Lindberg US Moon Ship, 1/96, 1003-98
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG
$69
Rare first issue from the 1950s. Lindberg made the world's first plastic science fiction model, the famous UFO. The sales success quickly prompted a wonderful line of 'near science fiction' models of which this Moon Ship was one. Very nicely molded and detailed in silver and red-tinted clear plastic. Display base and scale figures are included. Never started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions. NOTE: the box displays slightly better than the 'very good' rating but is graded a such because of moderate to significant wear on the right-hand long side panel.
Lindberg Satellite With Three Stage Launching Rocket, 1004-98
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG+
$225
Rare first issue kit from the 1950s. Fantastic Ray Gaedke box artwork. Kit can be taken apart and reassembled to show each mission stage. Features detailed satellite payload with clear housing as shown on box top, three separate stages with engines, clear rocket engine housings for stage one and two, loading truck and four rocket supports for display. Includes a very large and colorful decal sheet with all the markings shown on the rocket on the right of the box top. Molded in gloss silver and clear. The kit has never been started. Inventoried 100% complete including decals and instructions. Decals and instructions are 'excellent'.
Lindberg North American P-51D Mustang, 1/72, 409-29
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG++
$34
Excellent condition early issue from the mid/late 1950s. Features Ray Gaedke artwork. The hardbox has as-new color and gloss, four solid corners and light general wear as shown. Molded in silver and clear. The kit has never been started. Inventoried 100% complete including decals and instructions.
Lindberg Messerschmitt Me-262 - Cellovision Issue, 1/48, 538-98
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed Exc
$54
Still factory sealed. Late 1950s Cellovision issue with dramatic Gaedke artwork. The clear panel is 100% intact and the trading card on the back is in 'excellent++' condition. The model is loaded with features including detailed jet engines with removable cowlings, retractable landing gear, detailed gun bay with removable cover, pilot figure, hinged canopy, bomb load and more.
ERTL Wings of Texaco Number 1 Through 3 - 1929 Lockheed Air Express / 1932 Northrop Gamma / 1931 Stearman Biplane, 1/25
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good to Very Good
$49
The 'Wings of Texaco' came out in the early 1990s and instantly became highly collectible. These are beautiful, true-scale, factory built, painted & decorated all-metal aircraft. Includes the first 3 aircraft in this series of the Famous Aircraft owned & flown by the Texas Oil Company. All boxes are in 'good' or 'very good' condition and the aircraft have never been removed from the box. They are in factory-new condition and still in the original internal packaging.
Amodel Tupolev Tu-126 Moss, 1/72, 72017
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
$205
Rare and the only 1/72 scale injection-molded kit ever made of this Soviet airborne radar/early warning aircraft. Never started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions. The Tupolev TU-126 Moss (NATO Designation) was based on the obsolete Aeroflot TU-114 Airliner, itself developed from the TU-95 (TU-20) Bear turboprop bomber first flown in the 1950s. The Tupolev Bear and derivatives have the distinction of being the fastest propeller driven aircraft in the world. First identified in 1968, the Moss is believed to have entered service in 1971, the exact number used by Soviet Forces being unknown. The TU-126 has been assessed by Western sources as being of only limited capability, being unable to detect cruise missiles or small aircraft at low level. Commencing in the early 1980s the Beriev A-50 Mainstay began development to replace the TU-126 in service. With greater capability than the Moss, operational examples began being fielded in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Amodel Miasischev M-50A Bounder - Supersonic Soviet Bomber, 1/72, 72016
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
$215
Rare and the only 1/72 scale injection-molded kit ever made of this giant Russian Supersonic Bomber. Never started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions. From the website nuke.fas.org comes this descriptions: OKB Myasishchyev began working on the supersonic intercontinental bomber M-50 in 1956. The aircraft was intended to be equipped with and the supersonic long-range M-61 cruise missile, also developed by OKB Myasishchyev. The bomber had a strategic strike capability due to its range of 10,000 km plus the 1000 km range of the missile. The M-50 had forward trailing triangular wings, a wing span of 35.1 meters and a length of 57.5 meters. Powered by four "16-17" engines developed by P.F. Zubets, two engine pods were mounted outboard on the wings and two less powerful engines at the tip of the wings. The prototype was constructed in 1959 and made the first flight on 27 October 1959. As engines the which were supposed to equip the airplane were at that time not yet available, on the prototype version two VD-7 engines and two VD-7g were used. In this configuration the demonstrated a speed of Mach 0.99. The second M-50, designated the M-52, carried the Zubets engines around which the aircraft had been designed. The engine installation was modified, and a second tailplane was added to the top of the fin. In December 1960, N. S. Khruschev, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) made a speech at the Supreme Soviet session in which he proclaimed the inexpedience of the further development of military aircraft. The Soviet leader, fascinated by the triumph of Russian space technology and exploration, directed that all the tasks formerly executed by the combat aircraft be performed by guided missiles of various types. The Council of Ministers and the CPSU Central Committee issued a joint decree terminating work on new aircraft. The first victims of the decree were the Lavochkin and Myasischev aircraft design bureaus. They had to fully reorganize their work. V. Myasischev was appointed director of TsAGI. He was very disappointed at the fact that only a few of his M-50 and M-52 long-range supersonic bombers were produced. In 1960 development of the M-50 bomber was halted when OKB Myasishchyev was dis-established.Surprisingly little is known about the Bounder. One writer commented that it was "an outstanding failure which revealed an embarrassing lack of understanding of the problems of high-speed flight."
Amodel Myasischev 3M Bison, 1/72, 72008
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed Exc
$200
Still factory sealed. Rare and the only 1/72 scale injection-molded kit ever made of this giant USSR Cold War Bomber.
Amodel Ilyushin Il-20 / Il-24, 1/72, 72013
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good++
$189
Rare and the only 1/72 scale injection-molded kit ever made of this large aircraft. Never started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions.
Amodel Il-38 - Dolphin / NATO Reporting Name May, 1/72, 72010
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG
$189
Rare and the only 1/72 scale injection-molded kit ever made of this large anti-submarine aircraft. Never started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions.
Amodel I-16 Type 5/6 - USSR Air Force December 1939 / USSR 1941 / Spanish Civil War 1938 / Spanish Air Force 4th Sq 1938 / Another Same Squadron 1938 / Spain Oct. 1938 and Sept 1938, 1/72, 72124
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG
$22
Injection molded kit that includes a decal sheet with two USSR and numerous different Spanish Civil War markings. Never started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions.
Amodel SM-1/300 With Additional Wing, 1/72, 72113
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
$20
Rare. Features good cockpit and colorful markings for the box art helicopter. Never started. Either inventoried complete or still in the factory sealed bag and includes decals and instructions. NOTE: decals are intact but have visible age micro-cracking. Please read the two articles (on this website) about how to save or reproduce old decals.
Estes Masters Series Mercury Atlas Missile, 1/35, EST2111
Multimedia Model Kit, Box Condition: VG
$69
NOTE: missing parts. This is a builder kit ONLY and is not collectible. Please read carefully for the description of what is missing. Very well detailed model of this famous, early manned spacecraft measures almost 3 feet tall when assembled. Can be built as a static model or flying model. Includes decals for all manned Mercury Atlas missions including John Glenn's Friendship 7, Wally Schirra's Sigma 7, Scott Carpenter's Aurora 7 and Gordon Coopers Faith 7. Never started. Inventoried and NOTE: missing two pieces: main body tube and the main plastic shroud/coupler. Otherwise includes all other parts, decals and instructions.
Estes Saturn V - 43 Inch Flying Model Rocket, 2001
Multimedia Model Kit, Box Condition: Good
$85
This is the classic Estes Saturn V that is 43.25 inches high and 3.93 inches in diameter. Recommended engine is the D12-3. The kit has never been started. Most parts are still in the factory sealed bags. The few parts that were not factory sealed (large parts, body tubes) have been inventoried complete. Includes decals (still in a sealed bag with other parts) and detailed instructions.
Novo Vickers Vimy Mk IV Heavy Bomber - No. 70 Squadron Egypt 1921 / RAE 1919-1922 Research Aircraft Used For Experiments Including Automatic Landing Systems - (ex Frog), 1/72, F163
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed Exc
$42
Still factory sealed. From quality ex-Frog molds. Please note that this is the wartime version with the guns and bombs and not the post-war transatlantic version. The 'gun & bomb' version has become somewhat harder to find. Includes markings and color paint guide for the two aircraft listed.
Novo Bristol 138A - (ex Frog), 1/72, F165
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
$24
This model is from the original Frog molds and make an ideal 'Classic Builder'. It has never been started. It has been inventoried with all plastic parts and and instructions present. NOTE: missing decals. On the 28th of September, 1936, the Bristol 138/A climbed to an altitude of 49,967 feet to establish a new world altitude record. In 1937 it climbed to 53,967 feet where the windscreen cracked. The pilot was saved by the pressure suit he was wearing.
Novo Canberra Low Level Bomber - English Electric BAC Canberra B(1) Mk.8 or B(1)Mk. 12 - RAF No. 88 Sq Wildenrath W. Germany 1960 or South African No. 12 Sq. Waterkloof 1969 - (ex Frog), 1/72, 78090
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG++
$22
From original Frog molds. Like most Frog kits, this model does not have out-of-scale rivet detail but has very fine panel lines only, which makes it easy to build up to a very realistic model. Includes parts and decals for either version. The kit has never been started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions.
Novo DH-88 Comet Racer - ex Frog - Bagged, 1/72, F168
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
$29
This older but excellent quality kit build a realistic model of the famous 'Golden Age' of aviation racer. Never started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions. Includes figures of Capt. Scott and Capt. Black, the famous Comet pilots who won the 1934 MacRobertson Air Race from England to Australia. The DH-88 was designed specifically for this race and performed wonderfully.
Novo Supermarine Attacker Naval Fighter - (ex Frog), 1/72, F330
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed Mint
$18
Still factory sealed and from the the original Frog molds.
ESCI Panavia Tornado 200 MRCA Desert Storm With PP Aeroparts Crew Access Ladder and CBLS 200 Units - RAF / Italian / Saudi Arabian Air Forces, 1/48, 4093
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good+
$36
Includes the following factory-sealed aftermarket accessories: PP Aeroparts #AC403 CBLS 200 Unites (2) 1/48 RAF/RN Practice Bomb Carriers and #AL403 Crew Access Ladder 1/48 Tornado GR1/F3. The actual kit features full cockpit, wings that change angle, optional position air brakes, separately molded control surfaces, weapons load and more. Includes markings for all three air forces for Desert Storm Aircraft. Never started. The parts that were factory sealed (the small ones) are still in the sealed bags. The parts that are not factory sealed (the large ones) have been inventoried complete including decals and instructions.