Plastic Model Kits
Frog Fairchild C-119 Packet Flying Boxcar, 1/179, 387P
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good-
$54
Very rare, small-scale kit from the 1950s. Nicely molded with all recessed panel lines and includes a clear canopy and clear Frog 'teardrop' two-piece display stand and decals for the box top aircraft including the colorful blue fin flash. This kit has not been started. Inventoried 100% complete with all parts, decals and instructions.
Frog Douglas B-26B Invader, 1/122, 385P
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good+
$70
From about 1957. Rare first logo Frog kit in a small scale. Molded in silver and clear with all recessed panel lines, full decals and correct early display stand. 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.
Frog McDonnell F-4K / F-4M Phantom II - Fleet Air Arm FG.1 829 Sq RNAS Yeovilton 1969 or RAF FGR.2 No. 31 Sq Bruggen, Germany 1973, 1/72, F262
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good-
$32
Final logo issue from the 1970s. Features cockpit and crew, optional position landing gear, a wide array of weapons including air-to-ground missiles, iron bombs, drop tank and AIM-7 Sparrows for a number of configurations and decals with a three-view full color paint guide for the two aircraft listed. The kit has never been started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions.
Frog Avro Lancaster Heavy Bomber, 1/96, 359P
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good-
$65
Very rare 1950s issue. Features clear turrets and canopy, rotating propellers & wheel, paint guide and decals for Lancaster WPF or VNN. Includes the correct large format display stand and glue capsule. Never started and inventoried complete with all parts, decals and instructions. Decals and instructions are in amazing 'excellent++' condition. NOTE: as is typical with these kits, the glue capsule burst and melted one short section of of one lower landing strut. While all four propeller are present, one propeller blade was melted completely away. I have included another early black plastic propeller that has only slightly larger blades; it could be used to fabricate a replacement blade if you wish. The box is 100% complete and solid with four original corners, no tears, missing litho, price tags or tape (other than age marks from the original factory sealing tape). However, it has been darkened as shown.
Encore Mig-3 x.6/12 With True Details Resin / Mig-3 z.6 With True Details Resin / Yak-9D / Yak-9 DD/T/K, 1/72, 1022
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc++
$38
SALE!! Includes all four kits. All four are never started and the parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions. Both Mig-3 kits includes True Details resin cockpit, alternate exhausts, corrected intakes, 30mm underwing cannon and weighted tires. All models have recessed panel lines and decals with paint guides for three different aircraft.
Armory SA-22 Greyhound - Russian Anti-Aircraft Weapons System - Sabotage Models, 1/72, 72401
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
$38
Rare, hard-to-find Armory Models Group issue that is very highly detailed. Features 299 plastic pieces, 4 resin parts, 7 clear parts, 9 rubber parts and 28 photoetched details. Never started and inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions.
Atlantis US Space Missiles - (ex Monogram Missil Arsenal), 1/128, M6871
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed NM
$38
Still factory sealed. Recent reissue from the original 1969 Monogram molds. Perfect builder as it is molded in almost the exact same white plastic and blue base as the original and has duplicates of the original decals. This is the original 1959 'Four Star Missile Arsenal' kit updated in 1969 by adding some missiles (such as the Spartan and Sprint ABMs) and deleting older ones.
AMT Stinson Reliant SR-9, 1/48, T639
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good
$38
1970s issue featuring optional position cabin doors, full interior, pilot figure, detailed engine and exhaust ring as well as full decals. Never started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions. The famous and beautiful gull-winged SR-9 was the 1937 version of the SR series which began in 1933 and continued in production until 1941. The aircraft was popular and saw use as personal transports and executive planes. Five passenger could be seated in deluxe accommodations. The military used 45 privately owned SRs during WWII. Today this aircraft is very valuable and sought after by collectors and restorers.
AMT-Hasegawa Mig-21 Fishbed (Early) - Iraqi / Cuban / Czech Airforce Markings, 1/72, A623-100
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good
$22
Includes very unusual decals for Cuba and Iraqi Air Forces as well as Czech. This kit is part of an early 1970s effort by AMT to market quality Hasegawa kits in the USA. Hasegawa made the kits and decals in Japan and shipped them to AMT, who supplied the boxes and marketing. The kit has never been started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions.
Airfix Grumman J2F6 Duck - Wartime or Postwar Markings, 1/72, 263
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Fair+
$30
1960s type Three logo issue. The amazing Duck first flew in 1934, saw service all through WWII and was not phased out until the mid 1950s. This is a very nicely molded and detailed model that features markings for both aircraft, under-wing bomb load, optional position canopy, interior with crew members, lower cabin for passengers, optional position landing gear and more. Never started. Inventoried 100% complete with all parts, decals and instructions present. The box is heavily worn but the decals and instructions are both in 'excellent' condition.
Airfix Curtis Helldiver SB2C - VB-8 USS Ticonderoga 1945 / VA-102 US Navy Reserve Sq Glenview 1948, 1/72, 02031
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
$30
Dated 1986 and features 76 pieces, folding wings, optional partsfor S2BC-4 or -5 variants, interior detail, canopy molded in the correct five different sections for optional positions, two position bomb bay doors, internal bomb load and external drop tanks and wing mounted missiles. Includes decals and paint guide for both aircraft listed. Never started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions.
Airfix Ancient Britons - HO Scale / OO Scale, 1/76, 01734-9
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed Exc+
$18
Still factory sealed and from 1975. Very highly detailed figures with accessories; includes 43 total pieces.
Airfix Boeing B-29 Superfortress - Joltin' Josie The Pacific Pioneer Or Eddie Allen, 1/72, 07001
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good
$42
1992 issue of this very popular model first issued in the 1960s. Highly detailed for that time and features 205 pieces, a 'very good' cockpit and interior crew stations with access tube & bulkheads, opening bomb bay doors, full bomb bay detail & large bomb load, moving ailerons, elevators and rudder, rotating turrets with elevating guns, twin row radial engines, rotating propellers, optional position rear crew door and boarding ladder, optional position landing gear and more. Includes paint guide and decals for both aircraft listed. The kit has never been started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions.
Airfix Red Arrows Gnat, 1/72, 01036
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good
$16
Nicely detailed model with Red Arrow decals. Never started and inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions.
Airfix Shorts Tucano T1 - RAF No. 1 Flying Training School Linton-On-Ouse 1997 / RAF Central Flying School Scampton 1994, 1/72, 03059
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good
$14
Well detailed model with a very good cockpit, two crew, detailed gear wells, optional position speed brake and more. NOTE: this kit has very minor, 'professional' quality subassembly as follows: two seats glued to the floor. There is no other assembly. Inventoried 100% complete and includes decals and instructions.
Novo Canberra Low Level Bomber - English Electric BAC Canberra B(1) Mk.8 or B(1)Mk. 12 - RAF No. 88 Sq Wildenrath W. Germany 1960 or South African No. 12 Sq. Waterkloof 1969 - (ex Frog), 1/72, 78090
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG++
$18
From original Frog molds. Like most Frog kits, this model does not have out-of-scale rivet detail but has very fine panel lines only, which makes it easy to build up to a very realistic model. Includes parts and decals for either version. The kit has never been started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions.
Novo DH-88 Comet Racer - (ex Frog) - Bagged, 1/72, F168
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
$19
This older but excellent quality kit build a realistic model of the famous 'Golden Age' of aviation racer. Never started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions. Includes figures of Capt. Scott and Capt. Black, the famous Comet pilots who won the 1934 MacRobertson Air Race from England to Australia. The DH-88 was designed specifically for this race and performed wonderfully.
Novo Supermarine Attacker Naval Fighter - (ex Frog), 1/72, F330
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed Mint
$14
Still factory sealed and from the the original Frog molds.
Novo Gloster Whittle E28/39 Pioneer - Bagged - (ex Frog), 1/72, F174
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed
$14
Still factory sealed. From quality Frog molds and a nice kit of this early British Jet.
Orange Crush-Revell 1915 Ford Model T, 1/32
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good++
$48
Very rare kit with a fascinating history. Around 1958/59, Orange Crush of Mexico offered a promotion. They offered free, colorful, plastic model cars if you collected correctly-marked Orange Crush bottle caps. The models are 1/32 scale Revell Highway Pioneer series - although there is no mention of Revell or Lodela anywhere on the box. Orange Crush had the boxes and even the instructions specially made for them with no mention of a manufacturer. They were never given numbers. The boxes were very thin and fragile cardboard. This has contributed to wear and you must be very cautious with them. The kit has never been started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bag and the instructions are sealed in the bag as well. You could redeem your caps two ways - at the Orange Crush truck and at a Modelandia Hobby House. The box sides show the 18 cars in the series. Orange Crush also released two full-color booklets and a complete paint set for the cars. A colorful cardboard box held 7 colors of paint in glass bottles, complete with 'Orange Crush' screw-on caps! The entire promotion was done in coordination with Modelandia Hobby House which had up to 19 stores. Modelandia's name appears on each of the boxes and the paint as well. Robina S.A. was the bottler or distributor of Orange Crush in Mexico at that time. The box side lists the other 18 kits with small color pictures of each and shows three sizes of OC - Family Size (Familiar), Grand (Grande) and Normal. You could also obtain models with Titan bottle caps. Titan was also bottled by Robina and came in large (Titan) and smaller (Titancito) sizes and apparently more than one flavor. We do not know how Orange Crush had access to the plastic kits or who sealed the internal bags with the Crush instructions inside them. We can assume that it may have been Lodela, since they would have had access to the Revell molds. It is not know for how long the promotion lasted, but Orange Crush was one of the most dominant soft drinks in Mexico at that time. Here is one clue: some boxes claim that Modelandia had 13 locations; other boxes, which obviously came later on, claim 19 locations. This may indicate that this promotion went on for a significant amount of time.