1/240 C240-200 Pyro USS Olympia - Admiral Dewey's Flagship
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good
1967 hardbox issue with A.J. Rudisill artwork. This is Pyro's famous full hull, large-scale model of Admiral Dewey's flagship which still exists as a museum ship. Never started and inventoried complete with all parts and includes instructions. NOTE: while there is no assembly, someone neatly applied a soft glue (like rubber cement) to the inside of the hull. The glue is still soft and I could pick it off with my fingernail. The glue did not melt the plastic, so the hulls are in excellent condition. Some 400 grit sandpaper would remove the glue much more efficiently than using fingernails. In addition to her more famous role in the War with Spain, Olympia went on to active service in World War I, the Allied intervention in Russia, and as flagship in the Mediterranean, 1919. She is preserved today as a museum ship and one of the very few protected cruisers left in the world.
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