1/60 701M-249 Lindberg Motorized P.T. Boat - (PT Boat / Patrol Boat)
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good
Rare 1950 hardbox motorized issue with fantastic Ray Gaedke artwork. Very large and nicely detailed kit for that time featuring an electric motor, battery holder, contacts and three-prop drive, adjustable rudders, complete deck fittings, detailed guns and torpedo tubes, deck crew, decals, flag sheet and more. Could be converted to R/C operation if you wished. Molded in gloss gray plastic. The kit has never been started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals, flag sheet 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 Lindberg issue. The second issue was all plastic with the metal stanchions and hand rails but the round Lindberg logo. The third Lindberg issue has the square logo and is motorized and the stanchions are plastic. This kit has a factory-built motor; some later ones came with a kit motor that you had to assemble. Lindberg had a seemingly endless amount of minor variations to this box design while retaining the same art. At least three of the variations center around the announcement that it is "MOTORIZED."
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