Tru-Flight Jack Armstrong Wheaties Penny Glider Set - P-47 / Heinkel He-113 / Zero / Yak I-26 / FW-190 / P-40 / P-51D / Spitfire / F6F / Fulmar / D3A Val / Nakajima O1 MK-1 / Il-2 / P-39 - Cardstock Flying Gliders
Cardstock Paper Model Kit, Box Condition: Bagged
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This is a set of 14 unopened Tru-Flight reissues of the incredibly popular 1944 line. In 1944 the General Mills Company had and Englishman named Rigby design the models. General Mills was the sponsor of the Jack Armstrong Radio Show, and they used this to introduce a series of full color cardstock models of the most famous WWII fighters. Thousands of these were given away. They flew so well that a National Championship Contest was organized where awards were given for the best maneuverability and longest flights. The aircraft were re-introduced in 1966, and these excellent full color reproductions are from 1986. They have never been started and are complete.
Lindberg Arado AR-234B Jet Bomber, 1/72, 472
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG-
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1975 one-piece box with Tom Morgan artwork. The kit has never been started. Inventoried 100% complete including decals and instructions.
MPC Vickers Wellington Profile Series - No. 9 Sq Honnington England 1938/39 / No. 75 New Zealand Sq / No. 311 Czech Squadron 1941, 1/72, 2-2005
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG-
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In the 1970s, MPC released the very popular Profile Series. Inside each box was a quality Airfix kit but with MPC decals to build any of the three aircraft shown on the box top. Well detailed kit. This kit has never been started. It is still in the internally sealed factory bag with decals and instructions.
Frog Vickers Supermarine Spitfire II, 1/72, 394P
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
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1950s issue molded in medium blue. Finely done with all recessed panel lines, clear stand and complete with glue capsule. This kit has never been started. Inventoried 100% complete with all parts, decals and instructions. Frog is considered the father of injection molded model kits. The Lines Brothers opened Frog in 1932, capitalizing on the fever caused by Lindberg's solo transatlantic flight. Almost overnight the western populations became 'Air-Minded', and anything aviation was in high demand. Frog created a quality line of stick and tissue rubber powered aircraft and gliders as well as innovative ready-to-fly rubber powered aircraft that required no assembly. The box even contained a built-in rubber motor winder and fuselage holder. Model airplane flight competitions were popular in Great Britain, and one category was 'Rise Off the Ground', or ROG. By changing this to 'Flies Right Off the Ground', the FROG name was born. In 1936 Frog created a line of injection molded plastic models, the first such kit line in the world (Hawk sold a line of injection molded aircraft models in 1934 but they were factory assembled and painted). Named 'Penguin' after the bird that does not fly, the kits were innovative beyond the means of production. At a time when models were simply built by wingspan, the Penguin line was a constant 1/72 scale. Furthermore, a large 1/72 Short S.30 Empire class flying boat contained a full interior and lights! A line of accessories such as AA guns, tractors, hanger, ambulance, sound locator, searchlights and lighting kits were quickly added to the line. WWII caused a pause in production. After the war the box color changed from silver to green, and Penguin kits were also marketed in the USA. Production ended in 1950. Frog quickly expanded and released the Red, Blue, Orange, Black, Green, Gold Token, Spin and Comet series as well as Trail Blazers and several others. It is noteworthy that while most manufacturers in the 1940s/50 were making toy-like models, Frog attempted to make very realistic models. For example, 'detailing' kits with excessively large rivets was once very popular. Frog ignored this trend and continued to mold aircraft with fine panel lines and no rivets. As a result, Frog kits can be built into very realistic replicas. Production ended in the late 1970s, but Frog molds are still in use around the world.
Airfix BAe Jetstream 31/32 (C-10A), 1/72, 03012-2
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG+
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Difficult-to-find kit of the Civil/USAF Transport. Very highly detailed kit. Features full interior (cockpit and cabin), with optional position entry doors/boarding stairs and landing gear, moving control surfaces and rotating props. NOTE: the cockpit floor and seats have been glued. Quality of assembly is 'very good'. There is no other assembly and no painting. The kit is complete with all parts, decals and instructions.
Revell SS Brasil (Brazil) Moore-McCormack's Famous Luxury Ocean Liner 'S' Kit - Bagged, 1/400, H346-198
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: NO BOX
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Bagged kit - no box. The box is shown for reference only. This is a very good builder kit but not a collector kit - please read carefully. Very rare early "S" kit. First issue dated 1957. Model features detailed deck fittings, lifeboat, davits, outside stabilizers, movable cargo booms, swimming pools, and display stand. The kit has never been started. NOTE: Missing one of five small bitts, one small forward staircase and one boom. No decals, pool foil or flags. The instructions are in very poor condition - they are present but not usable. The model parts are dirty and will have to be cleaned.
ITC 1956 Ford Thunderbird - Motorized, 1/21, 3695-198
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG
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Rare motorized car kit from ITC (Ideal Toy Corporation). Includes electric motor, wiring, brass contacts, gears and switches for motorized operation. The car itself is molded in cream, silver, clear and with real rubber tires. I listed the year of the car as 1956, but it is difficult to assign a year to this model; it has certain elements of all three years of 1st generation T-Birds. In previous publications the kit is listed as 1/24 scale - it actually measures out to about 1/21. The kit has never been started and is complete with all parts and instructions. The rubber tires cause typical small 'burn' marks on the right door, fender and hood.
Monogram Albatross SA-16B (Hu-16), 1/72, P20-149
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed Mint
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Still factory sealed. 1995 Reissue from the same molds as the popular 'Four Star' kit. Features retracting landing gear, rotating wheels/props, three man crew, optional position crew door and two survivors in a life raft. The Albatross was the primary sea rescue aircraft of the Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Service, a branch of MAC - Military Airlift Command. Operational service began in 1947 and Hu-16s saw wartime action in Vietnam.
Revell Douglas DC-8 Super 61 with Aftermarket Nose and Tail Cones + Microscale DC-8-61United and National Decals, 1/144, H270-225
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG+
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This kit includes the Microscale sheet #44-25 with United (N8080U) and National (N45090) Airlines decals. Includes instructions and is still factory sealed. Also included are a very nicely injection molded nose and tail correction or variation set for this kit (manufacture is unknown). The Revell model is from 1969. Nicely molded kit of the early 'stretch 8'. Never started. NOTE: missing Revell decals. Otherwise inventoried with all parts, instructions and aftermarket nose/tail and sealed Microscale decals.
Monogram Phantom Mustang, 1/32, 6866
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Fair
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3nd issue of one of the best visible airplane action kits ever made. Features a full cut away model with interior detail. Buttons on the base activate two motors that make the prop spin, and the main gear and tail wheel retract and extend. Two other levers on the base drop the wing bombs. Never started. 100% inventoried complete with all parts/decals and instructions present. NOTE: the box is 98% complete and was poor. It has been repaired from the inside and is now graded as 'Fair'. It has significant wear.
Ideal Aeroplane & Supply Sea Witch Clipper - 12 Inch Long Wooden Ship Kit with Molded Hull
Wood Model Kit, Box Condition: VG
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From 1938. One in a series of the popular Ideal 'One Foot' series of ship models. This kit features Ideal's 'Moulded Hull' to take much of the difficult work out of building a wooden ship kit. The hull is completely formed of a wood composite and is in excellent 'as new' condition. The kit also includes printwood, fibre printed parts, wood stock and bamboo as required. Has a sealed envelope of CASCO glue, full size plans with rigging diagram and building instructions. Inside, the kit is like new and complete. It has not been started and the parts are still wrapped in the factory packing paper.
Model Shipways Schooner Yacht 'America' 1851 - 20 Inch Long Wooden Ship Kit, 1/64
Wood and Metal Model Kit, Box Condition: Good++
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High quality scale kit from the famous Model Shipways. Features an excellent precarved hardwood hull, high quality select hardwood parts, scored deck, tapered hardwood yards, wood and metal stock as needed, rigging materials, precarved wooden fittings, brass chain and stock, cast metal fittings, several sheets of full size plans with numerous detailed views, full rigging information and an illustrated instruction book. The kit has never been started. All small parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and the other parts have been inventoried complete including plans and instructions.
Master Modelcraft Supply Co Clipper Ship - 14 Inch Long Wooden Ship Kit
Wood Model Kit, Box Condition: Good+++
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From 1945. LOA is 14 inches when assembled. Features precarved hull (final sanding needed), three sheets of very neatly done printwood, stock wood and many size dowels for masts and yards, detailed rigging diagrams, sail patterns and well drawn full-size plans with sectional views. The kit has never been started. NOTE: missing four identical 1 inch long lifeboats. I believe these were cast metal. There are no other missing parts and the plans are excellent. Master Modelcraft Supply Company made wooden model aircraft as well and listed their address as N.Y. 66, New York during the early 1950s.
Scientific The Sea Witch Clipper Ship - 27 inch long Wood and Metal Ship Kit, 171
Wood and Metal Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed VG++
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Still in the factory seal but the seal has splits. One of Scientific's larger and highly detailed deluxe offerings. Measures 27.25 inches LOA when assembled. Very nicely done kit featuring precarved hull, real cloth sails, dozens of metal fittings, metal name plate, printwood sheets, full size plans, rigging instructions and diagrams, rigging material, hardwood base, display pedestals, masts and spars, color decals and more.
Pyro 1914 Mercer Raceabout, 1/32, C452-125
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
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1967 Pyro issue from original molds. In the early to mid 1960s the Pyro company chose many of it's kit subjects based more on historical significance than popularity. Luckily for us, Pyro not only made these kits but did an excellent job for the time. The Pyro car models are based on the actual cars that Pyro engineers and designers had access to. In some cases, the specific car and owner is on the box. This car is an exact reproduction of the car owned by Ralph T. Buckley, owner of the Antique Auto Shop of New Jersey. This shop specialized in rebuilding Mercer automobiles to factory new condition. The car was part of the Gene Zimmerman display of over 150 such cars in Holiday West PA. The model includes rubber tires, brass plated parts, colored injection molded parts and clear parts. Features detailed chassis, complete motor and interior and a removable hood or 'bonnet'. Never started. Factory sealed bag or inventoried 100% complete with all parts and instructions.
Revell Rockwell B-1B Bomber with AGM-69A SRAM Missiles, 1/48, 85-4900
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed Good+++
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1998 issue. Still factory sealed but the seal has split on one short side. Very large (1/48 scale) and highly detailed kit with 238 parts. Includes complete cockpit, detailed gear wells, steerable nose wheels, optional position bomb bay door, 16 AGM-69A SRAM missiles with rotary launcher, removable nose with detailed radar, working cockpit ladder, real rubber tires, full storage container in third bomb bay and more.
Revell F-15D/E Eagle - 391st FS 'Bold Tigers' Mountain Home AFB Idaho 2005 or Standard 391st Markings, 1/32, 85-5715
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed Exc+++
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Still factory sealed. Recent (2010) reissue. Nicely detailed kit with full cockpits, nicely done intake and exhaust detail, full gear wells, a wide variety of external weapons loads and decals for two aircraft including the colorful box art aircraft.
Airfix Handley Page Hampden B. Mk. I, 1/72, 04011-2
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed NM
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Still factory sealed. 1975 issue with the fourth style logo. Hard to find. Features movable control surfaces, opened or closed bomb bay with bombs, full crew and optional position undercarriage. Hampdens, along with Whitley and Wellingtons, formed the RAF's Heavy Bomber force at the outbreak of WWII.
Cleveland Curtiss SBC-4 Helldiver Balsa Flying Model Airplane Kit, 1/16, SF-80
Wood Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
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This is a Cleveland 'SF' or 'Scale Flying' model in museum scale of 1/16. The kit came from a long time collector of 1930s and 1940s models and is in exceptional condition. All Cleveland kits were exceptionally complete and this one is no exception. Features very high quality balsa printwood and strip wood, covering material, highest quality plans, all parts required for assembly and decals (if issued with the kit). The model has not been started. The parts are either in factory sealed bag(s) or inventoried 100% complete with all parts and instructions. The Cleveland Model and Supply Company played a pivotal role in the development of true scale models. In 1909 Bleriot’s English Channel flight caused a surge in aviation and model aircraft around the globe. Several companies were ideally positioned to take advantage of the aviation craze. In the USA, Wading River Manufacturing Co. (1909), White Aeroplane (1911), Ideal Model Aeroplane (1911), Broadfield Model Aeroplanes (1919) were among these pioneers, offering everything from plans and parts to complete kits and ARF models. Lindbergh’s 1927 crossing of the Atlantic Ocean caused an even bigger world-wide phenomenon called “The Aviation Craze” that extended up to the start of World War II. Many companies such as Megow, Guillow's and others started right around the time of Lindbergh’s flight. Some of these models flew and flew well, but they all had one thing in common - were generally not accurate scale representations. In 1929, a youngster named Ed Packard had a very advanced dream – to produce incredibly accurate, true scale models that flew perfectly. This radical idea established the world’s longest running single-owner (77 years) model airplane supply business – Cleveland Model and Supply Company. To this day, Cleveland models are treasured as the most accurate flying scale models produced. The fact that Mr. Packard started and successfully grew this business during The Great Depression is a testament to his ideals and business skill. I highly suggest the excellent book called ‘Aviation’s great Recruiter – Cleveland’s Ed Packard’ by H.L. (Herm) Schreiner. It is an excellent history of the man, his company and the times of the Golden Age of Model Aviation.
Cleveland Page's Curtiss XF6C-6 Navy Racer Balsa Flying Model Airplane Kit, 1/16, SF-44
Wood Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
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This is a Cleveland 'SF' or 'Scale Flying' model in museum scale of 1/16. The kit came from a long time collector of 1930s and 1940s models and is in exceptional condition. All Cleveland kits were exceptionally complete and this one is no exception. Features very high quality balsa printwood and strip wood, covering material, highest quality plans, all parts required for assembly and decals (if issued with the kit). The model has not been started. The parts are either in factory sealed bag(s) or inventoried 100% complete with all parts and instructions. The Cleveland Model and Supply Company played a pivotal role in the development of true scale models. In 1909 Bleriot’s English Channel flight caused a surge in aviation and model aircraft around the globe. Several companies were ideally positioned to take advantage of the aviation craze. In the USA, Wading River Manufacturing Co. (1909), White Aeroplane (1911), Ideal Model Aeroplane (1911), Broadfield Model Aeroplanes (1919) were among these pioneers, offering everything from plans and parts to complete kits and ARF models. Lindbergh’s 1927 crossing of the Atlantic Ocean caused an even bigger world-wide phenomenon called “The Aviation Craze” that extended up to the start of World War II. Many companies such as Megow, Guillow's and others started right around the time of Lindbergh’s flight. Some of these models flew and flew well, but they all had one thing in common - were generally not accurate scale representations. In 1929, a youngster named Ed Packard had a very advanced dream – to produce incredibly accurate, true scale models that flew perfectly. This radical idea established the world’s longest running single-owner (77 years) model airplane supply business – Cleveland Model and Supply Company. To this day, Cleveland models are treasured as the most accurate flying scale models produced. The fact that Mr. Packard started and successfully grew this business during The Great Depression is a testament to his ideals and business skill. I highly suggest the excellent book called ‘Aviation’s great Recruiter – Cleveland’s Ed Packard’ by H.L. (Herm) Schreiner. It is an excellent history of the man, his company and the times of the Golden Age of Model Aviation.