series as well as Trail Blazers and several others. It is noteworthy that while most manufacturers in the 1940s/50 were making toy-like models, Frog attempted to make very realistic models. For example, 'detailing' kits with excessively large rivets was once very popular. Frog ignored this trend and continued to mold aircraft with fine panel lines and no rivets. As a result, Frog kits can be built into very realistic replicas. Production ended in the late 1970s, but Frog molds are still in use around the world.
Matchbox Focke-Wulf FW-190 - 111th Group JG 51 Russia or SG1 Crimea 1943, 1/72, PK-51
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
$24
Dated 1989 and includes decals for the aircraft involved in the first FW-190 sortie, which resulted in 7 PE-2s being destroyed. Optional parts and decals are also included to make a fighter bomber from SG.1 in Crimea, Russia in 1943. Never started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions.
Heller Amiot 143 Bomber, 1/72, 390
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG++
$36
Late 1960s/early 1970s issue that is very nicely molded and detailed. Never started. The parts and the paperwork are still in the internal factory sealed bags; literally all of the contents are sealed. The Amiot 143 design was first flown in 1934 and was ordered into series production with the first deliveries in August of 1935. A very capable aircraft for it's day, it was obsolete but still in service with 5 bombing groups when WWII broke out. Brave air crews attacked not only night targets in Germany proper but made daylight raids on bridges at the Sedan during the Blitz.
Airfix H.S. Trident 1C Sky King - British Airways, 1/144, 03174-9
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good
$32
Type Four logo issue from 1976. Nicely molded featuring clear cabin and cockpit windows, optional position doors for the cabin baggage holds, optional position landing gear and even mobile boarding stairs. Includes decals for four different British Airways aircraft G-ARPC / G-ARPD / G-ARPN and G-ARPR. Never started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions.
Airfix Supermarine Spitfire Mk.I Or Mk.IIa - Mk.I RAF Duxford No.19(F) Squadron August 1938 / Mk.IIa RAF Ivesley No.118 Sq A Flight May 1941, 1/48, 05115
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good
$22
Features 64 pieces, all fine recessed surface detail, very good cockpit, pilot figure, optional position cockpit door and canopy, enclosed and detailed landing gear bays, optional parts for MkI or MKIIa variants including canopy, separately molded trailing edge wing flaps and more. Includes a full color paint guide and decals for a Mk.I RAF No. 19 (F) Sq Duxford 1938 and a Mk.IIA No.118 Sq "A" Flight RAF Ivesley 1941. Never started. The parts are either still in the internal factory sealed bags or inventoried complete. Includes decals and instructions.
Revell Focke-Wulf Fw-190 D-9 Dora - (FW190D9), 1/32, 4556
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good+
$36
From 1990. Large 1/32 scale issue. Features full cockpit, removable cowl to show Jumo engine, sliding canopy, pilot figure and moving wheels and propeller. The kit has never been started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions.
Revell Convair R3Y-2 Tradewind - 'S' Issue - (R3Y2), 1/168, H238-98
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG
$54
First issue from 1956. Very colorful 'S' hardbox with great artwork. This model is very well molded for that time and features all recessed panel lines, opening front cargo door, rotating counter-rotating propellers and more. Molded in dark sea blue and includes the famous clear Revell 'Globe' display stand. Never started. It has been inventoried and NOTE: missing one piece, the stub nose on the very front of the forward cargo door. Otherwise complete with all other parts and includes decals and instructions. In 1945 the US Navy asked Convair to develop a large flying boat based on the new World War II technology and the developing turbo-prop engines. Convair's proposal was the Model 117. high-wing flying boat with Allison T40 engines driving six-bladed contra-rotating propellers. The design has a slender body, high-mounted high lift wing and fixed floats. The Navy was impressed enough to order two prototypes in May of 1946. The first prototype was designated XP5Y-1 and first flew off San Diego on April 18, 1950. In August the aircraft set a turboprop endurance record of eight hours six minutes. Although impressed with the design, the Navy decided not to build the patrol version and decided to make her into a passenger and cargo aircraft. A total of eleven aircraft were built. The first two prototypes built were in P5Y configuration, armed with 8,000 lb (3,600 kg) of munitions (bombs, mines, depth charges, torpedoes) and five pairs of 20 mm cannon in fore and aft side emplacements and a tail turret. The next five were built as R3Y-1 aircraft, intended for troop transport and inflight tanker service. The final six were built as the R3Y-2 variant with a upward-hinged nose and high cockpit for heavy roll-on-roll-off transport duties. In this way it was thought the design would function as a 'Flying LST.' In practice, it was discovered that it was almost impossible for the pilots to hold the aircraft nose-on to the beach while it was unloaded. These were subsequently converted into inflight refueling tankers. However, they had a short life because of the unsolvable reliability problems that plagued the Allison T40 turboprop engines. That fate befell most of the T40-powered aircraft, like the Douglas A2D Skyshark.
Delta Campini Caproni - With Book, 1/72
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good++
$42
Includes well produced and illustrated Campini Caproni paperback history book. The Campini Caproni was a early jet with a unique propulsion system. A regular piston engine turned the compressor stages. The compressed air was mixed with fuel in a combustion chamber behind the piston engine and ignited. Never started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions.
Eduard Heinkel He-280 Jumo 004, 1/48, 8050
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good+
$36
High quality kit that features 81 injection molded parts with very fine detail, canopy mask set, formed metal nose weight and decals with paint guide. The kit has never been started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions.
Airfix 1914 Dennis Fire Engine, 1/32, 06442-8
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good++
$42
Very well detailed model from 1979. Features a full rolling chassis just like the actual truck, detailed engine, exhaust, suspension and pump, detachable ladder cart and rigged, operating ladder, highly detailed truck body with accessories, four figures and more. The kit has never been started. Internal factory sealed bag including decals and instructions.