Matchbox HMS Ariadne - Abdiel Class Minelayer, 1/700, PK61
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
$24
From 1976. This waterline kit features detailed hull with mine doors, revolving gun turrets, detailed superstructure and more. Includes color painting guide. Never started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes instructions.
Airfix Handley Page HP-42 Heracles, 1/144, 03172
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
$69
Special Edition limited release from 1993 and a beautifully molded kit of one of the classic airliners of the 1930s. The kit has never been started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions. 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.
Trumpeter Grumman F9F-2 Panther - Plus Teknics Down And Dirty Conversion Set, 1/48, 02832
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
$46
This model includes Teknics #TK48089 Down & Dirty resin conversion set for extended flaps and deployed trailing edge wing flaps. Designed to work with straights or folded wings; never used and complete with all parts and instruction and designed for this exact kit. The actual model is finely molded with all recessed detail, excellent cockpit and gear wells, detailed nose gun package, optional position canopy and speed brakes, separately molded wing flaps, wing bomb and missile loads, optional folded or 'flight' position wings and decals for VF-112 or VF-781. The kit has never been started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions.
Hobby Boss FM-2 Wildcat - (F4F), 1/48, 80330
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG
$32
Very well molded with all fine, recessed panel lines, excellent cockpit, superb gear well/firewall detail, optional position canopy, wing mounted drop tanks and decals for VC-36 from USS Core (CVE-13) and VC-10 USS Gambier Bay Oct 1944. The kit has never been started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions.
Hobby Boss F4F-4 Wildcat - VMF-223 Guadalcanal 1942 Captain Marian E Carl - (F4F F4F4), 1/48, 80328
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
$28
Very well molded with all fine, recessed panel lines, excellent cockpit, superb gear well/firewall detail, optional position canopy, wing mounted drop tanks and decals for the aircraft listed with a full color 3 view painting guide. Never started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions.
Eduard Bf-110E, 1/48, 8403
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc+
$38
Extremely well detailed inside and out with 340 parts. The kit has never been started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions.
Eduard Airacobra Mk.I Dual Combo - Bell P-39, 1/48, 1120
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good
$68
Rare Dual Combo issue from 2006 includes both highly detailed kits with recessed panel lines, extensive PE parts, full mask set, nose weights and more. Includes markings for several different aircraft. The kit has never been started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions.
Revell Sikorsky UH-34D - US Marines 'Hunt Club 1' Mercury Recovery and Bu#148772, 1/48, 85-5323
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed NM
$34
Still factory sealed. The kit is well detailed. Features recessed panel lines, full cockpit, cargo section with bench seats, moving main and tail rotors, cable winch and load hood and more. Decals for both US Marines helicopters including the famous one that could not retrieve the water-filled Mercury Capsule on 7-21-61.
Tamiya JS-2 Model 1944 ChKZ - Russian Heavy Tank With PE Parts - USSR / Czech / Polish, 1/35, 35289
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed Exc+
$52
Still factory sealed. Very well detailed and includes Tamiya-supplied PE details.
AHM Ki-61 Hien Tony, 1/87, SK-8
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed VG++
$32
Still factory sealed and the seal has shrunk and drawn the box top slightly concave. HO scale kit is very nicely molded and detailed with full color decals, movable control surfaces, colorful decals and full color painting guide.
Revell 1903 Cadillac Highway Pioneers, 1/32, H35-79
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG++
$44
1960 issue hardbox with full artwork; Highway Pioneers prior to this year simply had generic artwork and an ink stamped name on the box ends was the only way to identify the contents. This kit has never been started. All parts are still sealed in the factory bag. Includes instructions. The box would rate much higher than 'very good++' but there is age foxing on some of the box side panels. These kits have a fascinating history. Hobbies were nothing new to America in the 1930s/40s, but they were not mainstream and never made the top 10 list of boys activities. Spurred on by the nation-wide aviation craze in the 1920s, many became modelers and built flying or static wooden models of airplanes, ships, trains, automotive and other subjects. Basic kits existed, but many of these models were built from scratch, which demanded a high talent level developed from years of experience. That changed in the early 1950s when the Gowland & Gowland/Revell Highway Pioneers became the sales sensation of the year. Demand was so great that the factories could not keep up and almost overnight 'model building' was mainstream. The phenomenon of the 'Highway Pioneers' kits was a significant force in proving that model building as a hobby could have mass appeal, provided that the kits were easy enough to build and finish. These 1/32 scale vehicles fit the bill: they could be built in an hour after dinner and looked much like the real cars. The success of the Highway Pioneers lead to the production of other subjects in plastic and the effect was revolutionary. By the late 1950s, model building was the #1 past time of American boys...and many adult males too!
Airfix DC-9-30 KLM - (DC-9 30), 1/144, 03176-5
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good
$29
Dash 30 version of the venerable short-haul transport. Features optional position boarding and baggage doors, optional position landing gear, optional position rear airstair door, clear windows and KLM decals. Never started. Inventoried 100% complete with all parts, decals and instructions.
Testors Airspeed 51 Horsa Mk I, 1/72, 862
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good-
$34
Well detailed and finely molded model from 1979 features 129 pieces, complete cockpit and full interior with floor and benches, optional position boarding doors and stairs and more. Never started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions. Horsas were perhaps the most advanced gliders built during WWII. They had full instrumentation, power operated flaps and brakes, a powered device for jettisoning the landing gear upon touchdown. The Horsa MkI carrier troops while the MkII carried vehicles which loaded through the swing nose and unloaded from an explosively-released rear fuselage after landing. Gliders carried in 20% of the reinforcements and supplies for D-Day, and most were Horsas. They also saw action against the German Heavy Water (Atomic Bomb) plants in Norway and targets in Sicily, Arnhem and the Rhine.
Novo Bristol 138A - (ex Frog), 1/72, F165
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
$32
From original Frog molds and very cleanly molded. The kit has never been started. It has been inventoried with all plastic parts and and instructions present. NOTE: missing decals. On the 28th of September, 1936, the Bristol 138/A climbed to an altitude of 49,967 feet to establish a new world altitude record. In 1937 it climbed to 53,967 feet where the windscreen cracked. The pilot was saved by the pressure suit he was wearing.
Dragon USS Hewitt DDG-966 Destroyer - Spruance Class - Also With Decals For Elliott / Spruance / Peterson / Engersoll, 1/350, 1009
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good
$59
Very highly detailed full-hull model that includes hull numbers & stern names for all five ships listed. Never started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions.
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.
Tamiya German Sd.Kfz.250/3 Greif - With General Rommel And 11 Soldiers, 1/35, MM213A
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed VG++
$44
Still factory sealed. Very highly detailed armor model includes decals for Rommel's half track, eleven soldiers and General Rommel figure.
Revell USS Constitution Old Ironsides With Sails, 1/96, H398-1500
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG+
$189
Rare early issue from 1966 with the finest mold quality. This issue has the factory-painted copper hull below the waterline in amazing 'near mint' condition. Very large and highly detailed model of the famous American Frigate. Features full deck and much interior detail (gun deck & captain's quarters), all standing and running rigging line and thread, pre-formed ratlines, full instructions for assembly and all rigging and optional billowing sails. Never started. All the parts that Revell had factory sealed are still sealed in factory bags. The few large parts (the hull, ratlines and sails) that were never sealed are complete. Includes flags, preformed ratlines, standing and running rigging diagrams, sails and all instructions. Vacuform sails are in 'average' condition.
Strombecker Boeing B-29 Superfortress, 1/72, C-250
Wood Model Kit, Box Condition: Good-
$169
Rare. From the 1930s through the 1950s Strombecker produced the world's finest highly prefabricated hardwood model kits. The B-29 is one of Strombecker's flagship models. Features completely carved to final shape fuselage, wings with airfoil, four engine nacelles, tail feathers, turrets, gun sighting blisters, wing flaps and more, four plastic propellers, tricycle landing gear with all gear doors, weighted nose, a very large, full color extensive decal sheet and sealed envelopes of glue & wood filler. Includes the excellent, large format detailed instructions and even the detailed B-29 booklet. Never started. Inventoried and NOTE: missing one part, nose weight. Otherwise includes all other parts and paperwork. The decals were once stuck to the instructions so there are a few small areas where instruction paper is still stuck to the decals. I would grade the decals as 'good.'
Bandai German Infantry No.1, 1/48, 8242-125
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good
$22
Very highly detailed. Includes one tree with four fully positionable troops and 6 personal accessories each (total of 24) and a second tree full of a very large variety of weapons. The kit has never been started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes instructions.