Nichimo Kugisho P1Y1 Ginga Type 11 'Frances' Bomber, 1/120
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG+
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Rare. Early 1960s Japanese kit with very collectible glossy-finish box art. Features rotating props and clear blue display stand. Molded in green, black, dark tan and blue tinted clear. The kit has never been started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions.
Delta Kits Royal Navy Resolution Class SSBN Submarine - Bagged, 1/350, DK3001
Multimedia Model Kit, Box Condition: VG+
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Excellent waterline-only model featuring vacuformed hull, resin sail, metal details and instructions with excellent full size plans. Never started and complete.
Pyro 1932 Lincoln KB Sport Convertible, 1/32, C342-125
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Fair
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1965 Pyro issue from original molds. In the early to mid 1960s the Pyro company chose many of it's 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 red 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.
Monogram Consolidated B-24J Liberator with Diorama Instructions and Squadron Canopy Set, 1/48, 5601
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good-
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Includes factory-sealed Squadron Crystal Clear Canopies #9571 B-24J designed for this kit. The actual model is the first issue from 1976. Includes tow tractor and desirable diorama instructions. Kit features extensive interior detail, rotating turrets, elevating guns, optional position side gun positions, full bomb bay with bomb load, steerable nose wheel, rotating props and optional position bomb bay doors. The kit has never been started. Inventoried with all parts present including decals and instructions but please NOTE: one machine gun barrel is broke and missing. It is easily replaced since it is a smooth cylinder of constant diameter. And NOTE: a very small chip of the rear underside right fuselage is broken off but present. It fits back well and is an easy repair. The original owner reinforced the upper and lower boxes by very neatly gluing heavy cardboard into the inside.
IMC 1963 Ford-Mercury Cougar II Concept Vignale, 1/25, 103-200
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG
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Rare, but NOTE: builder only, please read carefully. Nice kit with detailed engine and compartment, opening hood, retractable headlights, full interior, opening doors, tubular frame, pressure vent flap and more. The kit has not been started. NOTE: missing clear (windshield, rear and side windows). Otherwise inventoried with all other parts, decals and instructions. The roof 'stainless' color decal is flaking.
Revell BB-38 USS Pennsylvania - Sea Power and Master Modelers Club Issue, 1/426, H422-198
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: NM+
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The most desirable issue in investment-grade 'Near Mint+' condition inside and out. The box has factor-fresh color and gloss, no tape or tags and no marks from either, no missing or torn litho, no fading and no split or repaired corners. The only wear is very, very light, what you would expect from being put in the Revell shipping carton and then removed from it. 1961 Sea Power hardbox release which includes the rare Pennsylvania trading stamp ("mint" condition) and two trading cards depicting the B-29 Pacific Raiders art and F-106 Whip-Fly issue art (both "mint"). Inside, the kit is like new, with all parts still in the factory sealed bag and the instructions still in "mint" condition. The Pennsylvania was in dry-dock during the December 7th Pearl Harbor attack and survived with minimal damage. She was rebuilt and saw significant action in the Pacific in WWII, steaming over 150,000 miles from 1941 to 1945. It is thought that she may have fired more ammunition than any ship in history. She never once reported 'Not Ready' for any operation or need. After being used as a nuclear test ship at Bikini, she was towed to Kwajalein and sunk.
ITC Halibut SSGN 587 Cam-A-Matic Submarine - (Electric Powered Diving Motorized Regulus Sub), 1/175, 3660-998
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good
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From 1960. This model is the zenith of the ITC Design and Engineering Team, and maybe of all operational plastic model kits. It is not only rare but is considered the most complicated operating model ever produced. The large 24.75 inch submarine sails from the power of a large electric motor driving twin geared propellers. It changes headings, dives, surfaces, and a Regulus II missile comes out of the hanger and launches...all automatically. The engineering on this kit is fantastic and a major break-through for that time. The model worked, and did work well, but was certainly not a toy for inexperienced model builders. The high price ($9.98) and difficulties that youngsters had with assembly and operation made for a short production run. The fact the ITC left the model business for good shortly after releasing the kit contributed to the scarcity as well. The boxtop displays much better than the 'good' grade; I have graded it 'good' because the box has missing litho along the very bottom center, smaller missing areas on the corners and right side, general shelf wear and one closed split on two corners. I very carefully repaired the worse one correctly- from the inside with strips of cardstock and book binding glue. Inside, the kit is in excellent condition. It has never been started. All the parts have been inventoried 100% complete. The original bags are present but were open. The decals (stickers) are 'excellent' as are the instructions. The blue display cardboard is all present and in 'excellent' condition. NOTE: this kit must be shipped insured.
Renwal See-Thru SSBN 618 Thomas Jefferson Polaris Nuclear Submarine, 1/200, 653
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG
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Classic 1950s boxart at it's finest and the rarest of all the Renwal SSBNs. Large 24 inch long kit with clear right half that is hinged to open. The Jefferson is the only Renwal sub that has the clear hull half - all others have a gray hinged half. The clear hull half model has never been reissued. The clear half is in excellent condition and still wrapped in the protective factory paper. Heavily detailed interior and actual 'launching' Polaris missile from a spring loaded missile launch tube. This kit has never been started. All parts have been inventoried 100% complete including decals and instructions.
Sterling Hal Krier's Great Lakes Special - 24 inch Wingspan for R/C / Control Line / Freeflight, A24
Wood Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed NM
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Still factory sealed. Purchased new on April 19, 1967 at Bell's Models in Cleveland, OH. This kit is part of Sterling's expensive big-wingspan series that was designed for R/C and also includes numerous extra parts for control line operation. Can also be flown free-flight. Features large, full color decal sheet, high-grade die cut balsa, die cut plywood, vacuform plastic cowl with engine detail, wheel pants and pilot, clear canopy material, carved and painted wood main and tail wheels, finished wire landing gear, rubber motor and plastic prop, carved wooden thrust button, control line handle, firewall, elevator horn platform, metal hardware and pushrod wire, full size plans with instruction details and full instructions for conversion to RC or control line. Sterling was a famous manufacturer dating back to the 1930/40s flying model craze. Although they continued to produce kits for decades after the flying model slump following World War II, they eventually fell victim to the general lack of interest in modeling that occurred in the early 1980s. I always considered Sterling kits to be deluxe kits as they had the action features and included everything needed to complete the model.
Comet Ryan SC - 15 inch Wingspan Powered Flying Model, 3103
Wood Model Kit, Box Condition: Good+
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1980s issue. Kit features traditional stick and tissue construction, detailed full size plans, building instructions, hardware, wheels and canopy material (if required), tissue, rubber and propeller. The model has not been started. Inventoried 100% complete with all parts and instructions. 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.
Top Flite Republic P-47N Thunderbolt 27 Inch Wingspan Gas U-Control Model, S2
Wood Model Kit, Box Condition: VG+
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Superb kit from the late 1950s or very early 1960s. Recommended engines are .15 to .29. Features 'Superform' balsa shell that is perfectly formed to the exact shape of the fuselage. There are no blocks to carve and no planking required. Includes Jig-Time construction, precision die-cut grade A balsa wood, tapered leading edges, die-cut plywood formers, ribs, spar braces and other parts where additional strength is required, completely formed landing gear, clear, fully formed plastic canopy, rubber wheels, hardwood engine mounts, top grade silk-span, complete set of fuel-proof decals, full hardware (45 parts) and full size detailed plans with step-by-step instructions. The kit has never been started. Some parts are still in the factory sealed bags. The parts that are not internally sealed have been inventoried complete, including decals and instructions.
SMER De Havilland DH-2 - (DH.2), 1/50, 101
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good
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Large very near 1/48 scale kit of the famous WWI pusher fighter. Cleanly molded in light gray and clear. The kit has never been started. Internal factory sealed bag including decals and instructions.
Minicraft Pinta with Sails From Columbus' Voyage of Discovery - (ex-Heller), 1/72, 102-400
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good-
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NOTE: builder kit only, please read carefully. From Heller molds. Very nicely detailed and molded with over 100 parts. Features full hull with display base, rigging diagrams, vacuform billowing sails and more. Molded in black with white sails. The sails are in 'excellent++' condition. The kit is complete but please: NOTE: the hull halves were once lightly tacked together but have now come apart. There was no other assembly. The port side has a closed crack that is an easy repair; when you hold it together it is virtually invisible. A small, short simple rectangular cross section is broken from one part; it can be replaced with stock extruded styrene.
Minicraft Nina Columbus' Exploration Ship - (ex-Heller), 1/75, 101-400
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed Exc
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Nicely detailed, large-scale kit of one of the three ships that Columbus used on his exploration voyage. Features full hull, billowing vacuform sails, riggng blocks, deadeyes and rigging instructions/diagrams. Measures 10 inches long and 13 inches high when completed.
Revell Columbus' Flagship Santa Maria with Sails, 1/89, H322
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good
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1972 reissue of the 1957 'S' kit. This kit is nicely detailed and molded as were most early Revell sailing ship kits. Includes full hull, detailed deck fittings, thread for standing and running rigging, factory vacuform billowing sails and very good rigging instructions. The kit has never been started. Inventoried 100% complete including decals, colorful flag sheet and instructions. NOTE: the sails have a split in the plastic. There is light wear to some of the decals, I would grade them only 'average.'
DML Fokker D-VII - Ltn. Von Buren Jasta 18 1918 (D.VII), 1/48, 5905
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG-
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1/48 scale kit from 1993. Very highly detailed model. Superbly molded with all very fine recessed details. Features detailed cockpit, machine guns and engine. Includes two frets of photoetched parts and stainless steel rigging cables. The kit has never been started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions. NOTE: the decals are still factory sealed and intact but the have water damage (stains on the backing sheet). Be prepared to supply your own decals for this kit.
Trumpeter Model 33 Submarine / Project 633 Romeo Class, 1/144, 05901
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG++
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Although Trumpeter never mentions it, this model is your only chance to build a large scale, Cold War Soviet Romeo class submarine with very few modifications. Big scale, full hull kit that is well detailed and molded. The kit has never been started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions.
Trumpeter Type 33G Guided Missile Submarine - (From Soviet Romeo Class), 1/144, 05902
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc+
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Big scale kit that is well detailed and molded. Full hull kit can be built with missile launch tubes open and missiles visible. The kit has never been started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions.
Hasegawa Airbus A320 - ANA All Nippon Airways (A-320), 1/200, LL27
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed Exc+
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Still factory sealed. Excellent quality kit features extensive decals, optional position landing gear and display stand.
Matchbox Boeing 737-200 - British Airways or Aer Lingus, 1/200, 40803
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed Exc
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Still factory sealed. Nicely molded kit with good detail. Features optional position landing gear and decals for both airlines listed.