MPC Lockheed C-130 E Hercules MAC, 1/72, 1-4502
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good+
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Kit has many operating features and details including full interior including cargo bay, opening cargo doors and optional position cabin doors, extended or retracted landing gear, moving control surfaces, rotating wheels and props, detailed cockpit and optional position boarding stairs. This kit has not been started. NOTE: missing optional part #43. The kit has an option for a navigational glass on the top cockpit or without one; the 'with' option part is gone. However, if you want that port, simply drill a small hole in the 'non-port' part. Inventoried with all other parts present and with decals and instructions.
Revell Civil War Navy Pistol With Display Stand, 1/1, 8352
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed VG
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Still factory sealed but the seal has drawn the box top concave as shown. 1985 issue with simulated wood grain handle, revolving cylinder, movable hammer and trigger and molded in charcoal and brown. The box top photo is of the actual built model.
Model Shipways Roger B Taney Revenue Cutter, 1/77, 2006
Wood and Metal Model Kit, Box Condition: Good++
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Classic high quality Model Shipways kit of this beautiful and historical revenue cutter. Measures 19.25 inches long and 13.75 inches high when built. Features accurate precarved hardwood hull, scored hardwood deck and tapered/non tapered dowels, and a heavy bag with many metal fittings. Has full size plans, instruction sheet, 3 types of rigging material and full rigging instructions. The kit has never been started. The parts that were factory sealed (fittings and small wooden parts) are still in the sealed bags. The parts that were not factory sealed (large wooden parts) have been inventoried complete including instructions and several plans sheets.
Monogram Twin Mustang F-82G - Day or Night Fighter, 1/72, 7501
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good++
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1973 Monogram/Mattel release. Very finely molded and detailed kit with traditional high Monogram quality. Features good dual cockpit detail, opening and closing canopies, detailed gun bay with removable service hatch, detailed gear wells, optional radar, drop tank and rocket parts and markings for both day (silver scheme) and night fighter (black) version. The kit has never been started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions. NOTE: molded in silver but three small parts are black. Those three are from a later issue of this same kit.
AMT Boeing KC-135R Stratotanker, 1/72, 8909
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed VG++
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Still factory sealed. Hard to find 'R' variant of the venerable USAF refueling aircraft. Includes full cockpit and interior detail, optional position crew and cargo doors, four CFM-56 engines, complete boom station and optional position boom.
Trimaster Focke-Wulf Fw-190A-8R11 Nachtjager, 1/48, MA-7
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed VG++
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Highly detailed injection molded kit with cast metal details and two photoetch sheets. The kit has never been started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions.
Monogram Curtiss P-36A - Blue Box Issue, 1/72, PA145-70
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed Exc++
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Still factory sealed. First issue from 1967. Very finely molded with excellent detail and traditional Monogram quality. The Hawk P-36A has the dubious distinction of fighting on both sides and for more countries than any other plane in history during the opening years of WWII. This Hawk, one in a long progression of famous fighter aircraft, was the winner of a 1935 competition. The USAA Corps received the first aircraft in April of 1938 and the French ordered 100 aircraft in May of the same year. French Hawks shot down just over 30 German planes during the battle for France. The Germans captured the aircraft and sold them to Finland. Others were captured when the Germans overran Norway. In all over 800 Hawks were produced and served in China, Netherlands East Indies, Portugal, Great Britain, Thailand, Argentina and Peru. Although an excellent fighter in 1935, the Hawk was outclassed by the time the war started but when flown properly still gave a good account of itself.
Air Lines Dewoitine D-520C - (ex-Frog D520C), 1/72, 3901
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc++
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Purchased new on December 12, 1965 at Value City in Cleveland, Ohio. Well molded for that time in silver and clear. Features separately molded ailerons, elevators and rudder. This kit has never been started. Inventoried 100% complete with all parts, decals and instructions. Box art is by the famous Jo Kotula who did 1930s covers for the magazine 'Model Airplane News' and later the Aurora box art of the late 1950s. Air Lines kits are all Frog molds that the Lines Brothers imported to the USA between 1964-1966. The kits, decals and instructions were made in England, then imported to the USA where Testors created the boxes with the colorful trading cards on the back. There are one or two trading cards on each box which show the boxart but not the advertising/logo. Some kits contain a Testors color painting guide also, but it is not specific to any model.
Frog Me-262A Red Series, 1/72, F248
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
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Includes decals for both aircraft (1st Staffel/1 Grouppe/KG51 or 3rd Staffel/JG7 1945) and a color painting guide on the box bottom. As with most Frog kits, this one has fine panel line detail and no rivets, so it builds up to a realistic model. This kit has not been started. The parts are either still in the factory sealed bag or inventoried 100% complete with all parts, decals and instructions. Frog is considered the father of injection molded model kits. The Lines Brothers opened Frog in 1932, capitalizing on the fever caused by Lindberg's solo transatlantic flight. Almost overnight the western populations became 'Air-Minded', and anything aviation was in high demand. Frog created a quality line of stick and tissue rubber powered aircraft and gliders as well as innovative ready-to-fly rubber powered aircraft that required no assembly. The box even contained a built-in rubber motor winder and fuselage holder. Model airplane flight competitions were popular in Great Britain, and one category was 'Rise Off the Ground', or ROG. By changing this to 'Flies Right Off the Ground', the FROG name was born. In 1936 Frog created a line of injection molded plastic models, the first such kit line in the world (Hawk sold a line of injection molded aircraft models in 1934 but they were factory assembled and painted). Named 'Penguin' after the bird that does not fly, the kits were innovative beyond the means of production. At a time when models were simply built by wingspan, the Penguin line was a constant 1/72 scale. Furthermore, a large 1/72 Short S.30 Empire class flying boat contained a full interior and lights! A line of accessories such as AA guns, tractors, hanger, ambulance, sound locator, searchlights and lighting kits were quickly added to the line. WWII caused a pause in production. After the war the box color changed from silver to green, and Penguin kits were also marketed in the USA. Production ended in 1950. Frog quickly expanded and released the Red, Orange, Black, Green, Gold Token, Spin and Comet series as well as Trail Blazers and several others. It is noteworthy that while most manufacturers in the 1940s/50 were making toy-like models, Frog attempted to make very realistic models. For example, 'detailing' kits with excessively large rivets was once very popular. Frog ignored this trend and continued to mold aircraft with fine panel lines and no rivets. As a result, Frog kits can be built into very realistic replicas. Production ended in the late 1970s, but Frog molds are still in use around the world.
Aurora The Blue Knight of Milan, 1/8, 472
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed NM
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Still sealed with the factory tape on both long ends. 1960s Aurora of Great Britain issue with brilliant box art. Kit contains large 1/8 scale knight, base, plume and instructions. In the mid 1950s, Aurora bought three 'Knight' molds from Crown Plastics and issued them as K1, K2 and K3. These were the very first Aurora figure kits and they sported the 1956-only rectangular 'Northern Lights' logo with the correct 'Crown Line' logo inside it. The sales success of the Knight prompted Aurora to launch an entire line of figure kits. The knights themselves stayed in production long after many other figures were discontinued.
Matchbox Handley Page Halifax GRII Series IA / B.MkI/II - 58 Sq Coastal command Wales 1943 / 76 Sq RAF Yorks (P/O Christoper Cheshire's Aircraft) / 10th Sq RAF Yorks 1942, 1/72, PK-604
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG++
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Very nicely molded kit with very fine raised panel lines and many recessed lines as well. Features detailed cockpit, crew, rotating turrets, wheels and propellers, parts for all three versions, optional position bomb bay doors and a painting guide and decals for the three aircraft listed. The kit has never been started. Inventoried 100% complete including decals and instructions.
ESCI General Dynamics F-111A Aardvark - 474th TFW / 428th TFS / 429 TFS, 1/72, 9068
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc+
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Still factory sealed. A very well molded kit that features very fine all recessed panel line detail, very good cockpit, optional position canopy (rare for an F-111 on this scale), wings that swing, eight M-117 bombs and two AN/ALQ-87 pods. Contains decals for three aircraft. The kit has never been started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions.
Monogram First Lunar Landing Apollo 11 - Astronauts on the Moon, 1/48, 5503
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed Exc+
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This is the second issue (1979 - 10th Anniversary Commemorative Issue) of this classic kit. Perhaps the highest quality kit available of the Apollo 11 moon landing scene. Rare kit includes LEM, moon base, solar wind detector, seismometer, flag, astronauts, laser reflector, stereo camera and TV Camera. Still factory sealed.
Cleveland Martin B-26 Marauder 'Master Kit' Balsa Flying Model Airplane Kit, 1/16, SF-135
Wood Model Kit, Box Condition: Fair
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Dated 1944. Rare flying kit with over 48 inch wingspan and ideal for electric power and conversion to RC. Very highly detailed and complete for that time. This is the deluxe 'Master' version including dope and paint in glass bottles (5 big bottles of 'Cleveland' label dope, still protected in the original internal box), high quality balsa printwood and wooden stock, machine cut engine cowls, completely cut and formed main and nose gear, preformed hardwood rubber motor retainers, clear celluloid for windows, hardwood thrust button print sheets, balsa blocks as required and covering material. The kit has never been started and has been inventoried complete with the contents listed above and two giant sheets of 'excellent' condition plans/instructions. The box top is rough with tape as shown; the right short side panel is missing. The bottom box (tray) includes all of the special inserts but also has a great deal of wear & tape on it, and is missing the left short side. NOTE: this kit must be shipped insured. 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) and 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 this time. Some of these models flew and flew well, but they all had one thing in common - they 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-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 'Aviation's 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.
Fador EMF 30 Racer, 1/16
Wood Model Kit, Box Condition: Good
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Rare kit from April of 1950. Big, large scale kit measuring 8.5 inches long when assembled. Well detailed for that time. Features a large number of die-cut, machined and saw-cut wooden parts and superb cast metal grill/radiator, wheels and steering wheel. Also includes metal parts, metal stock and die-cut cardstock. Includes superb, large full-size plans with many elevation drawings, numerous detail drawings and templates, extensive and detailed text instructions, painting guide and even ideas for how to upholster your car using the correct tufting pattern! The kit has never been started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes instructions. The EMF 30 was produced by the EMF company which stood for Everett, Metzger and Flanders - the three owners. But in the early days it was jokingly referred to as 'The Every Morning Fix It" and "Every Mechanical Failure." Each car came complete with a catalog numbering every single part, which made replacements easily obtainable. The racer engine was four cylinders cast in pairs and turned out a very respectable 30 horsepower. It had a 106 inch wheelbase and held 15 gallons. All cars were painted EMF Red and were a sight to behold. The racer had a three speed transmission on rear axle, geared to 3.25 to 1 inch high, magneto ignition, 32 x 3.5 inch tires, thermo siphon cooling (no pump) and weighed in at 1800 pounds. At Walla Walla Washington Country Fair in 1911 the EMF racer beat a Wright Biplane in two of three races. It made a five lap circuit in 5 minutes 26.5 seconds. It was the fastest time of any car or aircraft at the competition. Streamlining is not new - in those days Grandpa's hot rod was a regular stock car stripped of anything that would give wind resistance- fenders, horn, windshield, etc. Fador was another maker of big 1/16 classic cars and competed with the bigger Hudson Miniatures. Fador called the line 'Smallersters' and the design & parts breakdown of the kits are very similar. The full name was Fador Mfg. Company and the address was 501E. Clinton St., Elmira, NY. Hudson Miniatures, launched in 1948, apparently beat Fador to the market by at least a year or more. Hudson's national success probably lead Fador to choose the same subject (antique cars) and in the same scale, 1/16. Hudson snatched up the most obvious classic automobiles for kit subjects, forcing Fador to select very carefully. Fortunately, they chose well and they are still the only models ever made of these subjects. There is no record of Fador making any plastic kits; the introduction and overwhelming popularity of the Revell/Gowland Highway Pioneers and the models that quickly followed probably drove them out of the market. This was the fate of most wooden kit manufacturers who did not make the transition. In 1949 the Fador line consisted of a 1909 Hupmobile Roadster, 1904 Cadillac Runabout, 1905 REO 4 Passenger Runabout and one kit that was "3 In 1' - it made one of the following: 1909 EMF Single Rear Seater, 1909 EMF Touring or EMF Roadster. The Baker Electric kit was introduced in 1950 and possibly others as well.
AMT 1969 Dodge Daytona Charger - 2 in 1 Kit, 1/25, 6278
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG+
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From 1990. Very well detailed kit with highly detailed engine that can be built stock, 2x4 carbs or blown 2x4, full interior with optional instrumentation, several tire and wheel choices, molded underside detail with separate rear suspension and exhaust, detailed engine compartment with opening hood, optional hood scoop choices, three different color 'Daytona' rear stripes and more. 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.
Saito FA-90R3 Three Cylinder Radial - Gas Engine for RC Flying Model Aircraft
Metal Model Kit, Box Condition: Good+
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Absolutely new in the box and a beautiful work of art- Saito's three cylinder radial engine. Never run, mounted or even displayed out side the box. Always stored in a climate controlled environment. 100% complete with the engine and carb in the original factory grease and plastic bag, glow plugs, glow wires, factory sealed small tools, larger tools in the factory bag, decals and all paperwork. This engine must be shipped insured.
Airfix Curtiss P-40E or Kittyhawk IA Craftmaster Issue - USAAF or RAF, 1/72, 2-46
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good+
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Colorful and unique Craftmaster artwork with black 'short' end panels. Includes markings and paint guide for both versions. The kit has never been started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions.
Guillows Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress - 45 Inch Wingspan, 1/28, 2002
Wood and Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed VG
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Still factory sealed but the seal has drawn the box top concave as shown. Perhaps the largest scale (1/28) B-17 kit available. Kit can be built as a scale static display model, with gas engines for U/Control or could be modified to fly on todays small electric motors and remote control. Features all moving control surfaces, plastic cowlings and fairing, plastic regular tail gun or Cheyenne tail gun, optional position main gear, retracting tail wheel, removable wings, plastic turrets and many other clear or colored plastic panels and parts.
Easy Built Models Lockheed Hudson Bomber - 30 inch Wingspan, D-2
Wood Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc+
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Originally manufactured around the 1940s by 'Easybuilt Micro Since 1932.' Reissued in 1980s by Easy Built using copies of the original plans. High quality modern kit made in the finest tradition of the stick and tissue kits from the 1930s-1950s. Kit contains high quality printed balsa, strip wood, full sized plans and covering tissue. The kit has never been started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and instructions.