Pyro 1912 Packard Model 30 Touring Car, 1/32, C457-125
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed Mint
$42
Still factory sealed but the seal has split on the short left and right side panels. 1967 Pyro 'Vintage Brass Car' issue from original molds. In the early to mid 1960s the Pyro company chose many of the 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. This Pyro car model is based on the Model 30 that was on display in the Auto Aviation Museum in Cleveland, Ohio that Pyro engineers and designers had access to. The model includes rubber tires, brass plated parts, colored injection molded parts and clear parts. Features detailed chassis, complete motor and interior and a removable hood or 'bonnet.'
Revell Challenger Space Shuttle with Boosters - Columbia / Enterprise / Atlantis / Discovery, 1/288, 4528
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good
$14
1982 issue that includes Space Shuttle, two solid rocket boosters, large center fuel tank and launch base display stand. Includes decals for 5 different shuttles. Never started and inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions. NOTE: the decals have a light moisture stain on the left that comes about 1.25' inches in and runs from the top to the bottom of the decal sheet.
Tamiya Grumman F4F-4 Wildcat - VF-41 USS Ranger / VMF-223 Marines / VGF-29 USS Santee / VF-22 USS Independence- (F4F4), 1/48, 61034
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
$30
Highly detailed, beautifully molded and still the favorite 1/48 F4F-4 Wildcat. Features all very fine recessed details, full cockpit, detailed engine, detailed gear bay and optional position canopy. Never started and the parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions.
Hasegawa Karl with Munitionspanzer IV Ausf F - German Self-Propelled Gun 54cm Morser Karl, 1/72, 33
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
$38
Very highly detailed kit which features 207 finely molded pieces and a track display base. Never started. All parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags including decals and instructions.
Revell Bell UH-1 Huey Attack Helicopter, 1/32, H259
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG++
$69
1970 release. This large, well detailed model features an 18 inch rotor span, detailed Lycoming T53 Jet Engine with removable cowling, highly detailed interior and cockpit with opening cabin doors, moving rotors and weapons system with SS-11 Missiles, M-6 Machine Guns, 7.62 MM Machine Guns and M-6 Guns & Rocket Pods. Includes pilot and gunner figure and US Army First Air Cavalry markings. The kit has never been started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions.
Life-Like Gloster Gladiator, 1/48, 09607
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG
$18
Ex-Pyro and nicely molded. Includes cockpit, positionable pilot figure and molded in realistic fabric surfaces. There is no assembly but NOTE: a few sink holes on the wings are neatly filled with modeling putty. Inventoried complete with all parts, decals and instructions present.
Airfix Spitfire IX - Craftmaster Issue, 1/72, 1222-50
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG++
$24
1960s issue with wonderful Craftmaster artwork. Larger box with white sides issue. The kit has never been started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions.
Airfix Dornier Do-217 E.2 - Craftmaster Issue, 1/72, 2-89
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
$24
From the 1960s. Action-packed artwork shows a British fighter in a hot gun battle with the main Do-217, which is receiving major damage. Another Do-217 released it's bomb load, while the starboard wing on another snaps away in flames as the crew hits the silk. Kit features crew stations and a crew of four, elevating gun and rotating turret, separately molded ailerons, elevators and rudders, optional position landing gear (or even retractable undercarriage but not doors), choice of aft fuselage 'long' tail cone containing the early dive brake or 'short' tail cone after the dive brake was discontinued. Never started. Inventoried 100% complete with all parts, decals and instructions present.
Hudson Miniatures 1909 Stanley Steamer - Old Timers, 1/16
Wood Model Kit, Box Condition: VG
$74
Very well detailed large 1/16 kit from 1949. Features plastic wheels, grill, steering wheel, lights and other accessories and wooden main parts. 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. This kit has never been started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts, plans and instructions present. 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.
Revell German U-Boat Type VIIC /41 Atlantic Version - U292 1 U-Flottille Brest 1944 / U318 13 Flottille Narvik Norway 1945 / U998 5 Flottille Kiel 1943 / 1004 31 Flottille Hamburg 1944, 1/144, 05100
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
$34
2010 issue from completely new molds. This Revell of Germany kit is very highly detailed and finely molded with over 100 pieces and measures over 18 inches long when assembled. Includes painting guide and decals for the four U-Boats listed above. Never started and the parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions.
Revell Messerschmitt Bf-110 G-4 - (Bf110G4), 1/32, H250
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG
$62
Hard to find 1974 issue with great box artwork. Large and well detailed kit features detailed engines, removable cowls, full cockpit, hinged canopies, crew figures, detailed weapons bay and removable access cover, complete radar antenna, very good landing gear detail and excellent decals. Never started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions.
Tamiya Aichi M6A1-K Nanzan (Seiran Kai) - (M6A1K), 1/72, 60738
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG++
$20
Very well molded and detailed. Features all fine recessed panel lines, detailed cockpit, gear wells and undercarriage. Includes a painting guide and decals for two different aircraft. The kit has never been started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions.
AV USK Kawasaki Ki-32 Mary, 1/72, AV1007
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG+
$28
Limited edition kit that is very nicely molded. Features fine panel line detail, interior, full decals and painting guide. The kit has never been started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions.
Airfix DH Comet 4B - Dan-Air Skyking Series, 1/144, 03170-7
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
$34
Very nicely detailed and molded kit from 1980. Features clear windows, full landing gear and passenger boarding stairs. Includes colorful Dan-Air London decals. Never started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions. The initial Comet Is were in operation long before the 707, which gave the British an incredible post-war lead in the expanding civil aviation market. Just as the Comet was flying high and orders were pouring in from around the world, Comets began to mysteriously fall out of the sky. Everything from lighting to terrorist bombs were blamed. For months the root cause went undiscovered. Then, in a landmark investigation that is considered the first modern post-crash autopsy, it was discovered that the stresses around a small ADF window on the top of the fuselage were causing metal fatigue failure when the fuselage was pressurized. To confirm this, a Comet I was placed in a water tank and subjected to pressurization stresses. After some time, a dramatic failure occurred. Then parts of a crashed Comet were pulled from underwater proving once and for all that this was the root cause.
Airfix DH Tiger Moth - Craftmaster Issue, 1/72, 1004-30
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
$20
Very nicely detailed and finely molded model from the 1960s. Never started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions.
AMT Grumman F7F-2/2N Tigercat - Nightfighter VF(N)-52 and Naval Air Test Aircraft - (F7F2), 1/48, 8844
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG
$46
Large scale Nightfighter Tigercat includes markings for VF(N)-52 from the USS Antietam and the unique all yellow test aircraft from the Naval Air Test Center. Features 120 parts, fully detailed cockpit, engines and landing gear. Has recessed panel lines and real rubber tires. Never started. The parts and all paperwork & decals are still in the internal factory sealed bags. 99% of everything inside the box is factory sealed. The only thing that was never factory sealed are the three rubber tires; they are inventoried complete.
Huma Model Grunau 9 And Schulgleiter SG-38 Gliders - Bagged, 1/72
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed Bag
$20
Still factory sealed. Limited edition injection molded kit includes both gliders and full decals.
Lindberg Republic P-47N Thunderbolt, 1/48, 511-98
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: NM
$65
Early hardbox issue from the late 1950s with colorful Ray Gaedke hardbox artwork. The box is in amazing investment grade 'near mint' condition with like-new color and gloss, four solid corners, no repairs, fading, creases or stains. Light general wear and tape marks on the two longs sides are the only flaw. This is the second issue of this kit for the USA, with added fine rivet detail and molded in silver and clear. Never started. Inventoried 100% complete with all parts decals and instructions. This kit started as a basic 1/48 scale model with full landing gear, rockets and bombs. Surface detail was minimal Lindberg modified it in the mid 1950s with fine raised panel lines and tasteful rivet detail. In the late 1950s, they modified it again to a motorized version with the batteries in the stand and a kit electric motor in the nose. Lindberg is a company with a fascinating history The original 'Lindberg Line' stretches back to the 1930s when Paul Lindberg drew plans for famous modeling magazines and marketed his balsa wood 'stick and tissue' by urging dealers to carry the '...Complete Lindberg Line'. After the war, Lindberg and Olsen had a strong hand in early United States injection molded kit development. Please see the article located on this website about early USA plastic kit manufacturers.
Meikraft Models Grumman FF-1, 1/72, 1608
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG
$32
Very limited production, only 2000 made. This is the first carrier aircraft to have an enclosed cockpit and retractable gear. The kit has never been started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions.
Comet P-40 Tiger Shark - 18 Inch Wingspan - Coke Bottle Issue, N1-29
Wood Model Kit, Box Condition: Good+
$44
This model comes from the personal collection of one of Monogram's top Chief Designers. He designed and headed up the projects for the B-52, B-17, B-24J, Mosquito, Skyraider A-1E, Hurricane, Spitfire, P-40, at least one (if not all) of the 1/8 scale cars and many, many more. The actual kit is a 1950s/early 1960s stick-and-tissue flying model. Features quality balsa printwood, strip stock, formed wheels, covering material and full plans. The kit has never been started and is complete. The entire Comet 1950s "N" line included the following (gaps mean there is no kit, at least at that time): N1 Tiger Shark P-40, N2 F-86D Sabre Jet, N4 Globe Swift, N6 Taylorcraft, N8 F-51 Mustang, N9 Helicopter, N11 Ryan Navion, N12 Firefly, N15 Piper Cub, N16 Fokker DVII, N17 Spad, N24 Phantom Fury, N25 Aeronca K (floats) and N26 Stinson SR-7. 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.