1/254 H347-300 Revell US Coast Guard Cutter Eagle - With Sails
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Fair-
Second issue hardbox from about 1960. This issue used the same dramatic box artwork as the original issue 'S' kit and is molded in the same colors - white, light wood tan and dark wood brown. Like most early Revell sailing ships, it is very well detailed and molded. Features full hull with display stand, detailed deck fittings and houses, separately masts and yards arms, separately molded belaying pins, realistic deadeye assemblies, lifeboats, Revell's superb preformed rat lines, rigging instructions, rigging material, vacuform billowing sails and more. The sails are in 'near mint++' condition. Never started. Inventoried and NOTE: missing one small part, #45 binnicle. Otherwise complete with all other parts, decals, color flag sheet and instructions present. PLEASE NOTE that the left hull half has split away about 3" from the front. It fits back perfectly with no gaps. 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.
$65.00