1/40 152-98 SNAP 105mm Gun Emplacement - Annie Oakley Howitzer - With Emplacement and 5 GIs (Ex Adams / UPS / Life-Like)
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good
From well detailed Adams molds and builds an complete mini-diorama. Features detailed gun which elevates and has moving left and right trails, molded base and sandbags, radio, full shells and casings, ammo box and crew of 5 action GIs. Never started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions. These molds must have had a very interesting history. The molds were cut in 1955 or 1956, either at Adams or by one of Revell's contractors. It appeared to be part of the Adams/Revell 1/40 line but Adams never issued the kit. UPC (Universal Power Master) had use of these molds in the 1960s are perhaps the early 1970s; however, the molds were probably in Japan as most if not all the UPC production occurred there. Around this point, SNAP plastics of Hillside, New Jersey acquired this kit along with many of the other ex-Adams military molds. While the UPC issues say 'Made in Japan' the SNAP issues say nothing of the origin of the manufacture; so perhaps they were made in New Jersey. Things get even more interesting with the Life-Like issue. How Life-Like came across the molds is unfortunately unknown but it may have been in a bulk-purchase of molds from SNAP since there were in the same general part of the country. This is simply conjecture, however.
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