1/48 2507M Lindberg F8U Crusader Crusader Motorized - With Jet Sound - (F-8U / F-8A)
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG
1978 reissue of the very popular late 1950s kit. Ideal 'Classic Builder' is loaded with working features such as realistic motorized jet sound, retracting main and nose gear with working gear doors, removable tail section with detailed jet engine, working elevators, rudders and ailerons and working ejection seat. The kit has never been started. The motor is still in the factory sealed bag. The other parts have been inventoried 100% complete including decals and instructions. NOTE: the ejection seat is a different color plastic. It is from an earlier issue of this same kit. 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.
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