Monogram B-52 with X-15 - (B-52B), 1/72, 85-5716
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed Exc++
$189
Still factory sealed. Hard-to-find issue from from 2011 with 161 parts. Contains both X-15 (with external tanks) and B-52B kits and all special parts to convert the B-52 to a carrier.
Revell Bell UH-1 Huey Attack Helicopter, 1/32, H259
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG++
$74
1970 release. This large, well detailed model features an 18 inch rotor span, detailed Lycoming T53 Jet Engine with removable cowling, highly detailed interior and cockpit with opening cabin doors, moving rotors and weapons system with SS-11 Missiles, M-6 Machine Guns, 7.62 MM Machine Guns and M-6 Guns & Rocket Pods. Includes pilot and gunner figure and US Army First Air Cavalry markings. The kit has never been started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions.
Tamiya DeHavilland Mosquito FB Mk.VI/NF Mk.11 - RAF No. 143 Sq / No. 157 Sq / No. 487 Sq, 1/48, 61062-3400
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed NM
$34
Still factory sealed. This 1998 issue is very highly detailed inside and out.
Life-Like Gloster Gladiator, 1/48, 09607
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG
$18
Ex-Pyro and nicely molded. Includes cockpit, positionable pilot figure and molded in realistic fabric surfaces. There is no assembly but NOTE: a few sink holes on the wings are neatly filled with modeling putty. Inventoried complete with all parts, decals and instructions present.
Airfix Spitfire IX - Craftmaster Issue, 1/72, 1222-50
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG++
$24
1960s issue with wonderful Craftmaster artwork. Larger box with white sides issue. The kit has never been started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions.
MPC Savoia-Marchetti SM-79 - (ex Airfix), 1/72, 1101-100
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG
$24
The SM-79 was considered an excellent aircraft and one of the best land based torpedo bombers of the war. Designed and serving as an airliner from 1934 onward, 100 were supplied to the Nationalist Air Force for the Spanish Civil War where they served as day and night bombers. The aircraft performed well in the Med and against Malta, sinking many allied ships. This nicely detailed late 1960s/early 1970s model features moving rudder, elevator and ailerons, cockpit detail and torpedo loadout. Never started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions. Decals are in rare 'near mint' condition which is unusual for these kits. This kit is from quality Airfix molds and is one of the MPC issues with standard & custom decals, standard propellers or clear 'in flight' prop discs and the unique clear modular display stand. Dates from the late 1960s/early 1970s. Note that this issue still has 'Craft Master' under the MPC logo. Before this, MPC was marketing Airfix kits under the Craftmaster name in the USA. This continued for several issues and was finally discontinued although MPC continued to distribute Airfix and their own models.
Airfix Dornier Do-217 E.2 - Craftmaster Issue, 1/72, 2-89
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
$24
From the 1960s. Action-packed artwork shows a British fighter in a hot gun battle with the main Do-217, which is receiving major damage. Another Do-217 released it's bomb load, while the starboard wing on another snaps away in flames as the crew hits the silk. Kit features crew stations and a crew of four, elevating gun and rotating turret, separately molded ailerons, elevators and rudders, optional position landing gear (or even retractable undercarriage but not doors), choice of aft fuselage 'long' tail cone containing the early dive brake or 'short' tail cone after the dive brake was discontinued. Never started. Inventoried 100% complete with all parts, decals and instructions present.
Hudson Miniatures 1909 Stanley Steamer - Old Timers, 1/16
Wood Model Kit, Box Condition: VG
$78
Very well detailed large 1/16 kit from 1949. Features plastic wheels, grill, steering wheel, lights and other accessories and wooden main parts. Although all of Hudson's 1/16 kits have excellent detail, this one has even more detail than usual thanks to Hudson's engineers having access to the actual car. This kit has never been started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts, plans and instructions present. Hudson Miniatures created a very popular line of automobile kits in a constant 1/16 scale shortly after WWII. The kits sold very well...so well that you could argue that Gowland & Gowland borrowed Hudson's subject matter for their ground-breaking 'Highway Pioneers.' The Hudson Miniatures 'Old Timers' even spawned a line of imitators, with Fador's 'Smallster' being one of the better in quality. Sales did drop on the appearance and popularity of the much smaller (and less accurate) Gowland/Revell 'Highway Pioneers' in 1951. When the all-injection molded Gowland kits proved not to be a passing fad, Hudson quickly planned and released his own all-plastic, small-scale competition called 'Lil' Old Timers Quickie Kits.' The kits were of excellent quality, but it was too little too late. Additionally, sales of the excellent wooden kits faltered further in the next few years with the introduction of accurate, 1/24 and 1/32 all-plastic cars in the mid 1950s. This forced Hudson to discontinue the wood kits and the plastic line was sold to Revell and subsequently re-released. Today, these excellent, big 1/16 kits are often the only model available of these early automobiles. In the mid 1960s Aurora thought so highly of Hudson Miniatures that they purchased the wood kit assets and released a very small number of these in all-plastic models.
Revell German U-Boat Type VIIC /41 Atlantic Version - U292 1 U-Flottille Brest 1944 / U318 13 Flottille Narvik Norway 1945 / U998 5 Flottille Kiel 1943 / 1004 31 Flottille Hamburg 1944, 1/144, 05100
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
$34
2010 issue from completely new molds. This Revell of Germany kit is very highly detailed and finely molded with over 100 pieces and measures over 18 inches long when assembled. Includes painting guide and decals for the four U-Boats listed above. Never started and the parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions.
Revell Messerschmitt Bf-110 G-4 - (Bf110G4), 1/32, H250
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG
$65
Hard to find 1974 issue with great box artwork. Large and well detailed kit features detailed engines, removable cowls, full cockpit, hinged canopies, crew figures, detailed weapons bay and removable access cover, complete radar antenna, very good landing gear detail and excellent decals. Never started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions.
Hobby Craft Philippine P-26 Peashooter - Philippine Army Air Corps 6 Sq 1941 or Guatemala Air Force 1943-1955, 1/48, HC1559
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good++
$32
Features all recessed fine panel lines, 'very good' cockpit, optional position entry hatch, detailed engine, rigging diagram and decals for two aircraft. The kit has never been started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions.
AV USK Kawasaki Ki-32 Mary, 1/72, AV1007
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG+
$28
Limited edition kit that is very nicely molded. Features fine panel line detail, interior, full decals and painting guide. The kit has never been started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions.
Airfix DH Comet 4B - Dan-Air Skyking Series, 1/144, 03170-7
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
$36
Very nicely detailed and molded kit from 1980. Features clear windows, full landing gear and passenger boarding stairs. Includes colorful Dan-Air London decals. Never started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions. The initial Comet Is were in operation long before the 707, which gave the British an incredible post-war lead in the expanding civil aviation market. Just as the Comet was flying high and orders were pouring in from around the world, Comets began to mysteriously fall out of the sky. Everything from lighting to terrorist bombs were blamed. For months the root cause went undiscovered. Then, in a landmark investigation that is considered the first modern post-crash autopsy, it was discovered that the stresses around a small ADF window on the top of the fuselage were causing metal fatigue failure when the fuselage was pressurized. To confirm this, a Comet I was placed in a water tank and subjected to pressurization stresses. After some time, a dramatic failure occurred. Then parts of a crashed Comet were pulled from underwater proving once and for all that this was the root cause.
Hasegawa Convair F-106A Delta Dart - Massachusetts ANG 102FIW 101 FIS 'Cape Cod' (Demonstrator at 1985 COPPER FLAG) / ADTAC 49FIG 5FIS 'Spittin' Kittens' (Demonstrator at 1984 WILLIAM TELL), 1/72, CT14
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc+
$22
Includes both colorful squadron decals. This high performance follow-up to the F-102 enjoyed a successful and long service life; I can remember seeing them in 'Alert 5' shelters at the Florida Air National Guard base at Jacksonville International in the 1980s. Kit is nicely detailed for it's age and features external tanks, optional position missile bay doors and a full load of Falcon Aim-4 E/F Air-to-Air Missiles. Never started and inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions.
Tamiya Kampfpanzer Leopard, 1/35, MM164
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good+
$33
Well molded and detailed. The kit has never been started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions.
Huma Model Grunau 9 And Schulgleiter SG-38 Gliders - Bagged, 1/72
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed Bag
$22
Still factory sealed. Limited edition injection molded kit includes both gliders and full decals.
Airfix Grumman J2F-6 or OA-12 Duck - US Navy or Air Force - (J2F6), 1/72, 03031
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed Exc+
$28
Still factory sealed. 1980s issue from original 1960s molds and well molded and detailed for that time with 68 pieces. The amazing Duck first flew in 1934, saw service all through WWII and was not phased out untill the mid 1950s. Has markings for NAS Patuxent River 1943 and 10th Rescue Sq USAF Elmendorf Alaska, 1948.
Lindberg Republic P-47N Thunderbolt, 1/48, 511-98
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: NM
$69
Early hardbox issue from the late 1950s with colorful Ray Gaedke hardbox artwork. The box is in amazing investment grade 'near mint' condition with like-new color and gloss, four solid corners, no repairs, fading, creases or stains. Light general wear and tape marks on the two longs sides are the only flaw. This is the second issue of this kit for the USA, with added fine rivet detail and molded in silver and clear. Never started. Inventoried 100% complete with all parts decals and instructions. This kit started as a basic 1/48 scale model with full landing gear, rockets and bombs. Surface detail was minimal Lindberg modified it in the mid 1950s with fine raised panel lines and tasteful rivet detail. In the late 1950s, they modified it again to a motorized version with the batteries in the stand and a kit electric motor in the nose. Lindberg is a company with a fascinating history The original 'Lindberg Line' stretches back to the 1930s when Paul Lindberg drew plans for famous modeling magazines and marketed his balsa wood 'stick and tissue' by urging dealers to carry the '...Complete Lindberg Line'. After the war, Lindberg and Olsen had a strong hand in early United States injection molded kit development. Please see the article located on this website about early USA plastic kit manufacturers.
Meikraft Models Grumman FF-1, 1/72, 1608
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG
$32
Very limited production, only 2000 made. This is the first carrier aircraft to have an enclosed cockpit and retractable gear. The kit has never been started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions.
Comet P-40 Tiger Shark - 18 Inch Wingspan - Coke Bottle Issue, N1-29
Wood Model Kit, Box Condition: Good+
$44
This model comes from the personal collection of one of Monogram's top Chief Designers. He designed and headed up the projects for the B-52, B-17, B-24J, Mosquito, Skyraider A-1E, Hurricane, Spitfire, P-40, at least one (if not all) of the 1/8 scale cars and many, many more. The actual kit is a 1950s/early 1960s stick-and-tissue flying model. Features quality balsa printwood, strip stock, formed wheels, covering material and full plans. The kit has never been started and is complete. The entire Comet 1950s "N" line included the following (gaps mean there is no kit, at least at that time): N1 Tiger Shark P-40, N2 F-86D Sabre Jet, N4 Globe Swift, N6 Taylorcraft, N8 F-51 Mustang, N9 Helicopter, N11 Ryan Navion, N12 Firefly, N15 Piper Cub, N16 Fokker DVII, N17 Spad, N24 Phantom Fury, N25 Aeronca K (floats) and N26 Stinson SR-7. Comet was a famous manufacturer of stick and tissue flying and static models. In the 1930s Great Depression, they lead the low-priced kit revolution with the "Dime Scale" kits and famous advertisements in Model Airplane News magazine and others. Comet reached it's peak in the 1930s when they acquired the services of Carl Goldberg. Goldberg was a highly accomplished modeler with articles in Model Airplane News and famous designs that won him several National level competitions in the 1930s and beyond. (Carl Goldberg went on to found his own company and produced well designed and popular free-flight and RC aircraft). Comet survived the post World War economic slump and continued kit production until they were bought out by long-time competitor Guillow's in 1998.