The Aviators Mitsubishi G4M1 Betty Bomber, 1/48, 4805
Vacuform Model Kit, Box Condition: VG
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From about 1990; a flyer announces two other kits due 'July 1991.' Beautiful vac kit with cast pewter detail parts. Features very high quality white main vac parts. Quality is higher than many injection molded kits; moldings are crisp and have fine recessed panel lines. There is a full set of clear vacuform canopies and blisters (still in mint condition and not yellowed) and two sealed bags of excellent castings including engine fronts, props, tail wheel and strut, main gear struts, machine guns, yoke and more. Does include a fair amount of cockpit detail. Never started and complete with instructions and two pages of Betty drawings including cockpit and bombardier detail. There is also a flyer for the rest of the line of kits.
Aeroclub Pobjoy Engine and Prop, 1/72, AEP002
Metal Model Kit, Box Condition: VG
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Precision metal castings. Contains engine/cowl and prop. Much greater detail than injection molding. Never used and complete.
MPC B-24D Liberator Profile Series - 466th BG 8th AF / 98th BG 15th AF / Liberator B Mk. VI 356 Sq SEAC, 1/72, 2-2001-200
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good
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Contains markings for three aircraft: 466 BG, 8th AF - 98 BG, 15th AF and RAF 356 Sqdn, SEAC. Well detailed kit. Guns and turrets move. Movable control surfaces. Retracting landing gear. Rotating props. Optional position crew entry door and ladder. Never started. Factory sealed internal bag with decals and instructions. Decals are 'excellent', but please read the articles on this website about 'Using or Restoring Old Decals' before using any older kit decals.
MPC P-51D Mustang Profile Series - USAF 317th FS 325 FG 15th AF Vicenzu Italy / 375th FS 361 FG 8th AF Little Walden Herts / 363 FS 357 FG 8th AF Leiston Suffolk UK, 1/72, 2-1116-100
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed Exc+++
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Still factory sealed. In the 1970s, MPC released the very popular 'Profile Series'. Inside each box was a quality Airfix kit but with MPC decals to build any of the three aircraft shown on the box top. Features pilot, optional position landing gear, belly tank and painting/marking guide for all three versions.
MPC Bell P-39 Airacobra Profile Series - 362 Fighter Sq Hayward AFB Calif. 1943 / GC111/6 Free French Air Force N. Africa / 93rd FW 81st FG Tunisia 1953, 1/72, 2-1117-100
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed Fair
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Still factory sealed, but the box has a split down the middle. In the 1970s, MPC released the very popular Profile Series. Inside each box was a quality Airfix kit but with MPC decals to build any of the three aircraft shown on the box top.
MPC Focke-Wulf FW-190D Profile Series - JG54 Achmer 1944 / JG26 'Schlageter Handrup 1944 / JG52 Rhein-Main 1945, 1/72, 2-1109-100
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
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In the 1970s, MPC released the very popular Profile Series. Inside each box was a quality Airfix kit but with MPC decals to build any of the three aircraft shown on the box top. Well detailed kit. This kit has never been started. It is either still in the internally sealed factory bag or has been inventoried 100% complete with all parts, decals and instructions.
Aurora Boeing KC-135 Jet Stratotanker, 1/125, 143-130
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
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Dated 1963 and from ex-Comet molds. This is the largest of the two Comet molds and has cockpit and cabin clear windows and full landing gear and a 'tanker' rear end and flying boom (although the box art does not show it). Molded in gloss gray and clear. This model was given a clear Aurora two piece 'triangle world' stand, unlike many of the other Comet kits which only had a modified version of their original stands included. Of course this is not the production KC-135 but a model of the Boeing prototype. The kit has never been started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions.
Unknown Junkers Ju-52 Tante Ju Transport, 1/32
Vacuform Model Kit, Box Condition: VG+
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Very high quality vac kit with metal details. Molding detail is of higher quality than many injection molded kits. Can be built civil or military, wheeled version only. Features optional wheel pants, cockpit interior with floor, seats, instrument panel, center engine/instrument console, rudder pedals and metal details, superb vacuform main parts, numerous cast metal details including full engines, props, exhaust, tail wheel strut, main gear struts and more, optional fuselage-top machine gun assembly that is a full kit by itself with cast metal parts and numerous photoetched brass parts, clear vac canopies and blister (still in excellent shape and not yellowed) and full size, detailed plans with detailed assembly drawings & full instructions (in German). You can translate them to English by typing them into Google Translate online. Never started and inventoried complete with all parts and plans. Unless you specify otherwise, this kit will ship in the sturdy original shipping box. The manufacturer is unknown, but the kit was made in Germany. It may have been made by Hobbymodellbau F. Schmidt Mufferstadt Germany. I say this because their name is on the Ju-52 upper gun mounting mini-kit.
Hasegawa Grumman F11F-1 Tiger Short Nose - (F11F1)Special Edition VA-156, 1/72, 00357
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc++
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Very rare. Includes conversion parts for short nose Tiger, and special decals for VA-156 'Iron Tigers.' The kit has never been started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions.
Midwest Wally Simmers' Sniffer - 29 inch Wingspan Contest or Sport Free flight Model Airplane, FG1
Wood Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
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Built for 'Sniffing Thermals', the honored pastime of a generation of model enthusiasts. Flying model aircraft predated powered flight; however, balsa wood and printwood were not introduced until the early 1930s and the hobby took off, as well as the hunt for thermals. Gas flight began in the early 1930s, and early gas powered models, all powered by Brown engines, took home so many awards that they were forever separated in competition from rubber powered models. Design of gas models was tricky since RC (radio control) models could not yet be applied to the mass market; so a gas model had to not only fly and climb under power, but then glide sufficiently - all without any operator inputs once the airplane took off. Getting the wing up out of the propeller airflow was a huge improvement, and this type of design proliferated. This is one example of a parasol (with a clever cabin) style 1940s free-flight competition aircraft designed by Wally Simmers. Quality kit includes printwood, strip wood, wheels, tissue and beautiful full size plans. The model has not been started. The parts are either in factory sealed bag(s) or inventoried 100% complete with all parts and instructions.
Comet Aeronca Sedan Struct-O-Speed Deluxe Issue, 2301
Wood Model Kit, Box Condition: Good
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Deluxe version; please read carefully. 1960s issue with a 13.25 inch wingspan. Comet would advertise that the Struct-O-Speed series 'Puts Itself Together...That Quick!' on the box top, and it was not a completely idle boast. This exactly model is highly prefabricated and more along the lines of a Speedee-Bilt than a Comet kit. Features a completely machine formed and finished wing with airfoil (like the Monofoil wing), other factory carved parts, die-cut and factory painted balsa sheet parts, a beautiful scale plastic full cowl, plastic prop and thrust bushing, fully formed wire landing gear and prop shaft/rubber hook, finished wheels, rubber motor, complete plans with instructions and even color insignia. Never started and complete. Comet was a famous manufacturer of stick and tissue flying and static models. In the 1930s Great Depression, they lead the low-priced kit revolution with the "Dime Scale" kits and famous advertisements in Model Airplane News magazine and others. Comet reached it's peak in the 1930s when they acquired the services of Carl Goldberg. Goldberg was a highly accomplished modeler with articles in Model Airplane News and famous designs that won him several National level competitions in the 1930s and beyond. (Carl Goldberg went on to found his own company and produced well designed and popular free-flight and RC aircraft). Comet survived the post World War economic slump and continued kit production until they were bought out by long-time competitor Guillow's in 1998.
Frog HS Buccaneer S.Mk 2A / S.Mk 50 - RAF No. 12 Sq Honington 1970 or South African SAAF No. 24 Sq Waterkloof 1970, 1/72, F238
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
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Typical high quality Frog kit with no rivets and fine panel lines for a realistic model. Features steering nose strut, four anti-ship missiles on wing pylons and optional position landing gear. Has decals for both Air Forces. Kit features opening unique rotating bomb bay, folding wings and working arresting hook. Never started. NOTE: missing display stand. Otherwise inventoried with all other parts, decals and instructions. The Buccaneer was the world's first purpose designed low level 'below the radar' bomber. Low level strike aircraft have a shorter airframe life limit due to the stresses of low level flying, so the Buccaneer was designed to be very strong and even had many sub-assemblies milled from solid metal.
Trimaster Focke-Wulf FW-190 D-9 - Langnasen-Dora With Cutting Edge Cockpit / Eagle Parts Update / Aeromaster Decals / Lifelike Decals, 1/48, MA-1
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc+
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From 1987. Includes four aftermarket accessories: Cutting Edge CEC48085 Cuper Detailed Cockpit (factory sealed), EagleParts #4-48 FW-190D-9 Update Set (never used and complete), Aeromaster #48-719 Late Doras Part 1 (never used and mint) and Lifelike Decals #529 FW-190 markings including two markings for D-9s (never used and mint). The kit itself if of legendary Trimaster quality. Kit features two frets of photoetched parts, numerous metal castings, brass and metal rod as well as all recessed detail on the plastic moldings. Large decal sheet and paint guide for several different aircraft. The kit has never been started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions.
Hobby Boss F-111D / F-111E Aardvark + 3x Eduard PE Detail Sets, 1/48, 80350
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: NM
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Includes Eduard #48668 F-111 Engine PE Details, Eduard 49500 F-111 PE Late Seatbelts and Eduard #FE505 Painted FE Cockpit details. All three are still factory sealed. The model itself is from recent molds and is very impressive. It is likely the finest 1/48 F-111 kit ever produced. It features all recessed detail, excellent cockpit, optional position canopy, detailed radar with removable nose, detailed main and nose gear wells, separately molded leading edge slats and trailing edge flaps, optional position wing spoilers, two detailed engines, detailed internal weapons bay with optional position doors, a wide variety of weapons and decals for 55th TFS 55FS 'Heart Breaker or 'Tigers Head' Fairford 1991. The kit has never been started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions.
Monogram OS2U-3 Kingfisher - RAF Or US Navy - Blue Box Issue - (OS2U3), 1/48, PA135-150
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed VG
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Still factory sealed. First issue dated 1966. This kit is part of the very famous line of 1/48 scale World War II action kits. Finely molded and detailed for that time with traditional Monogram quality. Features optional parts so you can built a the ship-based (float) or wheeled land version, good cockpit detail, underwing bombs, elevating and rotating gun, pilot and gunner figures, five piece canopy that can be positioned closed or in several open configurations and choice of US Navy or Royal Navy decals. The Royal Navy aircraft were called Kingfisher I and 100 of them were delivered with both wheel and float gear. The US Navy aircraft is that of Lieutenant William F. Eadie from a Kingfisher squadron based in the Ellice Islands. He spotted and rescued Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker and his companions after they had been on a raft in the Pacific for 21 days and virtually given up for lost. Lt. Eadie moved the most injured into the radio compartment while Rickenbacker and the other crew member were lashed to the wings. Eadie figured that the aircraft could not fly, and luckily he met a PT boat and transfered the uninjured men to it.
Enterprise Pee Wee Sportster 1/2A - 32 inch Wingspan for Free Flight or R/C Conversion, FF-250
Wood Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc-
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Original free flight design by Jerry Brofman. Very high quality complete kit with all die cut parts and complete plans. Good for sport, precision and PAA flying. The model has not been started. The parts are either in factory sealed bag(s) or inventoried 100% complete with all parts and instructions.
Rareplane Fisher P-75A Eagle - With Injection Molded Details, 1/72
Vacuform Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc-
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Very high quality vacuform kit with moldings equal to or better than many injection molded models. Features very fine detail, complete cockpit and interior, clear canopies and instructions/plans as well as paint and marking guide. Never started. Factory bag is still sealed. Significant modeling skill is required to build vacuform kit. Not recommended for beginners.
Airfix Apollo Saturn V, 1/144, 7060
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG+++
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Still sealed. From 1979. Hard-to-find USAirfix issue. Very well detailed. Includes five separate stages, individual Lunar Excursion Module, Command Module and Service Module, astronaut figures, escape rocket and display stand.
Revell Air Aces of WWII Luukkanens Buffalo / Eaglestons P-47D / Molders Bf-109E, 1/72, H684-100
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed Exc
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Still factory tape sealed on both ends. 1966 one-piece box issue contains all three kits with decals for the famous aces listed. This kit was purchased new on October 4, 1966 at Grants in Cleveland Ohio.
Revell 3 Fighters of the Pacific Ki-84 Frank / P-51D Mustang / Ki-61-1 Tony, 1/72, H686-100
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good+
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1966 issue contains all three aircraft and decals for the box art as shown. The kit has never been started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions. Please note the pen marks on the box - hence the 'good+' rating. There are pen marks on the back of the box also.