Lindberg 1/60 P.T. Boat (PT Boat) by Paul Lindberg, 701-198

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Lindberg 1/60 P.T. Boat (PT Boat) by Paul Lindberg, 701-198 plastic model kit

1/60 701-198 Lindberg P.T. Boat (PT Boat) by Paul Lindberg

Plastic Model Kit,   Box Condition: Exc++

Early hardbox issue from the 1950s. Fantastic Ray Gaedke artwork. Very large and nicely detailed kit with 122 parts. This early issue still features metal stanchions and metal hand rails. This kit has never been started. It is either still in the internally sealed factory bag or has been inventoried 100% complete with all parts, decals and instructions. This kit has a fascinating history. It was originally produced by Varney in 1944 as a multi-media model. It was novel at the time as it had a wooden hull and cardstock deck but all injection molded tenite deck parts and details. That made it one of the first US ship kits to have extensive injection molded parts. But the world was not ready for this type of kit and dealers were hesitant to carry it - which resulted in low sales. Gorden Varney sold the molds for the kit to O-lin (Olsen and Lindberg). O-Lin reworked the kit using a vacuform hull, cardstock and tenite parts. When Lindberg took full control of O-lin, he went to an injection molded hull, colorful cardstock 'wood' deck and all polystyrene parts for the first issue. The second issue was all plastic with the metal stanchions and hand rails - and that is this kit.

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