Lindberg Wappen Von Hamburg - German Sailing Ship from 1669 - with Sails, 1/143, 816-298
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc+
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Original issue hardbox kit from 1965. One of Lindberg's finest mold cuts for a sailing ship. Large scale, full hull kit measures 16.5 inches long when completed. Well detailed with a great many parts. Features 62 full cannon and carriage detail on 4 decks, three decks with full decking, movable cross masts and rudder, numerous finely detailed crew members, fine, flexible and completely preformed rat lines, detailed deck fittings, vacuform sails, rigging material, full rigging diagram, flags, decals, display stand and more. Molded in dark wood brown, light wood brown and black. The kit has never been started. Inventoried 100% complete including decals and instructions. Sails are in excellent condition.
Revell Convair B-24 'The Blue Streak' WARBIRD, 1/72, H203-200
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG++
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1964 first issue hardbox with excellent color and gloss. Has many action features: landing gear retracts and extends, control surfaces move, guns elevate and turrets rotate, wheels and props spin, flaps extend/retract, 4 crew and has optional position side gunner's position (open or closed). Never started. Inventoried with all parts, decals and instructions present.
Airfix F4U-1D Corsair - Craftmaster Issue - (F4U1D), 1/72, 1-46
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG++
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Action-filled Craftmaster artwork. The kit has never been started. Inventoried 100% complete with all parts, decals and instructions.
Airfix De Havilland Heron - Jersey Airlines With Airline Brochure or RAF Queen's Flight, 1/72, 381
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Fair++
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1950s type two box with great artwork. This is an excellent kit with good detail. It features separately molded & working control surfaces, cockpit detail, optional position cabin door, retracting undercarriage, rotating props, boarding stairs, stewardess, family (mother, father and son) and business man as well as two seated pilots. Kit also includes a wonderful tri-fold flier from Jersey Airlines titled 'Channel Islands Holidays'. which contains a full description of this airline's trip to the Channel Islands. Never started. Inventoried 100% complete with all parts, both decal sheets and instructions. The Heron was the result of a larger and redesigned Dove and first flew in 1950. It's ability to operate from rough fields and ease of maintenance quickly make it a favorite for feeder and independent airlines in the UK and overseas. Heron IIs were also selected by the RAF for the Queens Flight, which is a statement to it's reliability and safety.
Monogram The UFO from 'The Invaders' TV Series (ex-Aurora), 1/72, 6012
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG+
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Monogram's first reissue shortly after they purchased the original Aurora molds in the mid/late 1970s. This issue is different from the 1996 reissue in that it says 'From the TV Show The Invaders - A Quinn Martin Production' and the reissue does not. Aurora had originally released this kit as a promotion with the 1966 TV series 'The Invaders'. The box is excellent condition. The alien craft features moving landing legs, removable top showing full interior and crew and red-tinted clear landing lights. The kit has never been started. Inventoried 100% complete including instructions.
Hasegawa Grumman S2F-1 (S-2A) Tracker Early Paint Scheme, 1/72, 00824
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed NM
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Still factory sealed. From 2006. Well molded kit from older molds. Has markings for the US Navy. Kit features cockpit detail, retractable radome, optional position landing gear and rotating props. Over 1000 Trackers were completed for the Navy as carrier-based submarine hunters. Grumman was awarded the contract in 1950, and in 1952 the first XS2F-1 flew. The large belly radome contained the PAS-38 search radar and the ASQ-10 MAD detector was in the tail. ALD-3 ECM performed DF (direction finding) duties, and the 70 million candle power spotlight lit up targets at night. Sonobuoys were held in both engine nacelles and offensive weapons included acoustic torpedoes, depth charges, rockets and conventional bombs. Trackers saw service in several other Navies including Canada.
Airfix VC-10 British Airways Skyking Series, 1/144, 04171-3
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG
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Hard to find. Has decals for three VC10 aircraft of British Airways. Well-detailed kit with optional position baggage/cargo and passenger doors, optional position landing gear and boarding stairs. Note: kit is complete. However, two cabin doors and one baggage door are from a built up (but unpainted) kit. These three parts have glue and light damage to them. All other parts have never been assembled and are as new. Includes decals and instructions.
Airfix Boeing 707 - BOAC Airlines, 1/144, SK600
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
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1960s 'Type Three' logo kit. Nicely detailed and with a large BOAC decal sheet. The kit has never been started. Inventoried 100% complete including decals and instructions.
Modelcraft Avro Shackleton MR.3 RAF (Ex-Frog) - Royal Air Force (RAF) or South African Air Force (SAAF), 1/72, 72-050
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Fair
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From Ex-Frog molds. Large twenty inch wingspan. Well detailed model with rotating props, movable ailerons, rudders, and flaps. Can be built with gear up or down and radome extended or retracted. The kit has not been started. NOTE: one small wing flap, one spinner, one prop and one small antenna are a different color plastic. They are from an earlier issue of this same kit. There is no stand. Inventoried with all other parts, decals and instructions.
ESCI Mirage III EA / EO Malvinas/Falklands War - 1 Esquadron De Caza Argentina or No. 3 Squadron RAAF Australia, 1/48, 4073
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed VG+++
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Still factory sealed. Rare. Has decals for Fuerza Aerea Argentina Falklands Islands War and alternate RAAF markings. Features cockpit detail, optional parts for both versions, detailed landing gear and gear wells, optional position canopy and various loadouts with drop tanks, AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles and R530 missiles.
Fujimi Mirage III R - French - Israeli - South African Air Forces, 1/48, 0783-300
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good+
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Has decals for all three air forces. Features very fine recessed and raised panel lines, cockpit with pilot, drop tanks, air-to-air missiles and air-to-ground missiles as well. The kit has never been started. Internal factory sealed bag including decals and instructions.
Nichimo Imperial Japanese Navy Submarine Type Otsu I-19, 1/200, U-2006
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed Mint
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Still mint in the factory seal. Very successful Japanese fleet submarine from WWII that sported an aircraft in a sealed hanger. This combination was used to bomb the western USA as the only bombing attack on the American mainland during WWII. Motorized model that can be made remote control with today's tiny components.
Pyro British Bomb Ketch, C256-100
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good
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Dated 1966. Full hull kit with very good molded detail, pre-molded ratlines, detailed deck, billowing sails and display stand. Measures just over 9.5 inches inches long when assembled. Molded in swirl wood tan and off-white. The box drawing serves as a rigging diagram. Never started. Inventoried 100% complete with all parts and instructions. The British Bomb Ketch was often called 'a ship without a foremast'. A heavily padded well was built into the deck in place of the usual foremast. A heavy mortar was tied down into this well. These ships were used to bombard shore installations that smaller cannons had no effect on. The bombs weight about 200 pounds as compared to the usual 48 pounds from the largest naval guns of the time. The entire ship was aimed to fire the mortar. The mortar first used in this type vessel was used until the second world war with very little change in design except for the the controls and firing mechanism. This is one of the 'intermediate' line of Pyro ship kits, which in 1966 Pyro called '$1.00 Models'. All were roughly the same size and were a significant increase in detail from the '50 Cent Models'. Kits in the $1.00 line in '66 included the Skipjack, Cutty Sark, Charles W. Morgan, HMS Bounty, HMS Ark Royal, USS Constellation, British Bomb Ketch, Chinese War Junk, Elsie - Gloucester Fisherman, Burma River Pirate, Racing Yawl, Polynesian Outrigger and others. 50 Cent kits in 1966 included the Mayflower, Barbary Pirate, USS Constitution, Santa Maria, Golden Hind, Half Moon, Bon Homme Richard, Brig of War, HMS Victory, Flying Cloud, Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria and others.
Pyro Gotta Le Jon - Swedish Man-O-War, B262-125
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good++
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Dated 1967. Full hull kit with very good molded detail, pre-molded ratlines, detailed deck, billowing sails and display stand. Measures about 8 inches inches long when assembled. Molded in dark wood and off-white. A photo of the built kit on the instructions serves as a standing rigging diagram. Never started. Inventoried 100% complete with all parts and instructions. This is one of the 'intermediate' line of Pyro ship kits, which in 1967 Pyro called '$1.25 Models.' All were roughly the same size and were a significant increase in detail from the '75 Cent Models'. Kits in the $1.25 line in '67 included the Skipjack, Cutty Sark, Charles W. Morgan, HMS Bounty, HMS Ark Royal, USS Constellation, British Bomb Ketch, Chinese War Junk, Elsie - Gloucester Fisherman, Henri Grace A'Dieu, Dutch Staten Jacht, Gotta Le Jon and others. 75 Cent kits in 1967 included the Mayflower, Barbary Pirate, USS Constitution, Santa Maria, Golden Hind, Half Moon, Bon Homme Richard, Brig of War, HMS Victory, Flying Cloud, Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria, La Reale French Galley, Venetian Carrack, Roman Merchant, Spanish Galleon and others.
Monogram Hawker Hurricane 'White Box' Issue, 1/48, 6802
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed Mint
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Still factory sealed. 1973 White Box issue of the original 'Four Star' kit. This is a box art variation that this not frequently seen (the other one has the airplane level with the tail in the air and the angle of the camera is different). Has all parts and decals to build any of five versions. Features a wide variety of guns/bombs/rockets and cannon, retracting landing gear and rotating prop and wheels.
Huma Model Messerschmitt Me-609 Zerstrorer / Schnellbomber, 1/72, 4500
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG
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Limited issue kit. Nicely molded. The kit has never been started. Internal factory sealed bag including decals and instructions.
Revell Frank Lukes Spad XIII - with Pilot and Two Crew Figures, 1/28, H290
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good+
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Very large 1/28 scale kit from 1969. This is a reissue of the famous 1957 'S' kit. Nicely molded and detailed. Features markings for Frank Luke's personal aircraft, detailed Hispano-Suiza engine, removable inspection panels, detailed machine guns, full cockpit, rotating wheels and prop, very fine 'fabric' detailing over ribs and stringers and full rigging instructions. The kit has never been started. Inventoried 100% complete including decals and instructions. Please note that 5 smaller parts are a slightly different shade of green; they are from an earlier issue of this same kit.
Scientific The 'Good News' - 50 inch Wingspan Control Line Flying Aircraft Model
Wood Model Kit, Box Condition: VG
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Very large (50 inch wingspan) early control line kit 'Licensed under Jim Walker U-Control'. Rare. Features printed select balsa and hardwood, preformed metal landing gear, low profile wheels, hardware, full size planes and more. This model came from the estate of a very active and particular early aircraft kit collector. It is like factory-new inside and has not been started. Complete with all parts, plans and decals (if originally included).
Revell F-15C with ASAT (Anti-Satellite) Missile, 1/32, 4800
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed Exc+++
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Still factory sealed. Rare 1985 issue with large Anti-Satellite Missile. Has all parts to build a conventional F-15C or the ASAT version with a large and correct decal sheet. Very nicely detailed kit. Very nicely detailed with all fine recessed panel lines, detailed cockpit, rubber tires, complete weapons stores, detailed gear wells, optional position landing gear, canopy and speed brake, optional position nose with detailed radome and markings for two aircraft. Includes full painting guide.
Entex Lockheed L-1011 TriStar - TWA, 1/100, 8455
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Poor
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The largest injection molded kit ever made of the L-1011. Over 24 inches long when assembled. Well-detailed kit. Features full TWA decals. The kit has never been started. Internal factory sealed bags including decals and instructions. The box is poor but the kit inside is like new with the exception of one thing- This collector stored his decals and instructions in a safe, climate controlled place. So please note that the instructions have three holes for a binder and the decal sheet was neatly cut so the decals could fit in a protective envelope. Only the blank backing paper is cut and none of the transfers are damaged.