1/254 H347-298 Revell US Coast Guard Cutter Eagle - With Sails And S Cement - 'S' Issue
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good
First issue from 1957. This model includes a sealed metal tube of very colorful Revell "S" Cement in great condition. The model is very well detailed and molded like most early Revell sailing ships. Features full hull with display stand, detailed deck fittings and houses, separately masts and yards arms, separately molded belaying pins, excellent deadeye assemblies, lifeboats, Revell's superb preformed rat lines, rigging instructions, rigging material and vacuform billowing sails. The sails are in amazing 'mint' condition. Molded in three colors - white, light wood tan and dark brown wood. Never started. Inventoried complete with all parts, decals, flags, rigging material and instructions present. Instructions and decals are both in 'excellent+' condition. Please NOTE: these issues. The box top has a 1.75" long tape tear at the lower right as shown in the photo; part #82 davit is broken but the parts are present and fit back perfectly; the propeller has one blade broken off and that blade is missing. The 295' bark rigged sailing ship was built in 1936 in Bremerhaven, Germany, for the German Navy. It was originally named Horst Vessel. The vessel was acquired in 1946 as a World War II war reparation. The ship was named the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Eagle, and has been used ever since as a training ship for future U.S. Coast Guard Officers. Eagle is based in New London, Connecticut.
$125.00