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Revell 1913 Mercedes Factory Display With The Original Box - Built Up With Case - Highway Pioneers, 1/32

Plastic Model Kit,   Box Condition: Exc

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Very rare and even more so with the original shipping box. This is a Revell-factory built display built for hobby shop promotional use around 1954. The intention was simple- if hobby shops would purchase and display 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. And 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. It is 100% complete and has no breaks and no repairs. Even the base, etched gold name of the car and 'jewel case' cover are in excellent condition. 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.

Revell 1903 Cadillac Action Miniatures - Pre Highway Pioneers, 1/32

Plastic Model Kit,   Box Condition: VG+

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From the very early 1950s; very rare and in the original box. It is easy to forget that the birth of the modern USA model kit industry was an accident. Before the plastic kit age, Revell, Gowland & Gowland, Aurora and others were completely involved in making toys and an occasional injection molding contract job. Toys were the way to make money, but it was risky business and hit-or-miss. J.P. Gowland was a very creative and innovative toy company with many patents and they often sold their ideas to other companies or marketed them through another manufacturer. Gowland created many other action toys such as Champ, Chu-Chu the Maxwell and many more. What would become the Highway Pioneers began as the 'Revell Action Miniatures.' The simple car model was factory assembled and airbrushed, then a 'Controlit' knob and flexible metal control line was attached to the car, braced at the lower radiator and then hooked to the rear differential, which was mounted on a pivot. When you moved the lever, the rear end jumped down, throwing the back of the car into the air and somewhat forward. Well, someone at Revell or Gowland got the very bright idea that perhaps these would sell without the Controlit attachment and in parts that had to be assembled! It was a smashing success that swept the entire country...thus the Highway Pioneers and the modern US Plastic Modeling industry was born. When you look at your early Highway Pioneers models, you can spot the older 'Action Miniature' molds because these is a round acceptor molded into the lower part of the radiator, which braced the front of the Controlit assembly. The hinged rear end was unique to the Action Miniatures and was eliminated for the Highway Pioneers. This example is in excellent condition as shown with the original box. The Controlit action feature works perfectly. These were very short lived because of the wild success of their non-assembled, non-action version, the Highway Pioneers. 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.

Pyro 1912 Packard Model 30 Touring Car - Brass Car Series, 1/32, C457-125

Plastic Model Kit,   Box Condition: Good

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1967 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. 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'. The kit has never been started. Inventoried 100% complete including instructions.

Monogram F-100 Super Sabre - With SuperScale Decals - Fighter Bomber Camo or Natural Finish, 1/48, 5416

Plastic Model Kit,   Box Condition: VG

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Includes the incredibly colorful SuperScale International #48-226 "F-110 Super Sabers USAF 429 FBS 474 FBW & 50th TFW." In mind condition and never used. The actual model is the 1980 issue of this detailed Monogram kit. Includes paint guide and decals for High Vis or Vietnam Camo variants. Features full cockpit and wheel well details, visible gun bay with optional hatch, realistic internal inlet, optional jet exhaust and refueling probe for camo or natural finish, optional position speed brakes and canopy, full underwing stores - missiles, drop tank and boarding ladder. The kit has never been started. It has been inventoried and NOTE: missing pilot and ground crew figures. Otherwise complete with all other parts and includes decals and instructions.

Revell Cutty Sark Clipper Ship - 3 Feet Long, 1/96, H364-995

Plastic Model Kit,   Box Condition: Good-

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Rare first issue of this kit dated 1960. Large and highly detailed, measuring 36 inches long when built. Although older, this kit is the standard that all other large-scale plastic models of sailing ships are measured by. Since this is the first issue, the model has the factory painted copper hull below the waterline. The factory paint is in amazing 'excellent++' condition. Since this is a first edition it also contains the larger-format earlier booklet about the Cutty Sark. The model features highly detailed deck, deck houses, cargo holds and removable covers, masts, yards and booms, bilge pump, windlass, 20 crew figure, lifeboats with oars, life preservers, anchors and anchor chains. With draftline and transom decals, figurehead, finely detailed hull, preformed ratlines and molded deadeyes, pin rails and blocks, full standing rigging instructions and diagrams and thread & chain for rigging. Molded in three colors - black, ivory/white and dark wood tan. The kit has never been started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts present. Includes instructions, rigging plans and decals. Please note that the box displays better than the 'good-' condition grade. That is because there is significant litho loss on the left short side panel.

ESCI TWO German Sturmtruppen Sappers Unit / TWO 7.5cm Light Infantry Gun German Artillery Unit, 1/35, 5006

Plastic Model Kit,   Box Condition: Sealed NM

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SALE!! Includes all four factory sealed models. Each Sappers kit includes 101 pieces total, 6 men and accessories. Each 7.5cm kit includes a well detailed artillery piece, crew of four and accessories.

Italeri TWO German Infantry / German Paratroopers / German Artillery, 1/35, 334

Plastic Model Kit,   Box Condition: Sealed NM

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SALE!! Includes all four factory sealed models. Perfect for 1/35 scale dioramas.

Tamiya German Army Infantry / German Army Officers / Wehrmacht Mounted Infantry Set / 3 German Infantry Weapons Set, 1/35, MM102

Plastic Model Kit,   Box Condition: Sealed Exc to VG+

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SALE!! Includes all six sets. Perfect for any 1/35 modern armor or diorama. They have never been started. The three with troops are still factory sealed. Two of the Weapons Sets are still factory sealed inside. The third has been opened but is never started. NOTE: this one set is missing (1) of (7) ammo boxes. Otherwise inventoried complete with all other parts present.

Tamiya US Infantry West European Theater And US Combat Group Set, 1/35, MM148A

Plastic Model Kit,   Box Condition: VG

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SALE!! Includes both kits. They have never been started and are both are either inventoried complete or still sealed in the internal factory bag. With instructions.

Skywave JMSDF DDG-169 Asakaze And Kurama DDH-144 - With P-3 Orions and Helicopters, 1/700, 42

Plastic Model Kit,   Box Condition: Exc to Sealed Exc

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SALE!! Includes both very high quality Pit Road/Skywave waterline kits. Asakaze is still factory sealed. Kurama has never been started and the parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions (on the back of the box).

Trumpeter T-34 /76 Model 1943, 1/16, 00903

Plastic Model Kit,   Box Condition: VG

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Very large and highly detailed kit with 764 parts. Features full interior details, metal parts for steel tow rope and springs, photoetched grills, very realistic treads and much more. Never started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions.

Comet Douglas Skyray F4D - 19.7 Inches Long - Coca-Cola Bottle Issue, Y9-129

Wood Model Kit,   Box Condition: Good

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Part of the deluxe high-cost Comet "Y" kit line from the 1950s/early 1960s. Note the box showing a bottle of Coke next to the young builder's snack tray and a finished aircraft. Measures 19 11/16 inches long with a 15.5 inch wingspan when assembled. Kit features traditional wood/tissue construction, very high quality printwood, stripwood and spars, other balsa stock as required, completely preformed wood wheels and covering tissue. The model has not been started. It has been inventoried with all parts present but NOTE: missing plans. They are available on-line. At the time of this kit, the entire Comet "Y" line consisted of Y1 F-51 Mustang, Y2 A-26 Invader, Y3 P-47, Y4 Hellcat F6f, Y5 P-38 Lightning, Y6 F-84F Thunderflash, Y7 Cougar F9F, Y8 Taylorcraft, Y9 Douglas Skyray F4D, Y10 Piper Cub Super Cruiser, Y11 Douglas Skystreak D558-1, Y12 F-86 Sabre, Y13 Gull and Y14 Aeronca Chief. 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.

ESCI Curtiss P-36A Hawk 75A-3 - USAAC 94th Pursuit Sq 1st Pursuit Group / French Air Force 2e Esc CG 1/4 Dakar Senegal 1942, 1/48, 4101

Plastic Model Kit,   Box Condition: Exc++

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Nicely molded with very fine raised panel lines, recessed control surface lines, 'good' cockpit, gear well detail, optional position landing gear and paint guide and decals for both aircraft listed. Never started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions.

R&L The Mayflower - Pilgrims Ship from 1620 - Bagged, 1/720

Plastic Model Kit,   Box Condition: No Box

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Still factory sealed. Very well detailed and molded. Full hull kit includes sails and is approximately 2.75 inches long when built. Small scale model from R&L in Australia. R&L marketed these kits independently but some were also sold by Minicraft/Hasegawa, Academy, as the Aurora 'Snaparoos' and in Kellogg's Cereal as premiums.

Berkeley North American AJ-1 Savage Navy Bomber - Twin Gas Engines Plus Jetex Engine 27 Inch Wingspan Flying Aircraft, 1/32

Wood Model Kit,   Box Condition: Good-

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Very rare, and even more so in this condition. Large, true scale model with no deviations from the original prototype and designed for operation with three engines- two gas and one Jetex. For .045 to .099 gas engines for control line or can be converted to electric power. Highly prefabricated and features carved and hollowed fuselage and nacelles, five metal-hub rubber wheels, full decals, metal engine cowls, clear canopy, shaped leading and trailing edges, all die-cut parts, full size plans and more. The model has not been started. Inventoried complete including all parts and paperwork. 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.

Tamiya IJN Destroyers Harusame Plus Aoshima Ariake And Amatsukaze, 1/700, WLD034

Plastic Model Kit,   Box Condition: Exc

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SALE!! Includes all three kits in the original boxes. All three kits have never been started and the parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals (if furnished) and instructions.

Aoshima IJN Destroyers Nenohi Kagero And Yukikaze, 1/700, WLD061

Plastic Model Kit,   Box Condition: Exc

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SALE!! Includes all three kits in the original boxes. All three are never started and the parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals (if furnished) and instructions.

Tamiya P-51D Mustang, 1/32, 60322-9800

Plastic Model Kit,   Box Condition: Sealed Exc++

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Still factory sealed. Dated 2011 and needs little introduction. This is an amazing model of high quality and superb detail, inside and out.

Faller Junkers Ju-52 Motorized - Lufthansa / Luftwaffe / Ambulance, 1/100, 1052

Plastic Model Kit,   Box Condition: Good+

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From the early 1960s. Rare 1/100 scale Ju-52 in Lufthansa, Luftwaffe or Air Ambulance markings. Features great box art of Berlin Tempelhof Airport in the 1930s. The kit is designed to be motorized for all three props with the miniatures Faller no. 1001 motor (not included, Faller sold them separately). Very nicely molded for that time with correct corrugated skin, clear side and cockpit windows and more. The kit has never been started. The small parts (including the motor-specific parts) are still in the factory sealed bag. The parts that were never factory sealed have been inventoried complete with the large decal sheet and instructions present. Even the colorful Faller magazine order sheet is present; it is dated 1957 and 1958.

Revell A4D Skyhawk (A-4D) - Famous Artist Series, 1/51, H179-98

Plastic Model Kit,   Box Condition: VG+

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1960 hardbox issue with Bullpup missiles and classic framable box art by Bart Doe. Features pilot figure in cockpit section, working wing flaps, detailed landing gear, drop tank, two Bullpups, two missile trailers and three ground crewmen. Never started. Inventoried complete with all parts, decals and instructions present. Does not include trading card or stamp.