Lindberg US Bomber Escort - North American P-51D Mustang, 1/72, 417-39
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc++++
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Late 1950s - early 1960s one-piece soft box with a color trading card on the back. This box is in excellent condition which is most unusual for these thin boxes. Never started. Factory sealed bag or inventoried 100% complete with all parts, decals and instructions.
Lindberg US Strategic Strafer - Republic P-47D Thunderbolt, 1/72, 416-39
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc++++
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Late 1950s - early 1960s one-piece soft box with a color trading card on the back. This box is in excellent condition which is most unusual for these thin boxes. Never started. Factory sealed bag or inventoried 100% complete with all parts, decals and instructions.
UPC USSR Patrol Torpedo Boat PT-8 - No. 915 for Motorizing, 1/87, 5008-100
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc+++
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Rare kit from UPC with box artwork by Eidson. The mold origins of this kit are not known. The kit can be motorized but the motor was not furnished with the kit - like virtually all UPC kits. The kit includes battery contacts, metal shaft and prop, switch and switch contacts, wire and U-joint. The plastic parts are molded in dark blue. The kit has not been started. NOTE: missing one of two crew members. Inventoried complete with all other parts, Soviet decals, instructions and motorizing hardware. Please note that the instructions show two ways to motorize the kit - the parts are included for the instructions on the back. Why UPC listed two ways is confusing at best, as each requires a different set of hardware. UPC stood for Universal Powermaster Corporation which was based out of New York City, NY. UPC did not cut their own molds, but bought kits already molded from other manufacturers and re-boxed the kits in the USA. Scott Eidson, the famous artist best known for his artwork with Revell, also did UPC box art in the 1960s. All UPC production ended in the 1970s.
Revell Cutty Sark with Billowing Sails and Pre-Painted Hull - Three Feet Long, 1/96, H395-1200
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG+
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1964 issue of this classic kit. Features beautiful John Steel boxart. Large and highly detailed kit. This is an early version of the kit with the hull factory painted copper below the waterline. The copper paint in as new. The model measures 36 inches long and 22 inches high when assembled. Kit features highly detailed deck, deck houses, cargo holds and covers, masts, yards and booms, bilge pump, windlass, 20 crew figure, and lifeboats with oars, life preservers, anchors and anchor chains. Includes draftline and transom decals, figurehead, finely detailed hull, preformed ratlines and molded deadeyes, pin rails and blocks, full standing and running rigging instructions and diagrams, flag sheet, 35 pre-formed vac billowing sails and thread and chain for rigging. Molded in three colors. The model has never been started. Inside, it is like new. The parts are still in the factory sealed bags.
ESCI T62 (T-62) and 48 Warsaw Pact Soldiers, 1/72
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc+
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Rare kit. Highly detailed T-62 model and 48 Warsaw Pact soldiers in various poses. The model has not been started. The parts are either in factory sealed bag(s) or inventoried 100% complete with all parts, decals and instructions.
Dragon A-10 Kuwait Highway Patrol 760th TFS - 926 TFG, 1/144, 4571
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed Mint
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Still factory sealed. Very nicely detailed 1/144 scale aircraft.
Dragon CG-60 USS Normandy (Bunker Hill/Mobile Bay/Antietam/Leyte Gulf/San Jacinto/Lake Champlain/Philippine Sea/Princeton) Guided Missile Cruiser, 1/700, 7023
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc++
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Very finely molded and very highly detailed kit. Can be built waterline or full hull. Includes hull numbers and names so you can built any of the ships listed. Never started. Factory sealed bag with decals and instructions.
Aoshima German Battleship Tirpitz, 1/700, 103
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed Exc
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Still factory sealed. 1/700 scale waterline kit. Very highly detailed and finely molded.
Monogram Mitsubishi Zero (Zeke), 1/48, PA73-98
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed Mint
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Still factory sealed. First issue hardbox dated 1962. This model is part of a very popular and successful line of 1/48 World War II kits that Monogram issued through the 1960s. Kit features retracting landing gear, rotating prop and wheels, machine guns/cannons and belly tank. NOTE: Seal has splits typical of the old brittle cello seal, but is intact.
Sterling Ansaldo S.V.A. 5 That Drops Leaflets in Flight - 19 Inch Wingspan R/C / Freeflight / Control Line Aircraft - (SVA-5), A18
Wood Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed Mint
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Still factory sealed. 19 inch wingspan kit for RC, free flight or control line. Includes innovative system for automatically dropping 'propaganda leaflets' in flight. 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 featured color decals, high-grade die cut balsa, vacuform plastic detail parts, plastic wheels (if required), finished wire landing gear, rubber motor and plastic prop, full size plans with instruction details and full instructions for conversion to RC or control line.
TwoBobs S-3B 'Santa Tracker' Viking - VS-35 Blue Wolves, 1/48, 48-044
Cardstock Paper Model Kit, Box Condition: Mint
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Mint condition decals for 1/48 S-3B Viking on the USS Abraham Lincoln.
Berkeley Piper Comanche - King Size RC Flying Model Airplane Kit, 1/8, 3-9 795
Wood Model Kit, Box Condition: VG++
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Very large scale (1/8) model of the famous private aircraft and trainer. Wingspan measures 54 inches. Originally designed as a gas powered model for RC (radio control) gear- can be converted to electric power if you desire. Kit features precision cut wood parts, full color decals, operating wing flaps, silkspan covering and planking, die cut windshield, shock mounted wing and landing gear, formed struts hardware and more. The model has not been started. The parts are either in factory sealed bag(s) or inventoried 100% complete with all parts, decals and instructions. Berkeley is a very famous manufacturer of flying model kits from the Golden Age of flying aviation, about 1932-1954. Founded in 1933 by William Effinger, the company was quite progressive in producing quality kits - it was likely the Berkeley 'Buccaneer' was the first gas powered model in kit form. In the later 1930s, Effinger acquired the services of a very talented Henry Struck. Struck went on to design numerous award-winning kits under the Berkeley name. Berkeley weathered the post WWII recession and emerged as a major kit producer in the late 1940 and 1950s. These were great years for Berkeley and they produced some incredible and large kits. The company went bankrupt in about 1960 however. Fox engines (Duke Fox) bought the company and released the kits alongside his own FOX models and engines. This arrangement did not last, and in the early 1960s the Berkeley name disappeared from hobby shop shelves.
Revell Prototype F-111 TFX (US Air Force F-111A or US Navy F-111B), 1/72, H208
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed Good+++
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Still factory sealed. Softbox issue dated 1969. Builds either Air Force F-111A or short nose and wingspan Navy F-111B. Features operating variable position wings, movable stabilizers, removable nose with detailed radar, fully retractable landing gear and removable crew escape pod.
Aurora USS Forrestal, 1/600, 701-249
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG+
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First issue from 1956. This is the only issue with this dramatic Jo Kotula artwork and the rectangular Northern Lights logo. Features a one piece hull, positionable elevators, AA guns and airwing. The kit has never been started. Internal factory sealed bag or inventoried 100% complete including decals and instructions.
MPC HP Halifax Profile Series - Prototype R9543 / No.347 'Tunisie' Free French Air Force / No.408 'Goose' Sq No.6 Group Yorkshire, 1/72, 2-2504
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Poor
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Profile Series - builds any of the the three aircraft. Well detailed kit. Kit features movable control surfaces, elevating guns, rotating turrets, retracting landing gear, rotating props and wheels. This kit has never been started. It is either still in the internally sealed factory bag or has been inventoried 100% complete with all parts, decals and instructions. NOTE: six prop blades are broken off. All six are included. The box is poor but the decals and instructions are excellent.
UPC North American A3J-1 Vigilante (ex-Marusan) - Bagged, 1/129
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: No Box
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NOTE: bagged kit only - no box. The box is shown for reference only. From quality Marusan molds. Features full landing gear and clear canopy. When the nose probe is pulled, the canopy opens. The model as never been started. The parts are either still in the factory sealed bag or have been inventoried 100% complete with all parts, decals and instructions. UPC stood for Universal Powermaster Corporation which was based out of New York City, NY. UPC did not cut their own molds, but bought kits already molded from other manufacturers and re-boxed the kits in the USA. Scott Eidson, the famous artist best known for his artwork with Revell, also did UPC box art in the 1960s. All UPC production ended in the 1970s.
Pyro Design-A-Car Automobile Designing and Construction Set, 361-698
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG++
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Unique kit build 14 inch long cars with the "Design-A-Car Computer" shown on the box cover. Makes custom, hardtop, convertible, sedan or sports cars. Decals, instructions and computer are as new. The kit normally comes with enough parts to make 2 cars at once; but this kit is missing parts so you can only build one. Missing: one car interior (other one complete and present), one bumperette #49 (many other bumper types includes), and two #49 fenders (there are other fenders present). All other parts are included.
Cleveland Douglas DC-2 Balsa Flying Model Airplane Kit, 1/24, D-55
Wood Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
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This is a Cleveland 'D' or dwarf kit. The term 'Dwarf' is deceptive here. Most Cleveland kits were designated 'SF' or Scale Flying - 1/16 scale. The Dwarf kits were needed to fill a market demand for smaller flying models - especially of the larger aircraft. The 'D' kits, like this DC-2, are 1/24. The kit came from a long time collector of 1930s and 1940s models and is in exceptional condition. All Cleveland kits were exceptionally complete and this one is no exception. Features very high quality balsa printwood and strip wood, covering material, highest quality plans, all parts required for assembly and decals (if issued with the kit). The model has not been started. The parts are either in factory sealed bag(s) or inventoried 100% complete with all parts and instructions. The Cleveland Model and Supply Company played a pivotal role in the development of true scale models. In 1909 Bleriot’s English Channel flight caused a surge in aviation and model aircraft around the globe. Several companies were ideally positioned to take advantage of the aviation craze. In the USA, Wading River Manufacturing Co. (1909), White Aeroplane (1911), Ideal Model Aeroplane (1911), Broadfield Model Aeroplanes (1919) were among these pioneers, offering everything from plans and parts to complete kits and ARF models. Lindbergh’s 1927 crossing of the Atlantic Ocean caused an even bigger world-wide phenomenon called “The Aviation Craze” that extended up to the start of World War II. Many companies such as Megow, Guillow's and others started right around the time of Lindbergh’s flight. Some of these models flew and flew well, but they all had one thing in common - were generally not accurate scale representations. In 1929, a youngster named Ed Packard had a very advanced dream – to produce incredibly accurate, true scale models that flew perfectly. This radical idea established the world’s longest operating single-owner model airplane supply business – Cleveland Model and Supply Company. To this day, Cleveland models are treasured as the most accurate flying scale models produced. The fact that Mr. Packard started and successfully grew this business during The Great Depression is a testament to his ideals and business skill. I highly suggest the excellent book called ‘Aviation’s great Recruiter – Cleveland’s Ed Packard’ by H.L. (Herm) Schreiner. It is an excellent history of the man, his company and the times of the Golden Age of Model Aviation.
AMT 1961 Lincoln Continental Hardtop - 3 in 1 Kit, 1/25, K421
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG+
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Rare first issue. Can be built one of three ways - Stock, Prestige Car (with Government decals) or Custom. Includes numerous additional parts for the custom version as well as 'show' chromed brake drum, jack, 3 trophies and much more. Features full interior, rotating wheels, exhaust and underside detail. Molded in white, clear, red tinted clear, and chrome. With real rubber tires. The kit has never been started. NOTE: missing one part, the 'wall display shelf' listed on the side. Otherwise inventoried with all other parts including decals and instructions.
Delta S-55 X Savoia Marchetti (S.55), 1/72
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Fair+++
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Rare early Italian issue from Delta. Never started. Inventoried 100% complete with all parts, decals and instructions. NOTE: the two main fuselage sections have some cracked and broken off side wall sections. The breaks are clean with no bending, and the parts dry fit back perfectly. It would be a simple repair. The first aircraft to fly across the Atlantic in formation. The S-55 was a unique aircraft with the passenger compartments in the floats and the cockpit in the wing; the two engines are mounted in tandem push/pull above the cockpit. The S-55 proved to be very reliable and airworthy, setting 14 world records for speed, altitude and distance with a payload. Three months before Lindbergh's solo Atlantic flight, and S-55 flew with stops from Italy to Rio and NY City. In 1933 Marshal Balbo led 25 S-55s to Chicago in about 48 hours. He then flew back without incident.