1/400 8478 Entex The Great Eastern - (ex-Revell)
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good
Hard-to-find kit of this historic ship. Older but very well molded and detailed. Measures 22.25 inches long when built. Features very finely engraved hull, prop and rudder, detailed deck with complete fittings including cable laying equipment, excellent paddle wheels, lifeboats and davits, billowing sails, rigging instructions, display stand and more. Molded in black, butterscotch, wood brown and black with vacuformed sails. Sails are in rare 'excellent++' condition. The kit has never been started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes instructions. The Great Eastern (originally Leviathan) was the work of English Designer I.K. Brunel. In the 1850s there was a need for large ocean liners to carry the immigrant trade, but none existed. Shipping companies also wanted the interiors of ocean liners to look like hotels, but there simply no space. This ship was to solve that problem. She was launched in 1857 and five times bigger than any other ship of the day! The 22,500 ton Great Eastern was 693 feet long and carried 4000 passengers. Unfortunately, her career was one mishap after another until she laid the Trans-Atlantic cable.
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