Octopus Vought OS2U Kingfisher - With Landing Gear or Floats - Fleet Air Arm or US Navy, 1/72, 72025
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed Good++
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Still factory sealed and widely considered the finest 1/72 Kingfisher kit ever made. Hard to find and out of production. Highly detailed with many cast resin parts including the engine and cockpit, fine recessed panel lines, optional parts for float and land-based version and more. Includes decals for multiple aircraft.
Revell Northrop F-89C Scorpion - Plus Scale Aircraft Metal Landing Gear and True Details Ejection Seats - 57th FIS Presque Isle Maine or 74th FIS Thule Greenland, 1/48, 85-4825
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good
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Includes Scale Aircraft Conversions #48119 Metal Main and Nose Landing Gear struts and True Details #48430 F-89J Ejection Seat Set (includes two seats). Both accessories are still factory sealed. The actual kit is a large 1/48 scale model that builds the first major production variant of the Scorpion, the 'C'. Features detailed cockpit and ejection seats, detailed gear wells, rocket loadout, optional position canopy and more. Has decals for both aircraft. Never started and inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions.
Frog English Electric BAC Canberra B(1) Mk.8 - or B(1)Mk. 12 South African or RAF, 1/72, F203
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG
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Like most Frog kits, this model has very fine panel lines only, which builds up to a realistic model. Includes parts and decals for either version: RAF No.88 Sqn, Wildenrath Germany 1960 or South African Air Force No.12 Sqn, Waterkloof, 1969. NOTE: this kit has minor, 'professional' quality subassembly as follows: seat to floor; wing gear doors in 'up' position. There is no other assembly. The aircraft has been inventoried with all parts present and include decals and instructions, however NOTE: the display stand is missing. Please NOTE also that the box displays much better than the 'very good' grade but it is rated as such because there is a closed split seam 2" long on the lower right.
Airfix Martin RB-57E or B-57B Canberra - 13th TBS 41st Air Division PACAF USAF 1965 B-57B / Detachment 1 460th TRW USAF Tan Son Nhut Air Base South Vietname 1966 RB-57E, 1/72, 05018
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG+
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1987 issue from the original molds. Features optional parts to build the rare recon version or US B-57B bomber, very fine surface detail, very good cockpit, optional position canopy, two crew figures, moving ailerons, rudder and elevators, optional position landing gear, optional bomb load, opened or closed speed brakes with detailed wells and more. Includes a very large decal sheet for both aircraft. Never started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions. The box cover aircraft is from 460/DET 1, a small but doubly-staffed unit that was directly subordinate in mission operations to 7th Air Force headquarters at Tan Son Nhut Air Base. Tan Son Nhut was part of the large combination air base and commercial international airport adjacent to the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon. RB-57E aircraft derived their nickname from their call-sign which was 'Patty Lynn.' There were only four aircraft assigned but each had two rotating air crews. Mission imagery (film) was processed by the 12th Reconnaissance Intelligence Technical Sq, which was also located at the 7th AF HQ complex. Nominally they were assigned to the Huge 460th Tactical Recon Wing, to which the 12th Tactical Recon Sq (RF-4Cs)was also assigned. (Thanks to John Barlow for the history!)
IHP Alsace French Battleship - Hull / Conversion - Imperial Hobby Productions - Bagged, 1/700, 270027
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG+
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This is the waterline hull only and is beautifully cast in high-definition resin. Like all IHP 'hull' models, you will need another kit complete it and either the Trumpeter or Pit-Road Richelieu will work perfectly. In some cases the Pit Road/Skywave sets of "Equipment For Navy Ships" works well for some of the finer details. The hull is in mint condition and that is all that is included. Measures 14" LOA. The Alsace class was a pair of fast battleships planned by the French Navy in the late 1930s in response to German plans to build two H-class battleships after the Second London Naval Treaty collapsed. The Alsace design was based on variants of the Richelieu class, and three proposals were submitted by the design staff. The proposed armament included nine or twelve 15 inch guns or nine 16 inch guns, but no choice was definitively made before the program ended. Two of the new ships were authorized on 1 April 1940. The first vessel was slated to be laid down at the No. 1 slipway at Saint-Nazaire after Joffre was to be launched in 1941, displacing Painlevé, which was not reallocated to another builder. The second member of the class was to be laid down in 1942 in the new No. 10 dock in Brest, which was to have been completed by that time. On 15 May 1940, the navy proposed four names for the first two ships for Darlan to select; these were Alsace, Normandie, Flandre, and Bourgogne. According to Garzke and Dulin, the government considered authorizing two more vessels, though no contracts were placed. Initial orders for building material were scheduled for mid-1940, but following the German victory in the Battle of France by June, all French naval construction programs came to an end.
IHP SMS Ersatz Yorck 1915 - (Ersatz Gneisenau / Ersatz Scharnhorst) - Imperial Hobby Productions, 1/700, 70018
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: NM
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This waterline model is beautifully cast in high-definition resin and contains 'all basic parts needed to complete a model of the Ersatz Yorck class as they would have appeared if completed to the 1915 design." Never started and the parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes instructions. The Ersatz Yorck class was a group of three battlecruisers ordered but not completed for the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy) in 1916. The three ships had originally been ordered as additions to the Mackensen class, but developments abroad, particularly the British Renown-class battlecruisers, led to the navy re-designing the ships. The primary change was an increase of the main battery from eight 35-centimeter (14 in) guns to eight 38 cm (15 in) weapons. Work on the first ship had already begun by the time the navy decided to re-design the ships, so the design staff was constrained by the need to use the material already assembled.The name derived from the fact that the lead ship was intended as a replacement (German: ersatz) for the armored cruiser Yorck, lost to mines in 1914, and it had been ordered under the provisional Ersatz Yorck. The other two ships, Ersatz Gneisenau, and Ersatz Scharnhorst, were considered to be replacements for the armored cruisers Gneisenau and Scharnhorst, both of which had been sunk at the Battle of the Falkland Islands, also in 1914.As with the Mackensens, the three ships of the Ersatz Yorck class were never completed. This was primarily due to shifting wartime construction priorities; U-boats were deemed more important to Germany's war effort later in the war, and so work on other types of ships was slowed or halted outright. The lead ship, Ersatz Yorck, was the only vessel of the three to have begun construction, though she was over two years from completion by the time work was abandoned.
Unicraft G-38 Light Cruiser, 1/72
Resin Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed NM
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Still factory tape sealed. Very rare model of this advanced Soviet design. Nicely detailed, limited-run resin kit. This aircraft history is from the website Hanger 47.com - The G-38 Light Cruiser was an experimental fighter designed and built by the P.I. Grokhovsky Design Bureau from 1934-1936. Conceived as a two-seat fighter-bomber, and powered by a pair of 900 hp Gnome-Rhone radial engines, it was to be armed with two ShVAK 20mm cannon and four ShKAS 7.62 mm machine guns, all installed at the wing roots or in the small fuselage pod that was faired into the leading edge of the wing. At least some of these forward firing weapons were employed in the narrow gap between the two propeller arcs, and did not have to be burdened with synchronization gear. On the three-seat version there were reportedly an additional two SHKAS guns firing to the rear and controlled by an aft gunner.In the mid-1930s, the concept of the “fighter-destroyer” was very popular in design and planning circles. The Grokhovsky G-38 was one of many examples of this class of fighter that were designed but never flown. It was a twin-boom, multi-seat heavy fighter comparable in concept to the Dutch Fokker G.1 or the Lockheed P-58 ‘Chain Lightning’ — although the American aircraft it is most often compared to is Lockheed’s P-38 Lightning of WWII. The G-38, however, was remarkable in a number of respects, most significant of which was the execution of the twin-boom concept. The Fokker and the Lockheed designs were large, bulky aircraft, as was the original take on the G-38. When Grokhovsky hired the young Pavel Ivensen to work on the project, however, the aircraft was transformed into something rather exciting. Ivensen completely redesigned the aircraft and what emerged, was a relatively small plane, with a wingspan of 13.4 meters (compared with 16 meters for the P-38 and 17 meters for the Fokker G.1) in a compact, aerodynamic twin-boom airframe.It was constructed almost entirely of wood, with metal parts restricted to the cockpit, engines, weapons and landing gear. The crew (reported alternately as either two or three men) were contained in a tapered teardrop-shaped pod faired into the broad wing center section, and the two Gnome-Rhone radial engines tapered to extremely slender booms. The G-38 had an incredibly low frontal area for an aircraft of its class, and a high wing loading for the time. Its maximum speed was estimated at 340 mph, quite fast for its time (1936). Most remarkable of all was the fact that the preliminary designs were approved in 1934, making the highly modern looking G-38 a contemporary of the Hawker Hurricane and Curtiss P-36. After two years’ work, it was canceled in 1936 on the eve of completion of the prototype. Josef Stalin had an abiding distrust in virtually everyone, and the leading lights among his aircraft designers were anything but exempt; in 1937, Grokhovsky was swept up in the purge which decimated the Soviet armed forces that year, and arrested on false charges. He would ultimately die in prison in 1946. Had it not been canceled in the months prior to the 1937 Purge, Grokhosky’s cutting edge G-38 might have equipped the Soviet Air Force with a revolutionary fighter on the eve of World War II.
Lindberg Douglas DC-8 Delta Air Lines - Cellovision Issue, 1/231, 453-49
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good++
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Rare kit from the late 1950s. This is the one and only issue with the old style Delta decals and box art by Ray Gaedke. This well molded kit has fine raised panel lines, can be built wheels up or down, comes with extensive & complete Delta decals and even a display stand. Never started. Inventoried 100% complete including decals and instructions. Please note that the box displays slightly better than the 'good++' rating but is graded as such because there is a long crease on the lower long side and a price tab pull there also that measures 1" x 1/2".
MPC Republic F-84 Thunderstreak Thunderbirds - With 5 Crewmen (Airfix Molds), 1/72, 2-0208
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed VG
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Still factory sealed but the seal has shrunk and draw the box top concave as shown. 1970s MPC kit from quality Airfix molds. Includes very colorful Thunderbirds decals as illustrated on the box art and 5 crew members.
Amodel Yak-38U Forger B Trainer, 1/72, 7258
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good+
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Nicely detailed with very fine recessed panel lines, good cockpit and more. Never started and the parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions.
Minicraft United B-377 Stratocruiser / United Airlines DC-6B / The Independence Douglas C-118 / British Airways Boeing 707 -420, 1/144, 14501
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed NM to VG+
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SALE!! Includes all four 1/144 scale model kits. The B-377 is still factory sealed. The other three are opened but they have not been started. All the parts are still sealed in the internal factory bags. Includes instructions and decals. The 707 has some very light damage to the decal backing paper but the actual transfers are fine.
Unicraft Airspeed AS.31 - (AS31), 1/72
Resin Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed NM
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Still factory tape sealed. Very rare model of this fascinating British design. Nicely detailed, limited-run resin kit. From the website 'unusual british aircraft.htm' - The British specification 35/35 was for an experimental high-speed aircraft with the option of turning it in to an 8-gun fighter, as in the Hurricane & Spitfire. There were four firms who replied to this specification the most un-conventional was the Airspeed A.S.31 which was a tractor monoplane in which the tailplane, on twin metal booms, carried the pilot in an eggshaped nacelle. No rudder or fin surface was indicated on the general arrangement drawing. Split flaps were fitted across the trailing edge of the wing between the booms, with wide-span ailerons outboard of the booms. A widetrack undercarriage was depicted . The aircraft was to be powered by a Rolls-Royce Merlin E engine. No details of its potential performance are recorded. Its wing span was 33 ft. and its length 29.5 ft. The other contenders were the Bristol 151 single seat monoplane, powered by a Bristol Hercules engine. Its speed, with 100-octane fuel, was estimated to be 440mph. The General Aircraft GAL.28 was a single-seat aircraft, powered by a single Hercules engine, with a wing of variable area. The Hawker design was a Hurricane variant. The specification not proceeded with.
Hasegawa RCAF 1962 Lancaster Search And Rescue - Canada, 1/72, E23
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed NM
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Very rare. Still factory sealed. Dated 2005 and widely considered the finest 1/72 Lancaster kit ever made. Features 249 pieces, resin part for a correct RCAF Search And Rescue version and much more.
Hasegawa A-4M Skyhawk - With Dragon PE Details - US Marines VMA-331 Bumblebees 1976 / VMA-214 Blacksheep 1977 /, 1/48, PT33
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG
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Limited edition issue from 2004 features 146 pieces, all recessed panel lines, full cockpit and gear well detail and much more. Never started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions.
ESCI US-3A Viking C.O.D - S-3A, 1/48, 4053
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good
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Very nicely detailed and molded large 1/48 scale US-3A features complete cockpit, detailed landing gear and arresting gear wells, optional position crew boarding door and weapons bay doors, drop-tank shaped 'Blivets' cargo containers and decals for VS-33. Never started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions.
Tamiya Austin Mini Cooper 1275S Mk.I, 1/24, 24235
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
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From 2001 and a high quality kit that is well detailed inside and out. Features complete engine and engine bay, opening hood, detailed front and rear driveline and suspension, full exhaust, complete interior and more. Never started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions.
Airfix Lockheed L-1011 Tristar - TWA Or Cathay Pacific, 1/144, 06178
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc+
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Type four logo issue from 1987. Kit features optional position cargo and passenger boarding doors, clear cabin and cockpit windows, optional position landing gear and display stand. There is a large, colorful decal sheet for both aircraft. Never started and inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions.
Azur Ro-37 bis - Spanish Civil War Nationalist Air Force / Uruguay / Italian Air Forces - (Ro37bis), 1/72, 014
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG
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High quality limited production kit. Features recessed panel lines, photoetched details and full decals. Never started and inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions.
Monogram P-38 Lockheed Lightning - P-38L / P-38M 2 Seat Night Fighter / P-38J / F-5B Lightning - Blue Box Issue, 1/48, PA97-200
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG+
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1966 second issue and the second issue of this classic kit. Very highly detailed and well molded for that time and includes all parts and decals to build any of four versions including 2-Seat Night Fighter, day fighter, 'Droop Snoot' with bomber nose and F5 photo recon version. There is no assembly but NOTE: the cockpit parts are neatly airbrushed interior green. There is no other painting. Inventoried complete with all parts, decals and instructions present. Some of the decals have typical age micro-cracking.
Revell Foose Custom Cadillac Eldorado, 1/25, 85-4435
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG
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2017 issue of this famous Foose Designs Custom and an excellent kit. Features 94 pieces, detailed V-8 engine and compartment, opening hood, detailed frame with suspension, exhaust & driveline, complete interior and much more. Never started. Most parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags; the ones that are no longer sealed have been inventoried complete. Includes decals and instructions.