Cleveland Globe Swift - 30 Inch Wingspan Balsa Flying Aircraft, IT-96
Wood Model Kit, Box Condition: Good-
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The kit came from a long time collector of 1930s and 1940s models. 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, cut nose block, finished hardwood thrust button, finished main & tail wheels, factory carved propeller blank, metal stock, clear windshield meterial and more. The model has not been started. 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, called 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 'Aviations 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.
Aurora Cessna 310, 1/62, 283-50
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc++
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1963 issue from ex-Comet molds. The box has amazing color and gloss. Neatly molded with all recessed panel lines, clear side and front windows, tip tanks, rotating propellers, display stand and full pinstripe decals. The kit has never been started. Inventoried 100% complete including decals and instructions. NOTE: the box displays better than the 'excellent++' grade but is rated as such because the is old tape residue on the bottom of the two long sides. Aurora had started a line of inexpensive 29 cent kits in about 1957. The line was a success, and it was expanded. The line grew again when Aurora purchased the Comet molds, as most of Comet's line was very small scale kits, many of them civil aircraft like this one. It appears that Aurora was encouraged by the sale of the ex-Comet civil aircraft, as it expanded the line with it's own molds in the early 1960s.
Italeri TWO AB-204 B Rescue Helicopter - Royal Dutch Navy / Austrian Army / Italy SAR, 1/72, 1201
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG++
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SALE!! Includes two kits in the one box shown. Kit #1 is never started and inventoried complete with all parts, including decals and instructions. NOTE: Kit #2 has minor and 'professional' quality subassembly as follows: cockpit and rotor hub. There is no other assembly. Inventoried 100% complete with all parts, decals and instructions present. Dated 2000. Well detailed model that features a highly detailed cockpit and passenger cabin, optional position cabin doors, very good rotor head & gearbox assembly and more. Includes paint guide and decals for the three helicopters listed.
ESCI GMC M6 Truck With 50 WWII US Infantry Figures, 1/72, 8610
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
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Hard-to-find and nicely molded and detailed 1/72 scale armor kit that includes 50 soldiers. Never started and inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions.
ESCI Panzer IV With 50 German Afrika Corps Figures, 1/72, 8606
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
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Hard-to-find and nicely molded and detailed 1/72 scale armor kit that includes 50 soldiers. Never started and inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions.
Dragon LCM(3) Landing Craft - With Water Diorama Base, 1/72, 7257
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc+
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Very finely molded and highly detailed kit that features 161 pieces, an excellent and large plastic diorama base of water and a beachhead, highly detailed LMC(3) with photoetched details and optional position front loading/unloading door, crew members, soldiers, landing barricades and more. Includes a comprehensive decal sheet which can be used to make almost any LCM. Additionally, five-view, full color paint guides are included for Normandy 1944 and Iwo Jima 1945. Never started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions.
Realspace Command Module Interior - (For Monogram or Revell 1/32 Scale Kit), 1/32
Resin Model Kit, Box Condition: NM
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This is a very well detailed, high-definition resin cast detail set for the interior of the famous Monogram 1/32 Command Module kit (or the Revell reissue). Never started and inventoried complete with all parts and includes instructions.
Airfix A300B Airbus Eastern Airlines - (A300), 1/144, 60515
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG+
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1979 USAirfix issue of this well detailed A300 with hard-to-find Eastern Airlines 'Hockey Stick' decals. Features optional position landing gear, good engine intake and exhaust detail, optional position entry, emergency and baggage doors and more. The kit has never been started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions.
Hasegawa Grumman X-29A, 1/72, 620
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
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Famous forward-swept, dynamically-unstable 'X' plane that helped pioneer digital stability flight systems. Very high quality kit with excellent fit and all recessed panel line details. The kit has never been started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions.
OKB-144 Tupolev Tu-104A - Aeroflot Civil (Held Several World Records In 1957) / Personal Aircraft of Marshal Zhukov / Soviet Air Force VIP Transport Chkalovskaya Airbase, 1/144, 101
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG+
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Rare early 'Camel' in the early low-capacity seating configuration in 1/144 scale. This limited production kit has 71 injection molded parts (including clear parts), about 30 photoetched brass parts, detailed optional position landing gear and more. Includes paint guide and a large, extensive decal sheet for the three aircraft listed. Never started and inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions. At the start of the 1950s, Aeroflot needed a new and modern airliner with better capacity and performance. Tupolev OKB developed a design that used the wings, engines, and tail surfaces of the Tu-16 but had a wider, pressurized fuselage that held 50 passengers. The prototype first flew on June 17, 1955 with the production aircraft flying on November 5, 1955. The Tu-104A was powered by two Mikulin AM-3 axial-flow turbojet engines and had good performance; by 1957 the aircraft held many civil world records. It was the second jet airliner to enter service with the DH Comet being first; however, when the Comet was grounded from 1956 to 1958, the Tu-104A was the only jet airliner in operation world-wide. The first aircraft had a crew of two with a radio operator as the third; however, this was soon permanently reduced to just a pilot and co-pilot. The aircraft was not easy to fly, which Tupolev knew ahead of time because of the experience with the Badger bomber. Tu-104 pilots first trained on the Il-28 bomber, then flew airmail in unarmed Tu-16 Badgers between Moscow and Sverdlovsk painted in Aeroflot colors . Pilots with previous Tu-16 experience transitioned into the Tu-104 with relative ease. The Tu-104 was considered difficult to fly, as it was heavy on controls and quite fast on final approach, and at low speeds displayed a tendency to stall, a feature common with highly swept wings. While the Tu-104 was used by Aeroflot through the 1960s and 1970s, the safety record was poor and 16 of 96 aircraft were lost in accidents. Many Tu-104 systems were unreliable, the aircraft was heavy and very unstable with poor control response and a tendency to Dutch roll. Poor design of the wings resulted in a propensity to stall with little or no warning. The aircraft had a dangerous tendency to pitch up violently before stalling and quickly enter an unrecoverable dive. Due to the fear of stalling the aircraft, crews would fly approaches well above the recommended approach speed, landing between 170–190 mph, which is over 30 mph higher than recommended. At least two accidents were attributed to the pitch-up phenomenon, prompting changes to the design of the aircraft and operating procedures; but the problem remained. Aeroflot retired the Tu-104 in March 1979 following a fatal accident at Moscow, but several aircraft were transferred to the Soviet military, which used them as staff transports and to train cosmonauts in zero gravity. After a military Tu-104 crash in February 1981 killed 50 people (of which 17 were senior army and naval staff), it was permanently removed from service.
MPC Hogan's Heros World War II Jeep, 1/25, 402-200
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
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Original issue dated 1968 and released in conjunction with Hogan's Heros producer, Bing Crosby Productions. Not the common AMT reissue. Can be built as the Stalag 13 Jeep, Civil or Custom. Includes parts and markings for all three versions. Well detailed kit with full motor, removable hood, detailed suspension, rubber wheels, complete interior, jerry can, rifle, machine gun, civil top and tail gate and more. Never started. Inventoried and NOTE: missing the optional cylinder head and the square base for the passengers seat. Otherwise complete with all other parts, decals and instructions present.
Academy T-38A Talon - (ex-Fujimi), 1/48, 1617
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc+
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From quality Fujimi molds. The kit has never been started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions.
Monogram Phantom Mustang F-51D -Monogram Classics Issue ( P-51D), 1/32, 85-0067
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG
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Monogram Classics issue from the year 2000. It is made from the original molds of the great 1960s kit, which is widely considered to be one of the best visible airplane action kits ever made. Features a full cut away model with interior detail. Buttons on the base activate two motors that make the prop spin, and the main gear and tail wheel retract and extend and the main and tail wheel doors close automatically. Two other levers on the base drop the wing bombs. The canopy opens and closes to show the super detailed cockpit. It is even molded in the original issue colors; red, zinc chromate interior green, black, silver and clear. The kit has never been started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags including decals, both electric motors and instructions.
Airfix Saunders-Roe SR-53 - T2 Bagged Logo - (SR53), 1/72, 1407
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed Excellent
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Still factory sealed. Rare 1950s issue with a 'very good' condition second-logo header.
Frog Douglas B-66 Destroyer - (ex Comet), 1/130, 379P
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG
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Rare model that was issued in 1956. Frog most likely leased these molds or bought the kit parts directly from Comet. It is finely molded with all recessed panel lines and clear canopy. Includes the correct clear two-piece 'teardrop' base Frog stand and two intact glue capsules; one is loose and one is stuck to the back (fortunately) of the decal sheet. Never started and inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions.
Hasegawa F-16C Night Falcon - USAF 1st Aircraft, 1/48, V8
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good++
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Very highly detailed and features all fine recessed panel lines, detailed cockpit and wheel wells, optional position canopy and boarding ladder, your choice of several full underwing load outs and more. Includes decals for the Night Falcon. Never started and the parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions. The decals are still in the factory sealed bag and appear to be 'mint'; however NOTE: the instructions and paint guide have age foxing but are fully usable.
Revell Class 214 Submarine U-Boot, 1/144, 05056
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good+
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Dated 2007 and from all new molds. Features waterline or full hull build, recessed hull detail, conning tower with optional raised or lowered periscope, optronic mast, antenna mast, exhaust mast & more, transparent parts for running lights, rotating propeller, four separately molded hydroplanes, 2 movable hull diving planes, separate forward hatch/side door, display stand and more. Includes decals with hull draft lines/numbers and markings for three different versions: HDW-Test version, Greek Navy and South Korean Navy. Never started and inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions.
Balsa USA 1/4 Scale Piper J-3 Cub - 108 Inch Wingspan R/C Aircraft, BA438
Wood Model Kit, Box Condition: Good++
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**SAVE! Pick up in Lexington, KY and eliminate all shipping charges. I can meet you at our local Panera Bread for delivery.** This is a very large quarter scale Cub that you build from premium quality balsa, hardwood, plywood and spruce. It features precision jig and die-cut parts, molded ABS plastic cowling, rugged pre-bent wire landing gear, complete hardware package, scale decals and much more. Includes super detailed rolled plans and step-by-step photo illustrated instructions. Never started. Inside, everything is exactly as it left the factory. The parts that were factory sealed in bags are still sealed; the parts that were never factory sealed have been inventoried complete. Includes all paperwork. NOTE: this kit came in a very sturdy and thick cardboard box. It will ship in that box wrapped in thick brown paper. If you wish for it to be placed inside another box, let me know in the 'comments' section of checkout but be aware that additional shipping charges will apply.
Revell Vostok Russia's First Spacecraft, 1/24, H1844
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
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1998 issue of the classic 1969 kit. This large 1/24 scale model is a Well detailed kit of Major Yuri Gagarin's spacecraft. Features detachable crew compartment, ejection seat and Cosmonaut figure. Molded in metallic silver and clear and includes display stand. The kit has never been started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes instructions. Gagarin's flight was the first of 6 successful Vostok launches from the secret space center at Baikonur. Gagarin made one orbit in 108 minutes, which was enough to make him the first man in space. Titov followed in Vostok 2 and made 17 orbits. Other launches featured 4 mile passes in orbit, and Vostok 6 featured the first Woman Astronaut, Valentina Tereshkova. It is interesting that Vostok did not have attitude control for correct placement when re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The sphere was designed with the weight off-center, so it would automatically swing into position during the heat of reentry.
Renwal 1910 Stanley Steamer - O Scale, 1/48, 132
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed Exc
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Still factory sealed and from the late 1960s/early 1970s. This is one of a wonderful and extensive line of 1/48 car kits from Renwal. They are perfect as a stand-alone models or for use in 1/48 dioramas and O Scale train layouts. Renwal did an excellent job on engineering & detail and they feature full interior, body and chassis parts molded in the proper colors as well as clear, chrome and/or brass plated and with real rubber tires. There is no painting required. The instructions include a history of the automobile.