Heller F-84F Recon Thunderstreak - US Air Force / Luftwaffe / Belgian Air Force, 1/48, 80419
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG+
$36
Large scale (1/48) model features fine raised panel detail, recessed control surfaces, good cockpit and gear well detail, drop tanks, pilot figure and more. Includes a very large decal sheet for a very colorful USAF version, one Belgian and one Luftwaffe aircraft. Never started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions. The kit Heller put in this issue is an F-84F. Only the clear camera lenses are included for the RF-84 - not a different fuselage.
Revell Lockheed F-104C and F-104G Starfighter - USAF or Luftwaffe, 1/48, H236
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed Exc+
$39
Still factory sealed. 1977 issue. Has all parts and decals for both versions. Includes highly detailed cockpit with 3-D instrument panel, M-61 Vulcan cannon with optional position hatch, optional position landing gear, and more.
Life-Like Gloster Gladiator, 1/48, 09607
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
$24
From Ex-Pyro molds. Nicely molded. Includes cockpit, positionable pilot figure and molded in realistic fabric surfaces. Never started. Factory sealed bag or inventoried 100% complete with all parts, decals and instructions.
Quality Craft Models D&RGW Narrow Gauge Caboose HOn3 - HO Scale Craftsman Kit, 1/87, 1001
Wood and Metal Model Kit, Box Condition: Good+
$24
Highly detailed and builds a very accurate prototype. Features factory cut, milled and scored hardwood parts, a large number of cast metal details, brass ladder, metal stock as required, full decals and complete instructions. Never started. The small parts are still in the factory sealed bag; the parts that were larger and never sealed have been inventoried complete. Long after manufacturers turned to plastic ready-to-run rolling stock, Quality Craft continued to produce high quality models you could build. Headquartered in Northumberland, PA, they gave the craftsman an opportunity to build a state-of-art kit and show their skill.
Hawk Grumman F9F-3KD Drone Panther - GMSRon Two - (F9F3KD), 1/48, 502-130
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good++
$39
Softbox issue dated 1965 with Tom Morgan box art. Unique target drone issue is molded in gloss yellow and clear with special drone decal markings from Navy Guided Missile Service Squadron Two (GMSRon Two). Never started. Inventoried 100% complete with all parts, decals and instructions.
Revell 1910 Cadillac Limousine Factory Display - Built Up With Base - Highway Pioneers, 1/32
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good++
$59
This is a Revell-factory built display built for hobby shop promotional use around 1954/55. The intention was simple- if hobby shops would purchase and show these attractively built displays, potential buyers would see them and immediately purchase the kit. This probably worked well; but the hitch was that these displays were expensive for the 1950s, so few hobby shops could afford them. There were other difficulties too. Once in public, there was heavy attrition; parts easily broke, and when the new kits came out next year, they were thrown away to make room for more. Which makes condition of this one even more exceptional. The actual model is very neatly built and Revell factory airbrushed. You can always tell the Revell-built models by the airbrushing and the way the parts were masked. The actual car is complete, nothing is broken and there are no repairs. Even the base is in very good condition; however the clear cover is missing and the car could use a cleaning. Before the 1950s 'model building' never made the top 10 list of boy's activities. Hobbies were nothing new to America in the 1930s/40s, but they were not mainstream. Shortly after the turn of the century, many dedicated modelers built flying or static airplanes, ship, train, automotive or other subjects. Basic kits existed, but the majority of these models were built from scratch, which demanded a high talent level developed from years of experience. That changed in the early 1950s. The phenomenon of the Revell/Gowland & Gowland 'Highway Pioneers' car 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 could be built in an hour after dinner and looked much like the real car. The Highway Pioneers series lead to the production of other subjects in plastic and the effect was revolutionary. By the early 1960s, model building was the #1 past time of American boys.
Scientific Sovereign of the Seas - 23.75 Inch Long Wooden Ship Model, 165-1695
Wood and Metal Model Kit, Box Condition: Good+
$139
Excellent, large scale model measures 23.75 inches long when assembled. Includes precarved wood hull, extensive balsawood printed part sheets, hardwood masts & stock, tapered hardwood yards, standing and running rigging material, hardwood base and pedestals, colorful decal sheet, name plate, extensive metal detail castings (lifeboats, ladders, anchors, skylight, capstan, pump wheels, pump, wheel, bitts, windlass, etc), full sized plans, rigging instructions, superb full size plans with numerous drawings & detailed text instructions and more. The kit has never been started. All of the metal fittings are still in the factory sealed bags. The parts that were never factory sealed have been inventoried complete along with the decal sheet and instructions/large plans all in 'very good' condition. Please note that this the early issue and Scientific did not furnish sails or sail running rigging instructions with it.. Scientific Model Airplane Company was founded by John D. Frisoli of Newark, N.J. He started the business in a 12 square foot store in the 1940s. By 1952 John had sales of plane, boat & race car kits and accessories totaling about $200,000 annually.
Monogram F-84G Thunderjet Pro Modeler, 1/48, 85-5951
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG++
$34
From 1999 and from completely new molds. High quality kit features a large, colorful decal sheet, many photoetched parts, detailed wheel wells and cockpit, optional position speed brake and canopy, iron bombs, nuclear bomb (SAC version), rockets, optional position wing flaps, boarding ladder and standing pilot figure. Includes decals for 'Night Take Off' piloted by Col. Charles Jordan, Commander, 58th Fighter bomber Wing, Korea, 1952 or 31st Fighter Escort Wing, SAC Command, Nouassuer Air Base, French Morocco during Operation Long Stride (August 1953). The kit has never been started. Internal factory sealed bags including decals and instructions.
Monogram F-15 Eagle, 1/48, 5801
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good
$32
1979 large 1/48 scale issue and a quality Monogram kit with very good detail, fit and finish. Features very highly detailed cockpit, detailed gear wells and engine air inlets, drop tanks, ECM pod, Sidewinder and Sparrow missiles, optional position canopy, speed brake and pilots boarding step, detailed radar and optional position radome and an excellent decal sheet for three aircraft (1st TFW Langley AFB / 33rd TFW Elgin AFB / 32nd TFW The Netherlands). Never started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions.
Hasegawa USS Missouri BB63 Battleship Motorized, 1/450, A-9
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good+
$64
From the 1970s/early 80s. Measures 23.75 inches long and part of the older Hasegawa 1/450 scale series that was designed for water operation. Includes all hardware and even includes the electric motor. Can be easily converted to remote control. Features one piece hull, movable gun turrets, full secondary and AA armament, floatplane and more. Never started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes instructions.
Bluejacket Smuggler 1877 Gloucester Schooner - 33 Inch Long Wooden Ship Model - O Scale, 1/48, 1012
Wood and Metal Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
$295
A superb model that sells new for $340. Of all aspects of New England fishing in the late 19th century, none was more distinctive than the mackerel purse-seine fishery with it's specialized gear, exacting techniques and fast, handsome schoolers built specifically for this seasonal work. Smuggler, with her extreme clipper hull, was one of the most beautiful of them all. This is a wood and metal model of the highest quality. When assembled, it measures 33 inches long and 25.5 inches high. Features a pre-carved basswood hull, laser cut hardwood parts, finely cast Britannia pewter fittings, all materials needed for deckhouses, spars and rigging material as well as three sheets of superb full-size plans. The kit has never been started. All parts are still in the factory sealed internal bags and includes plans (in mint condition) and the large instruction book (which is slightly used, it looks to have been studied). NOTE: unless you specify otherwise, this kit will ship in the original (very sturdy) model box wrapped in brown paper. If you specify, I will be glad to pack it inside a box but extra shipping will apply.
Ray Hawker Typhoon, 1/43
Wood Model Kit, Box Condition: Good
$26
Rare kit, probably from the late 1940s but the actual date is not known. Large scale model that is solid wood. Features 'Ray-Ring' fuselage, a novel and useful feature to make fuselage finishing easier. Instead of using template to shape the fuselage, the templates have already been used and at those locations the fuselage is already carved to final shape! You simply carve in between the pre-carved section until they match - a very nice idea. Also includes factory cut wings, fully finished wheels, clear vacuform canopy (known as the 'Ray-Closure') in excellent condition and not yellowed, very high quality printwood, full color insignia, very nice full size plans including building instructions. The kit has never been started and is complete. Ray Aircraft Products Co. was located in West Chester Pennsylvania. They mention this is the '5nd of the RAY SOLID MODELS'. The Hellcat was #2. Little else is known.
Revell Martin Mariner PBM-5 - Lodela Issue, 1/118, H175
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed VG+
$48
Still factory sealed. Lodela issue from the same molds as the well-detailed 1950s 'S' kit. Ideal builder. Features rotating turrets, elevating guns, optional position crew doors and rotating props. Although from old molds, this builds into a nice model.
Revell Boeing E-3A AWACS Sentry - USAF or NATO, 1/139, 4422
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed VG
$26
Still factory sealed. 1982 issue. Very close to 1/144 scale. This is Revell's classic 707 modified into the airborne command post. Features optional position landing gear and decals for USA or NATO.
Mach Dzik P52 Polish Navy (U-Class) Submarine, 1/400, 02
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed VG
$12
Still factory sealed but the seal has drawn the box top concave. Dzik ("Wild Boar") and her sister Solol ("Falcon" were the first submarines delivered to the Polish Navy once WWII began. By February of 1941 Sokol was patrolling the Bay of Biscay and Dzik followed shortly after delivery on October 11, 1942. Both of these ships achieved significant success in the Mediterranean and Aegean Seas, where they destroyed several enemy ships. Both subs outlasted the war and were returned to England. Dzik was then lent to the Danish Navy in 1946. Her active service ended in 1957 and she was broken up in 1958. Very nicely molded and detailed but certainly not a 'state of the art' Tamiya style kit. Features full hull with propellers and rudder, display stand, color paint guide on the back of the box with rigging diagram and full decals with flags.
Revell Honest John Missile with Mobile Carrier - And Truck, 1/48, H1821-169
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: NM
$58
1996 reissue of the classic 1958 kit. Missile can be disassembled put into individual crates on the trailer. Trailer unhitches from cab and all 18 wheels rotate. The trailer has a detailed underside and the truck features an opening hood with detailed engine and cab interior. Crew of 2 included. The kit has never been started. Internal factory sealed bags including decals and instructions.
MPC 1973 Pontiac Firebird - Stock / Buddy Baker's Grand Am Track Race Car / Street Machine, 1/25, 1-7315-225
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed Exc
$229
Still factory sealed but the seal has shrunk and drawn the box top slightly concave as shown in the photo. Very rare first & only issue and even harder to find in this condition. Can be built as one of three versions and includes numerous custom and accessory options. Please note this kit must be shipped insured.
Hasegawa British Aerospce Sea Harrier FRS Mk.1 - Royal Navy RNAS Yeovilton / No. 801NAS HMS Invincible / No.899 NAS HMS Hermes 1982 / No.809 NAS HMS Illustrious 1982, 1/72, 606
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: NM
$20
From excellent, newer molds and features all fine recessed panel lines, 76 pieces, good cockpit detail, optional position canopy, pilot figure, boarding ladder, refueling probe, drop tanks, AIM-9L Sidewinders, 1000 lb bombs, Sea Eagle ASM, optional position air brake and more. With decals for all the aircraft listed. Never started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions.
Fujimi TWO D4Y3 Type 33 Suisei Judy - Carrier Dive Bomber - 601 Kokutai / 2nd Battle of the Philippine Sea, 1/72, 22006
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: NM
$32
SALE!! Includes two models in one box. Never started. Both kits have been inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions. This model dates from when Fujimi made the finest models in the world. Features all fine recessed panel lines, gear well and cockpit detail and optional bomb and drop tank loads. Decals represent an aircraft from the 601st group which was partially equipped with the new Judy and took part in the 2nd Battle of the Philippine Sea.
Aurora German Gotha G-V Bomber - Abare Box / 1970s Kit With 1958 Ground And Mechanics Included, 1/48, 126-198
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc+++
$69
Ideal 'Classic Builder.' NOTE: this is a 1970s revised molds Aurora Gotha with 1958 ground base and ground crew in a Ross Abare 1970s issue box. The kit is the improved version which is a superior kit to the original release. So you can built it like the original issue, I have included an original ground base and ground crew (because the 1970s issue did not contain those). Never started and inventoried 100% complete with all parts, decals and instructions.