Revell Kugisho P1Y1/2 Ginga Frances, 1/72, H103
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good-
$59
Rare Revell Japan issue with unique box art. Contains parts and markings to make P1Y1, P1Y1a, P1Y2 and PI2-S. Kit features full interior detail, detailed engines, optional position landing gear, and open or closed bomb bay with different bomb or torpedo loads. Never started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions.
Revell Boeing IM-99 Bomarc - With Launcher, 1/47, H1806-149
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good
$110
Original hardbox issue from 1957 and not the common reissue. This is a very well detailed model for that time and features fully operational launcher and crew. Never started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions. Please note that the box is only graded 'good' because 'OK' is written on the box top and two short sides in permanent black market and there is one closed split corner. There is also general wear (mainly the edges) as shown.
Revell F-8E Crusader - Jet Commando Issue, 1/67, H255-130
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good-
$32
1969 Jet Commando issue. This is a reissue (probably the last) of the original 'S' kit from the 1950s. Makes a perfect 'Classic Build' model. Features optional position landing gear and wing tips, VF-11 markings and four AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles. The kit has never been started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions. Please NOTE there is bug damage to the decal backing paper, but the actual transfers have no bug damage. The box has corner damage in the lower right and a 2" x .75" section missing on the upper long side.
Revell Convair B-36 Giant Bomber - Pre-'S' Issue, 1/184, H205-98
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
$129
1954 issue of this classic kit. Molded in the correct gloss silver and clear and with the famous clear 'Revelving Swivel Base.' The kit has never been started. Inventoried 100% complete including decals and instructions. NOTE: the box would grade higher than 'excellent' but there is a very, very light stain below the front of the aircraft. It is difficult to see. This kit has an interesting history. The first issue came out in the 'short' hardbox that had the full version of this artwork with a port and ocean scene in the background. The first version also had the one-piece stand arm and the instructions that reflected that. The second issue had the same artwork, but with a completely different background that gave better contrast. There may be a 'one-piece' stand arm version in this revised artwork, but I have yet to see one.
Revell Convair F-106A Delta Dart Whip Fly - With Whistle and Streamers, 1/67, H159-129
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good
$125
Rare. 1961 issue in the Whip Fly 'Master Modeler' series. Does include the Master Modeler Trading Stamp (for the Competition Corvette) and MM application form. This series was quickly discontinued when it discovered that heavily weighted models with pointed front ends swinging at terrific speeds around young children might not be safe. Based on the 1950s F-106 "S" kit, the Delta Dart Whip Fly comes with USAF decals, flight ballast, handle, 12 feet of control line, control ring, colorful streamers (cut from the colored bag according to the instructions) for the jet engines and a underside pod which is a in-flight whistle! Never started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions.
Cox Tee Dee .049 Gas Engine - Never Run and In The Original Jewel Case, 170
Metal and Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: NM
$124
Very rare in this condition. Not a kit, but a factory built engine that is NOS - never run and mint. It has never been removed from the cardboard display The clear Cox 'Jewel Case' is in 'near mint' condition which is rare. It is complete and intact with paperwork and two wrenches.
Hasegawa ASF-X Shinden II - Creator Works Ace Combat, 1/72, CW03
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: NM
$46
Beautifully molded and detailed. Features fine all-recessed panel lines, very good cockpit and detailed gear wells. The kit has never been started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions.
Pantera PZL-37B Los, 1/72, 003
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed NM
$22
Still factory sealed.
Unicraft Arado Ar.TEW.16/42-23, 1/72
Resin Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed NM
$39
Still factory tape sealed. Rare. Nicely detailed, limited-run resin kit. The Ar.TEW.16/43-23 is unique to me because it looks like it is composed of common parts of many other more common aircraft; however, that is not true and it was an all new design. This fighter dates from 1943, and was to be of an all-metal construction. It featured swept-back wings, and two He S 011 turbojets were mounted beneath the wings. The fuselage contained three fuel tanks which were located behind the cockpit. The main landing gear rotated 90 degrees before being retracted forwards into the wing. As per the Ar TEW 16/43-13, a spherical tire was chosen for the front landing gear. The armament consisted of a single MG 151/15 15mm machine gun and two MG 213/20 20mm cannon, all located in the nose beneath the cockpit. This aircraft did not get out of the preliminary design phase; instead, design and production was concentrated on the Ar 234.
Lindberg Mc Donnell Voodoo F-88, 1/48, 543-98
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
$64
1950s first issue with classic Ray Gaedke art. Features movable control surfaces, pilot and ejection seat, scale jet engines with opening inspection hatch, full landing gear, optional tip tanks or 'clean' wings and colorful decals for the box art aircraft. Molded in silver and clear. Never started. Inventoried 100% complete with all parts, decals and instructions. 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.
LS Panavia MRCA 200 Tornado and Hobby Craft General Dynamics F-16A Fighting Falcon, 1/144, 1035
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG
$16
SALE! Includes both kits. Never started. Both are still in the internal factory sealed bags. With decals and instructions (printed on the underside of the box lid or on the box bottom).
La Belle DSP & PRR Tiffany Reefer HOn3 Narrow Gauge - Craftsman Model, 1/87, HOn3-36
Wood and Metal Model Kit, Box Condition: VG
$22
During the golden era of realistic train models, La Belle Woodworking Company created perhaps the very finest scale kits of early American equipment. The kit features die cut hardwood parts (no balsa) such as pre-cut and scribed sides all cut to the correct size, car ends done in the same fashion, excellent underside and cast metal details, building instructions and plans and decals/transfers. I have seen these models built and they look identical to the real prototypes. The kit has not been started. Inventoried and NOTE: missing both queenpost. Otherwise complete with all other parts, transfers and instructions accounted for. Please read the article on this website about older HO train kits and the modeling revolution they created in the late 1930s/1940s, predating the plastic kit boom by more than a decade.
La Belle D&RG Closed Vestibule Coach HOn3 Narrow Gauge - Craftsman Model, 1/87, HOn3-25
Wood and Metal Model Kit, Box Condition: Good
$24
Please read the article on this website about older HO train kits and the modeling revolution they caused in the late 1930s/1940s. During the golden era of realistic train models, La Belle Woodworking Company created perhaps the very finest scale kits of early American passenger equipment. The kit features die cut hardwood parts (no balsa) such as pre-cut and scribed sides with all windows factory cut, car ends done in the same fashion, carved clerestory roof, tinted clear clerestory window material, working end diaphragms, excellent underside details & other metal details, building instructions and full size plans. I have seen these models built and they look identical to the real prototypes. The kit has not been started and is complete with all parts, plans and instructions.
Hawk Explorer 18 Earth Satellite, 1/20, 553-130
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good-
$119
Accurate scale kit of this NASA interplanetary platform. This model is made of injection molded plastic, metal panels and metal wire and includes a full color decal sheet. Features unusual stand that allows the satellite to spin (see box top left and right) and 'appears to defy gravity.' Never started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions.
CMK M-41 Gorilla Howitzer Motor Carriage, 1/35, RA016
Resin Model Kit, Box Condition: Good+
$189
Very, very rare. This is a highly detailed, professional quality model made of high-definition resin and many photoetched details on two frets. Never started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions.
Yellow Cat Japanese Army Type 4 Medium Tank Chi-To, 1/35, 35029
Resin Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed NM
$149
Very, very rare and highly detailed model cast in high definition resin. Never started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes instructions. From tanks-encylopedia.com: The Type 97 Chi-Ha's successor - Type 4 Chi-To.Among the various medium tank designs developed in 1944, the Chi-To was probably the most promising. The development started while the Type 97 Chi-Ha Kai was still in production in 1943. The specifications were simple, requiring 75 mm (2.95 in) of armor and a high velocity 75 mm (2.95 in) gun. It was intended to be used against the most current Allied tank of the time, the M4 Sherman. The Type 4 Chi-To plans were ready in early 1944, but production was delayed due to steel shortages, mostly reserved to the Imperial Navy. Allied bombings and US submarine tactics also played their role in these shortages. Eventually, only two were built, a prototype and a pre-production vehicle, tested in 1944. Mitsubishi planned an optimistic 25 tank delivery rate per month, which was never realized. In the fall of 1944, it was decided to keep these tanks for the defense of the Japanese home islands. It is not known if the pre-production tank ever reached full operational status. Nonetheless, if the war took another course and the Olympic Operation would have been carried out, the Type 4 Chi-To would have been a formidable opponent, equal to the late variants of the Sherman. It was the most advanced Japanese tank to reach pre-operational level during WWII.
Tamiya KV-1 Type C Russian Heavy Tank, 1/35, MT334
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good
$32
Highly detailed and beautifully molded armor kit. The kit has never been started. Internal factory sealed bags including decals and instructions.
Tamiya Type 90 Tank With Mine Roller, 1/35, 35236
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed NM
$38
Still factory sealed.
Aurora De Haviland DH-10 Bomber - Playcraft Issue, 1/48, 125
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good
$59
SALE!! Rare Aurora Great Britain issue made by Playcraft Toys Ltd, London. Dated 1957 with classic Jo Kotula box art. Please note that the Sunburst Logo has "Playcraft Hobby Kits" in the border and not 'Famous Fighters' like the USA issues have. Although made in England, it is molded in the same glossy dark olive drab, black and clear plastic as the US issue. Never started. Inventoried 100% complete with all parts, decals and instructions. The box has wear and creasing as shown and a 1cm x 1cm area of pen writing on the left short side panel.
Monogram PBY-5A Catalina Cool Cat, 1/104, PA8-98
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
$79
1955 issue with great box art. This was Monogram's 8th plastic aircraft kit and sported the fine fit and finish that they soon became famous for. This model has the black rubber tires is the second issue; the only difference from the first issue is the "PA" vs. "P" part number. Features rotating propellers, optional retracted or 'landing' position floats, two torpedoes and two crew members. Molded in medium blue and clear with the black rubber tires. The kit has never been started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions.