C-38 StromBecker American Airlines Convair Flagship - 10 Inch Wingspan Solid Wood Kit
Wood Model Kit, Box Condition: Good
Superb kit from the 1950s and makes a very impressive display when built. This highly prefabricated model is made from solid Western Pine (not balsa wood) and features completely precarved fuselage, wings, engine nacelles & tail feathers, ready to install propellers, full landing gear and even wood filler, glue, and sandpaper. With detailed instructions and drawings with aircraft history and a large, colorful American Airlines decal sheet. Inventoried 100% complete with all parts & paperwork present; even includes sealed envelopes of powdered wood glue and wood filler. NOTE: the instructions are quality photocopies; the originals are missing. There is no assembly but NOTE: there has been very neat, adult-quality sanding done to the vertical stabilizer, which means that the sandpaper and sanding stick have also been used. There is nothing else sanded and nothing assembled. Before plastic kits were introduced, Strombecker was famous as the premier hardwood preshaped model manufacturer. In the 1940s and 1950s, Strombecker kits were flawlessly engineered but not inexpensive. All wooden parts are hardwood and are precarved to shape - usually only a quick sanding would finish them.
$69.00