Monogram Piper Tri-pacer Sport Airplane, 1/32, 0025
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed Mint
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Still factory sealed. 1995 reissue of original four star kit, utilizing the original box art from 1957. Very nicely molded and detailed. Features opening doors, full interior detailing, removable cowling, engine and two figures (plus politically incorrect dead wildcat).
Pyro Frigate USS Constitution - 'Old Ironsides', C313-60
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc++
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Early hardbox issue with great artwork. Nicely molded small scale ship model. Includes display stand and stowed sails. Never started. Factory sealed bag or inventoried 100% complete with all parts and instructions.
Hasegawa Lockheed S-3A Viking - With Airfix Decals for VS-21 USS Kennedy or VS-26 USS America, 1/72, 1142
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG
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Highly detailed kit features full cockpit detail, optional position crew boarding door, detailed wheel wells, extending MAD boom, external fuel tanks and weapons. Never started. Factory sealed bag or inventoried 100% complete with all parts, decals and instructions. NOTE: the original decals are not present but have been replaced with an intact Airfix 1/72 S-3A Viking decal sheet.
Frog Supermarine Spitfire 8/9 Fighter Bomber - 72 Sq 324 Wing Flt. Lt Emmanuel Galatzine 'Operation Dragoon' France 1944 or 447 Sq CO Sqn Ldr Bruce Watson Morotai Island South Pacific 1945, 1/72, F237
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc+
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Final issue with the late 1970s Frog logo. Includes parts and decals to build either version. Well molded. 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. 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.
MPC Pro Street Mustang Street Machine, 1/25, 6329
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed Mint
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Still factory sealed. Features huge supercharged Ford V-8 Engine, detailed chassis and suspension, flame decals and custom flip-open front end. Molded in chrome, clear, orange and rubber. Over 100 parts.
Revell Larry Minor Racing 'McDonald's' Rail Dragster, 1/25, 7354
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG++
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Nicely detailed dragster driven by Ed "The Ace" McCulloch. Never started. Factory sealed bag or inventoried 100% complete with all parts, decals and instructions.
UPC South Goodwin Lightship (Ex-Frog - Trinity House Lightship), 1/109, 5012-400
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Fair++
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From high quality Frog molds. Very large and well detailed model. The box top has clear tape on it. The kit has never been started. Internal factory sealed bag or inventoried 100% complete including decals and instructions. UPC stood for Universal Powermaster Corporation which was based out of New York City, NY. UPC did not cut their own molds, but bought kits already molded from other manufacturers and re-boxed the kits in the USA. Scott Eidson, the famous artist best known for his artwork with Revell, also did UPC box art in the 1960s. All UPC production ended in the 1970s.
ATP Fokker F-28 Mk 4000 - Bagged, 1/144
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Fair++
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Includes a nicely injection molded F-28 with full landing gear and ATP cockpit, side window and door decals. The kit has never been started. Internal factory sealed bag or inventoried 100% complete including decals and instructions.
Hasegawa Grumman F9F-2 Panther - US Navy VF-123 / Marines VMF-115 / 1949 Blue Angels - (F9F2), 1/72, B22
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG++
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Very nicely molded model featuring fine recessed panel lines, good cockpit and landing gear/well detail, optional position speed brakes, two piece canopy, rocket loadout, and a large and colorful decal sheet for the three aircraft listed. Never started. Factory sealed bag with decals and instructions.
Revell McDonnell-Douglas DC-10 Western Airlines, 1/144, H141
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Fair-
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Nice 1973 1/144 Tri-Jet kit. McDonnell-Douglas and Lockheed both produced tri-jets for an over-estimated market, which lead to neither design being very financially successful. This kit comes with Western decals in excellent condition. (Please see the two articles on this site about using older decals.) Never started. Factory sealed bag or inventoried 100% complete with all parts, decals and instructions. NOTE: box top is missing both short ends.
Revell Douglas DC-10-30 - Lufthansa Air Lines, 1/144, H120
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc+
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1970s Revell of Germany issue. Nicely molded. Features detailed landing gear, clear cockpit and cabin windows and a large sheet of Lufthansa markings. The kit has never been started. Internal factory sealed bag or inventoried 100% complete including decals and instructions. McDonnell-Douglas and Lockheed both produced tri-jets for an over-estimated market, which lead to neither design being very financially successful.
Airfix BAC Canberra B(1)6 Royal Air Force or B.20 Royal Australian Air Force, 1/72, 05012-8
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG-
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Can be built as RAF or RAAF version. Features full cockpit, moving control surfaces, dual position landing gear, a wide variety of external stores, bomb bay detail and optional position bomb bay doors. Never started. Factory sealed bag or 100% inventoried with all parts/decals and instructions present.
ID Models Grumman C-2A Greyhound Conversion Kit - Bagged, 1/72
Vacuform Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed
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Still factory staple sealed. Rare vacuform conversion. Base kit not included - Fujimi Hawkeye required. Includes markings guide.
Lindberg Vought OS2U Kingfisher - Wheels or Floats, 1/72, 481-60
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc++++
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1967 hardbox issue with artwork by Tom Morgan. Includes all parts for a land based Kingfisher or floatplane as shown on the box artwork. Never started. Factory sealed bag or 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.
MPC B-29 Superfortress Profile Series - Enola Gay / Bockscar / 'Honshu Hawk' 875th BG 73 BW / Flight Leader 19th BG 314 BW, 1/72, 2-3001
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Fair-
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Highly detailed kit with many working features. Has complete interior, opening bomb bay doors, full bomb bay detail and weapons load, moving control surfaces and optional position landing gear. 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. The box is water damaged but the parts inside are mint. The decals and intact but have a small area that shows very light water damage. 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.
Frog Martin Marauder II (B-26C) - USAF / France / South Africa, 1/72, F338
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
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Orange Series. Has decals for all three Air Forces. High quality Frog kit - no rivets, just fine panel lines for a realistic model. Features separately molded rudder, elevator and ailerons, pilot and gunner figure and detailed engines with rotating propellers. Inventoried 100% complete with all parts decals and instructions.
MPC Grumman F6F Hellcat with Five Crewmen, 1/72, 2-0110
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed Mint
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Still factory sealed. From Airfix molds.
Bandai German 75mm Anti-Tank Gun and Crew, 1/48, 8253-200
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
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Rare 1/48 scale kit. Part of the classic and highly detailed Bandai Pin Point 1/48 armor series. These kits are beautifully molded and feature detail and many operating features. Includes very detailed crew members that can be posed in almost any position. Never started. Factory sealed bag or inventoried 100% complete with all parts and instructions.
Strombecker Cessna L-19 Bird Dog US Army Liaison Aircraft Flying Model- 14 inch Wingspan, 1/24, FM26-100
Vacuform Model Kit, Box Condition: NM+
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In addition to a fine line of solid wooden models and a handful of injection molded kits, Strombecker branched out into flying models. One feature of this line was some fantastic box art by Cal Smith. This kit contains vacuform plastic parts (26 total) and has a wingspan of 14 inches. Power is by rubber band motor with a plastic prop. The kit has not been started and is complete. Includes all plastic/metal parts, full decals and complete instructions.
Eduard Bell X-1 - 'Glamorous Glennis' #46-062 Flown by Capt. Chuck Yeager or NACA Flight Test Aircraft #46-063, 1/48, 8026
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG
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Unusual 1/48 scale X-1. Features all fine recessed panel lines, optional parts to correctly build one of two serial numbers, detailed cockpit, optional position entry hatch, detailed landing gear and markings for both aircraft. The kit has never been started. Internal factory sealed bag including decals and instructions.