Lindberg North American F-100 Super Sabre, 1/48, 528-98
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed NM+
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Still factory sealed and very rare in this condition. The box is in investment-grade 'Near Mint+' condition and the seal is 100% present with just one small 2" split. This late 1950s hardbox issue has incredible Ray Gaedke artwork. The large 1/48 scale F-100 features movable rudder, elevators and ailerons, detailed ejection seat, pilot, full jet engine detail with opening engine access hatch and a load-out of two drop tanks and 8 missiles. Includes colorful decals for the box art aircraft.
Revell Hawker Tempest Mk.V, 1/72, 4123
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed Exc
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Still factory sealed. 1983 issue is an ideal builder because it is from the same molds as the classic 1963 issue. Features optional position landing gear, movable propeller and wheels, pilot figure, clear canopy and RAF markings.
Scale Models 1930 Packard Sport Phaeton - (ex Hubley), 1/22, 4017
Metal Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed NM
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Still factory sealed and from the original 1970s Hubley molds. Well detailed with 137 parts and includes metal body, chassis, hood, engine and other detail parts with injection molded details, clear parts, and a large tree of chrome plated parts. Features a full rolling chassis just like the real car with excellent engine detail, complete exhaust and suspension, working steering, removable hood, flexible radiator hoses, rubber tires, chrome spoke wheels and working worm-gear steering. Has full interior detail with thin clear windshields and special interior side panels. In the 1930s Packard was the style leader in America and a beautiful, fast status symbol. Packards were not the most expensive, but were the most desired cars. The 1930s Packards are seen as the high point of the brand.
Comet Aeronca Seaplane 25 Inch Wingspan And E-16 Fokker D-VII 16 Inch Wingspan - Flying Model Aircraft, E-25
Wood Model Kit, Box Condition: Good
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SALE! Includes two kits in the one box shown. These are both rare stick-and-tissue kits from the 1950s. The Aeronca Seaplane is never started and complete with all parts and full size plans. The Fokker D-VII is also never stared, and complete with all parts and plans. These are both typical stick and tissue flying models with printwood, stringer and spars factory cut, tissue and more. With full size plans with construction tips. 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.
Cleveland Col. W.A. Bishops Nieuport Scout Biplane - 13 Inch Wingspan Free-Flight Rubber Powered Flying Aircraft, 1/24, D-12
Wood Model Kit, Box Condition: Good+
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Very rare and from 1936. This is a Cleveland 'D' or dwarf kit. The term 'Dwarf' is just a bit deceptive, as it is Cleveland's designation for 1/24 scale. Most Cleveland kits were designated 'SF' or Scale Flying - 1/16 scale. The Dwarf kits were needed to fill a market demand for smaller flying models. The kit came from a long time collector of 1930s and 1940s models and is in exceptional condition. All Cleveland kits were exceptionally complete and this one is no exception. Features two sheetes of very high quality balsa printwood, stringers & spars, fully formed nacelle and wheels, covering tissue, a wood propeller that is about 90% carved and just needs final sanding, gray rigging thread, metal and balsa stock as required, full color insignia and more. With Cleveland's famous high-quality plans. The model has not been started. Inventoried complete with all parts and paperwork present. Cleveland Model and Supply Company played a pivotal role in the development of true scale models. In 1909 Bleriot's English Channel flight caused a surge in aviation and model aircraft around the globe. Several companies were ideally positioned to take advantage of the aviation craze. In the USA, Wading River Manufacturing Co. (1909), White Aeroplane (1911), Ideal Model Aeroplane (1911), Broadfield Model Aeroplanes (1919) were among these pioneers, offering everything from plans and parts to complete kits and ARF models. Lindbergh's 1927 crossing of the Atlantic Ocean caused an even bigger world-wide phenomenon called "The Aviation Craze" that extended up to the start of World War II. Many companies such as Megow, Guillow's and others started right around the time of Lindbergh's flight. Some of these models flew and flew well, but they all had one thing in common - were generally not accurate scale representations. In 1929, a youngster named Ed Packard had a very advanced dream- to produce incredibly accurate, true scale models that flew perfectly. This radical idea established the world's longest running single-owner (77 years) model airplane supply business - Cleveland Model and Supply Company. To this day, Cleveland models are treasured as the most accurate flying scale models produced. The fact that Mr. Packard started and successfully grew this business during The Great Depression is a testament to his ideals and business skill. I highly suggest the excellent book called 'Aviation's great Recruiter - Cleveland's Ed Packard' by H.L. (Herm) Schreiner. It is an excellent history of the man, his company and the times of the Golden Age of Model Aviation.
Jo-Han 1961 Plymouth Fury 2 Door Hardtop 3 in 1 - Custom / Stock / Racing, 1/25, 2361-139
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good
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Very rare kit and ever rarer in never started and complete condition. This is a very good model of a great subject. It features detailed chassis with torsion bars suspension, optional position lowering blocks (for stock or custom), full interior and a host of optional parts such as fender skirts, tach, floor shift, exhaust dump pipes, fender mirrors, chrome horns, dual aerials, louvers, continental kit and more. Molded in light yellow, chrome plate, clear and with rubber wide white-wall tires, metal axles and metal body screws. The kit has never been started. It has been inventoried with all parts and includes decals and instructions. Decals are in amazing 'near mint' condition and the instructions are 'excellent+'. The box is only 'good' because there is bug litho damage which is centered mainly around the edges; there is more on the lower long side than on the top. Please NOTE that on these and other early Jo-Han car kits that the decals pictured on the side are not always the decals that Jo-han placed inside. Jo-Han used more than one generic decal sheet and some of them for at least two years. It also seems that in the early years they used about whatever was laying around, probably as a cost-saving measure. The decal sheet in this kit has does match some of the transfers shown on the box side picture but not all of them.
Revell HMS Victory - Lord Nelson's Flagship - S Issue, H363-298
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good
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First issue 'S' kit dated 1958. As with most all Revell early ship kits, the model is finely molded and very well detailed. It measures about 15 inches long when assembled and features full detail on the top two decks, prefabricated rat lines, vac sails, full rigging material and instructions and display stand. The model has never been started. Inventoried 100% complete with all parts, flags and instructions.
Revell Santa Maria With Sails - 'S' Issue, 1/89, H336-298
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good
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First release of this 1957 'S' kit with famous box art. Very nicely detailed and molded as were most early Revell sailing ship kits. Full hull model features detailed deck fittings, masts & deadeye assemblies, display stand, step-by-step rigging instructions, two different threads for standing and running rigging, factory precut vac billowing sails (still bag sealed and like new) and more. The kit has not been started. Inventoried 100% complete including decals, large colorful flag sheet and instructions.
Revell USCGC Eastwind Icebreaker - 'S' Issue, 1/285, H337-149
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG
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Original issue from 1956 with the classic boxart of this time period at Revell. Like most of Revell's older ship models, this one is well molded and well detailed. Features rotating turrets/elevating guns, helicopter pad with helicopter and full rigging instructions. Molded in correct white, wood brown, and butterscotch. Never started. Inventoried 100% complete with all other parts, decals, flag sheet and instructions. The 269' U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Eastwind, a Polar Class Icebreaker was commissioned on June 3, 1944. This cutter served in the North Atlantic during World War II, and on ice breaking in the Arctic and Antarctic. She was decommissioned in 1968.
Revell SS United States Pre 'S' Kit, 1/602, H312-198
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc+
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Rare 1953 Pre-'S' release with beautiful boxart. This model builds to an excellent display piece of the World's Fastest Ocean Liner. Includes detailed decks and fittings, lifeboats, decals, flags and rigging instructions. Never started and inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions.
AV USK Savoia Marchetti SM-84 Torpedo Bomber, 1/72, 2025
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG
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The SM-84 was the replacement for the SM-79. It served well as a level bomber but did best in the intended torpedo role. SM-84s gave the Royal Navy a hard time in the Med, including torpedoing the Battleship Nelson. Nicely molded limited-run model with all main injection molded parts and resin engines. Never started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions.
Academy Consolidated-Vultee B-24H Liberator - 93rd Bomb Group 8th Air Force England, 1/72, 1693
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good
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Beautiful and highly detailed model of the late model US Army Air Force Liberator. Molded with all fine recessed panel lines. Features excellent cockpit and interior detail, rotating turrets and props, bomb bay detail and full bomb load and optional position doors. Never started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions.
Airfix Grumman J4F Widgeon, 1/72, 10030
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good-
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US Airfix issue from 1979 and a very nicely molded kit for that time. Never starte. Inventoried 100% complete including decals and instructions. The Widgeon saw WWII service as a Coast Gurad transport, trainer and recon aircraft. Before the war, the Widgeon was active in it's original design purpose - as a luxury sport airplane and executive transport amphibian.
Pavla Vought V-156F Vindicator - French Aeronavale AB.1 Fall 1939 / Same-Camo late '39 / VS-42 USS Saratoga Fall 1941 / VMSB-241 Shot Down at the Battle of Midway / USS Ranger Spring 1940, 1/72, 72027
Multimedia Model Kit, Box Condition: VG
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Limited issue kit. Features very fine all recessed panel lines, numerous resin details, many photoetch parts, film instruments and decals and paint guide for the aircraft listed. Never started and inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions.
Pavla Fieseler Fi-167 - Aircraft Carrier Based Torpedo Bomber, 1/72, 72001
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good
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Still the only 1/72 scale injection molded kit of this great subject. This limited production model has injection molded parts with recessed panel lines, numerous photoetched details, very good cockpit and guuner's station, torpedo and bomb load and more. The kit has never been started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions. This unique aircraft was designed in the 1930s as an aircraft carrier-based torpedo bomber. In the fly-off competition with the AR-195 in 1938 the Fieseler proved the superior aircraft. The Technical Office ordered 12 pre-production aircraft for further trials and training on the aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin. But, due to political sabotage by Luftwaffe officials, the ship was not completed. The remaining Fi-167s were sold to abroad.
Comet Aeronca K - 25 Inch Wingspan - Coke Bottle Issue, N25-29
Wood Model Kit, Box Condition: VG
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Rare 1950s/early 1960s stick-and-tissue flying model. Features quality balsa printwood, factory-cut strip & spar stock, covering material and full plans. There is no assembly but NOTE: the parts have been cut out to 'professional' quality...better than any die-cutting could have done. As you know, this is an amazing advantage to the builder and an incredible time saver. Oddly enough, the man who cut them out was one of Monogram's top Chief Designers. He designed and headed up the projects for the B-52, B-17, B-24J, Mosquito, Skyraider A-1E, Hurricane, Spitfire, P-40, at least one (if not all) of the 1/8 scale cars and many, many more. The entire Comet 1950s "N" line included the following (gaps mean there is no kit, at least at that time): N1 Tiger Shark P-40, N2 F-86D Sabre Jet, N4 Globe Swift, N6 Taylorcraft, N8 F-51 Mustang, N9 Helicopter, N11 Ryan Navion, N12 Firefly, N15 Piper Cub, N16 Fokker DVII, N17 Spad, N24 Phantom Fury, N25 Aeronca K (floats) and N26 Stinson SR-7. 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.
IBG Fiat 508/III Wagon / Fiat 508/III Lazik Early Version / Fiat 508/III Lazik Late Version / Fiat 508/III Ambulance, 1/72, 72009
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
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SALE!! Includes all four kits in the original boxes. All four are never started. For the Wagon and early Lazik, the parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions. For the late Lazik and Ambulance, they are inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions.
UM Models TWO BA-10 Armored Vehicles / TWO T-26-4 Tanks / TWO T-26 Tanks With A-43 Turret, 1/72, 319
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
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SALE!! Includes all six kits - there are two in each box. All are never started. They are either still in the factory sealed internal bags or inventoried complete. Includes all paperwork.
Monogram Hawker Hurricane - Mk IIA/Mk IIB/Mk IIC/Mk IID/Mk IV - Blue Box Issue, 1/48, PA90-100
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed VG
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Still factory sealed and the second issue of the classic kit dated 1967. This is part of the popular and very successful Monogram 1/48 WWII line that they started in the 1960s. Features all parts and decals to build any of the five versions, retracting landing gear, rotating propeller & wheels and a wide variety of guns, bombs, rockets and cannon.
Aurora German Pfalz D-3 - (D-III), 1/48, 109-79
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed Mint
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Still factory sealed and in remarkable 'Mint' condition. Features classic Jo Kotula artwork. The box is dated 1957 but this is roughly the third or fourth issue because of the simplified blue-border logo which means it is from about 1963/64. This is part of the famous Aurora WWI series of 1/48 scale aircraft. The series began in 1956 and Aurora added new kits into the early 1960s. The line proved incredibly popular, so these kits were included in the 'mold upgrade' in the 1970s before Aurora went out of business. Monogram even reissued a few of these kits after they purchased the Aurora molds in the late 1970s.