Monogram B-25 Mitchell Big Cannon Plane - Four Star Issue, 1/70, PA7-98
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed Exc++
$89
Still factory sealed but the seal has split, typical of the old, brittle cello. Dated 1955. 2nd issue with "PA" price prefix instead of "P." Kit features rotating wheels and propellers, side gun packs and cannon/machine gun nose, crew members, underwing rockets and boarding ladder.
ESCI Fokker F27-MK 400 Friendship (F-27) - Air UK Civil Version, 1/72, 9111
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
$42
Unusual civil version. Very highly detailed and well molded model. Features complete cockpit, full interior with all bulkheads and passenger seating, rotating props and optional position entry door. The kit has never been started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions.
ESCI F-16 Cockpit, 1/12, A601
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc+
$89
Hard-to-find model is a very large scale 1/12 reproduction of the F-16 Fighting Falcon cockpit. This scale clearly allows detail down to the shape of each knob. Includes a display stand. Never started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions.
Airfix Hawker Siddeley HS-1182 Hawk - Ground Attack or Trainer Version, 1/72, 03026-1
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG+
$14
Features very good dual cockpits and pilots, very fine raised panel detail, gear well detail, optional position landing gear, two-piece canopy, extensive underwing stores with many choices and more. Never started. Factory sealed bag or inventoried 100% complete with all parts, decals and instructions.
KVZ Mi-6 Hook Aeroflot, 1/700
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed Exc+
$44
Still factory sealed. Rare close-to-1/72 Aeroflot 'Hook.' For KVZ, this is a very nicely molded and detailed kit with recessed and raised detail, full clear parts for the windows and a large and colorful decal sheet including the side striping. Could be made Russian Army but you must furnish your own red stars and numbers.
Revell NASA/McDonnell Gemini Spacecraft, 1/24, 85-1835
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG
$125
2000 reissue from the same molds as the classic 1965 kit. Large and very highly detailed kit of this historic spacecraft. Large scale (1/24) kit features full interior, detachable equipment module with internal details such as oxygen supply, fuel cells, batteries and electronics. Never started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions.
Aurora Aurora ATLANTIS Merchant Raider Factory Model, 1/456
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: No Box
$1400
In the 1950s and early 1960s the major model manufacturers would create factory-built and painted display models. These were intended for hobby shops to help stimulate sales. These were disposable items that were produced in very low numbers, so they are very rare today. Here is one of the rarest of the rare: The 'Rattlesnake of the Ocean' Merchant Sea Raider Atlantis factory build up by Aurora. The unbuilt kit is among the most valuable and rare Aurora single kits, making the factory built display much more so. This one is in excellent original condition. The painting is 1950s professional quality as is the gluing. The glue has held up well and all parts of the ship are very solid. The ship is very clean. The original paint is almost flawless with some light scratches on the port side. The 'ATLANTIS' decals are perfect. The stack 'K' starboard decal is mint; the port one is missing 2mm of the white top on one leg of the 'K'. The factory cardboard wood-tone base is 100% intact with typical corner splits on the bends and edge wear. The removable covers display is mint with all 10 gun/hanger covers present. The kit is now 100% complete. It was missing 4 small parts which I am providing. I took them from an original Atlantis kit, so they are 100% correct. (they are the propeller, 'Y' rear crane, rear flag and rudder) Overall, this is an excellent and rare investment piece for the advanced Aurora collector. Shipping insurance required. From modeler Stephen Payne: Recommend that the builder or collector of this kit add the following books to their collection-The German Raider Atlantis by Captain Bernhard Rogge & Wolfgang Frank & Sea Raider Atlantis, Story of a German Surface Raider by Ulrich Mohr & A.V. Sellwood. The first book is by the ATLANTIS commander, Kapitan zur See Bernhard Rogge. He oversaw the transformation and outfitting in Bremen and captained the ship during her 602 day operational voyager which sank or captured 22 ships totaling 144,384 t (142,104 long tons). Rogge also was one of the few German officers of flag rank who was not arrested by the Allies after the war due to the way he had exercised his command of Atlantis. Captain J. Armstrong White, captain of the British CITY OF BAGHDAD, which Atlantis sank in July 1941, stated, "His treatment of prisoners left respect, instead of hatred."The second book is by the ATLANTIS First Officer, Ulrich Moher. Both books read much the same as the events related are the same, but it is interesting to see these events from the two perspectives. Captain White (see above) wrote the foreword to Atlantis, the Story of a German Surface Raider, written by U. Mohr & A. V. Sellwood.The German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis (HSK 2), known to the Kriegsmarine as Schiff 16 (SHIP 16) and to the Royal Navy as Raider-C, was a converted merchant vessel to German Hilfskreuzer (auxiliary cruiser) used for commerce raiding. Commerce raiders did not seek to engage warships, but rather attack enemy merchant shipping; the measures of success are tonnage destroyed (or captured) and time spent "at large" holding up enemy resources. Atlantis had the longest raiding career of any German commerce raider in either world war.
Polar Lights The Munsters (ex-Aurora), 5013
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed NM
$34
Still factory sealed.
Maintrack Supermarine 510, 1/72, PX-006
Vacuform Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed
$39
Very high quality vac kit. Highly detailed moldings, full decals and metal seat, struts, wheels and other parts. The kit has never been started. The parts that were factory sealed are still in the sealed bags. The parts that were not factory sealed have been inventoried complete including decals and instructions.
Hasegawa Nakajima Ki-49-I Type 100 Donryu Helen - Heavy Bomber - (Ki49), 1/72, CP10
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
$36
Features 102 pieces, recessed panel lines, interior detail, optional position bomb bay doors, bomb load and more. Never started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions.
Hasegawa Hughes AH-64A Apache, 1/72, 808
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed NM
$14
Still factory sealed. Very finely molded and detailed kit.
AMT Lockheed AC-130H Spectre Hercules, 1/72, 8690
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good++
$115
Highly detailed with (2) M61A Vulcan 20mm rotary cannons, (1) 40mm Bofors Cannon and (1) 105mm Howitzer, complete cockpit and full interior, ecm pods, engine infrared shields, Suu-4A pods, ALQ-87 pods and full decals. All recessed detail. The kit has never been started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions. The canopy has been factory painted and is in perfect condition.
Italeri Junkers JU-86 - Civil Version Lufthansa or Swissair, 1/72, 029
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed VG+
$28
Still factory sealed. Nicely detailed and molded. Includes detailed cockpit, positionable pilots, cabin floor and bulkheads, optional position boarding door, optional position landing gear and decals for both air lines. With decals for both air lines.
Airfix Vickers Vanguard Turbo-Prop, 1/144, 03171
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed VG++
$44
Still factory sealed. Very nicely molded molded kit with optional position cabin entry doors, clear cockpit and cabin windows, rotating props, detailed gear and front and rear passenger boarding stair assemblies. Decals are for British Airways. The Vanguard was a 1959 high speed early turbo-prop airliner that carried 139 passengers.
Hasegawa Kugisho P1Y1-S Ginga Frances Type11 Night Fighter 302nd Group, 1/72, CP101
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed Exc
$32
Still factory sealed. From 1996. Very nicely detailed and molded kit with 77 pieces.
Revell Lockheed Electra II Los Angeles Dodgers 1961, 1/115, HD-255
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG++
$395
Very rare. Special issue made by Revell just for the Concessions dealer for the LA Dodgers Inc and only available through them. The kit has never been started. Internal factory sealed bag or inventoried 100% complete including decals and instructions.
Renwal Curtiss Goshawk F11C-2 Aeroskin - (F112C) USS Saratoga, 1/48, 282-149
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed VG++
$68
Still factory sealed but the seal has split and drawn the box concave. This is one of Renewal's famous Aeroskin kits, and a rare large one in 1/48. Features markings for the aircraft of "High Hat Squadron", VF-1B commander Seligman aboard the USS Saratoga in the early 1930s. The model has an injection molded inner structure of ribs and stringers like a real aircraft, then the modeler covers it with provided authentic pre-colored Aeroskin fabric. There is little painting needed as elaborate finishes are printed directly on the Aeroskin covering. This results a very realistic and colorful model.
Revell Bomarc IM-99 Missile with Launcher - History Makers Issue, 1/47, 8602
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good
$69
1982 issue. From the molds for the rare 'S' kit from the late 1950s. Features fully operational launcher. Never started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions.
LS A6M2-N Rufe IJN Seaplane - with Beaching Trolly - (A6M2N), 1/75, 4
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc+
$22
Very early LS kit with first logo and old box art. Even on this early kit (#4), the legendary LS attention to detail is evident with recessed panel lines and fine rivet detail. Features opening canopy, and extending/retracting flaps and movable ailerons. Includes nicely molded beaching dolly. 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. LS was one of the earliest Japanese manufacturers to produce very high quality kits. Some of these molds are still in use by Hasegawa as testament to the LS detail and accuracy.
Aurora Lightning P-38 - Famous Fighters of All Nations, 1/48, 99-98
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good++
$125
Rare. Third issue with rectangular 'Aurora Line' logo and Famous Fighters of All Nations. Molded in correct gloss medium blue plastic and clear with rectangular clear stand. Inventoried 100% complete with all parts, decals and instructions. NOTE: decal were previously stuck to the instructions in several small areas. The damage is to the backing paper - the actual transfers are 'excellent.'