Pit Road USS California CGN-36 - Nuclear Powered Missile Cruiser, 1/700, WL-71
Resin Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
$145
Rare kit with legendary Pit Road quality. Features a fantastic resin cast waterline hull of higher quality than any injection moldings could achieve, large details cast in resin, a large number of precision cast metal small, precision injection molded fine details, metal stock and more. Includes two large and extensive decal sheets and a well detailed, illustrated set of instructions including a painting guide and side elevation & overhead drawings. The kit has never been started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes instructions.
Eduard FW-190A Early Versions Royal Class - And Beer Glass With Unique FW 190A Motif - (FW190A), 1/48, R0016
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG
$160
Very rare limited edition that features the Beer Glass, A2 poster by Piotr Forkasiewicz, two complete FW-190 models with factory-colored interior PE detail parts, Brassin resin details, double set of paint masks for the canopy & wheels, excellent cockpit and gear well detail, separately molded ailerons, elevators & rudder, choice of centerline drop tank, bomb or just the rack and more. Includes and extensive and large decal sheet and full color multi-view paint guide for 14 different aircraft.
Berkeley Curtiss SBC4 Helldiver - 24 Inch Wingspan Flying Model Airplane Kit
Wood Model Kit, Box Condition: Good-
$125
Very early Berkeley kit. This Helldiver features 24 inch wingspan, unique 'Automatic Bomb-Release During Flight', turned balsa cowl, sheets of high-quality printwood, pre-cut stringers and spars, fully formed wheels & thrust button, formed metal propeller shaft/rubber hook, sealed tube of wood glue, clear material for the canopy, metal stock as required, a factory sealed wax bag of hardware, printed color insignia, two colors of covering tissue (orange and silver) and more. Includes full-size plans & instructions. Never started and inventoried complete with all parts and includes insignia and plans. Berkeley is a very famous manufacturer of flying model kits from the Golden Age of flying aviation, about 1932-1954. Founded in 1933 by William Effinger, the company was quite progressive in producing quality kits - it was likely the Berkeley 'Buccaneer' was the first gas powered model in kit form. In the later 1930s, Effinger acquired the services of a very talented Henry Struck. Struck went on to design numerous award-winning kits under the Berkeley name. Berkeley weathered the post WWII recession and emerged as a major kit producer in the late 1940 and 1950s. These were great years for Berkeley and they produced some incredible and large kits. The company went bankrupt in about 1960 however. Fox engines (Duke Fox) bought the company and released the kits alongside his own FOX models and engines. This arrangement did not last, and in the early 1960s the Berkeley name disappeared from hobby shop shelves.
Fujimi TWO Douglas A-1H Skyraider - Plus Airmodel Conversion, 1/70, 0780-250
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good
$24
SALE!! Includes two kits in one box. Kit #1 is never started and inventoried with all parts and decals present. NOTE: missing instructions. For kit #2, it has never been started but NOTE: missing drop tanks and rear canopy. Otherwise includes all other parts and decals. The Airmodel Conversion Kit includes instructions and white plastic and clear canopy conversion parts for both AD-4W Skyraider and TBM-3W/S/U Avengers. It has been inventoried complete but NOTE: the radar dome for the AD-4W has been assembled to 'professional' quality.
Skywave HMS Escort Carrier D-24 Tracker - (Ruler Class), 1/700, W-3
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG
$42
Very highly detailed waterline carrier kit which also includes RAF B-17 and PBY Catalina Coastal Command aircraft. The kit has never been started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions. Decals include hull numbers for other ships of the class.
Testors Convair TB-58A Operational Trainer, 1/72, 676
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good-
$46
Hard-to-find kit of the specially modified B-58 Trainer. Very nicely detailed featuring over 120 pieces, all fine recessed panel lines, full cockpit trim with seats, instrument panels & dual controls, current rendering of TB-58 crew windows, optional position cockpit hatches, detailed landing gear wells, four Mk43 Nuclear Bombs on wing racks, four Mk.43 wing rack bombs, MB pod, BLU-2/B-3 fuel and weapons pod and much more. Includes extensive decals and paint guide for the colorful red/white/silver aircraft shown on the cover '5670' and the last TB-58 built, 'Wild Child'. The kit has never been started. Internal factory sealed including decals and instructions.
Airfix Rommel (D-187) / Lutjens (D-185) / Molders (D-186)- West German Naval Destroyer, 1/600, 02202-0
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG+
$44
Well molded with finely molded details like most Airfix ship kits. Kit features full hull, detailed deck and weapons, full screw and rudder details and decals for the three ships listed. Never started and inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions.
Revell AH-64 Apache Attack Helicopter, 1/32, 4575
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good
$48
Very large scale helicopter features highly detailed fuselage, rotors, engine pods, rough field landing gear, complete cockpit interior and instrument panels, rotating 18 inch main rotor and tail rotor, two figures, pivoting 20mm chain gun, 2.75 inch rocket pods, Hellfire missiles, AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles and more. Molded in olive drab and clear. Never started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions.
Lindberg Me-109F Destroyer - Bf-109F, 1/72, 586-50
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG
$28
Early 1960s one-piece box issue with a full color trading card on the back. Never started. Inventoried 100% complete with all parts, decals and instructions.
Hawk Supermarine S6B Racer - Picture Gallery Issue, 1/48, 700-69
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good
$34
Rare. Late 1950s hardbox Picture Gallery Issue. The hard-to-find 'Picture Gallery' series was Hawk's first move away from the thin one piece boxes and to full color artwork. The artist doing this early work fell sick and Hawk needed the artwork immediately, hence the short run. Bill Campbell was immediately contacted and did all of the box art for Hawk until Tom Morgan entered the picture. Molded in silver and clear plastic. Never started. Inventoried 100% complete with all parts, decals and instructions present.
Aurora Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, 1/156, 491-49
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good
$125
Very rare first issue from 1956 with the 'Northern Lights' rectangular logo. This logo was only used one year. This famous model is also part of the '12 O'Clock High' B-17 Set. Features many clear windows and clear turret 'blisters', nose turret and tail guns, landing gear, rotating propellers and a display stand. Inside, the kit is 100% correct for a first issue. It includes the early clear West Hempstead rectangular stand, instructions showing this stand and the correct decal sheet with no stand decal. Molded in gloss dark green and clear. This kit has never been started. Inventoried 100% complete with all parts, decals and instructions present. Decals are in 'excellent+' condition and the instructions are near mint. Even includes the original factory tissue packing paper. Please NOTE that this is a later 1956 release since the instructions, while still showing the old rectangle stand, have the famous fighters logo. Aurora began putting 'new logo' instructions into kits before the end of 1956.
Modelcraft DH-6C Twin Otter - Floats or Landing Gear - (ex Matchbox) - Kenn Borek Air Ltd. 2002 / Maldvian Air Taxi 2000 / Alaska Airlines 1970 / Norontair 1978 / British Antarctic Survey 2002, 1/72, 72008
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG
$44
From quality ex-Matchbox molds. Includes a paint guide and a large and colorful decal sheet for any of the five aircraft listed. Nicely detailed kit with cockpit detail, optional baggage and non-baggage noses, regular landing gear, skis or floats. Never started and inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions.
Revell Avro Dam Buster Lancaster With Secret Bomb, 1/72, H202-200
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good
$42
1963 hardbox issue. This model features specially modified Lancaster fuselage with Dam Buster bomb and release mechanism, retractable anding gear, rotating propellers and wheels, working control surfaces and more. Never started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions. The Dam Busters squadron was famous for their daring raids on three German dams on May 16, 1943. Carrying the special Barnes Wallis-designed bombs, the Lancasters flew very low over the water in the face of heavy flak to drop the rotating bombs perfectly. Many did not return. The bombs did perform as promised, first skipping over the water, hitting the dam, then rolling down 30 feet before exploding with tremendous force. In an airburst, these bombs would not have damaged the dams, but since water is incompressible, the dams were breached.
Revell Brewster F2A Buffalo, 1/72, H636-60
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
$29
1964 issue features Brian Knight's classic box art of the Buffalo departing from a Lexington-Class carrier in the 'as-launched' configuration. The kit has never been started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions. NOTE: a few parts are a different color plastic. They are from an earlier issue of the same kit.
Lindberg Korean War Supersonic Jet Fighter F-86 - (Sabre Jet), 1/48, 557-98
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Sealed Exc++
$65
Still factory sealed. The glue has come off the folded cello on the right side but the seal is 100% complete. Unusual late 1950s hardbox issue that never even mentions the F-86 on the box art. Features amazing early dramatic Ray Gaedke box artwork. 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 Lockheed U-2 - B/C/D Variants Gary Powers - (ex Airfix), 1/72, 1-4311
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good
$42
From Airfix molds and dated 1984. Builds Power's famous U-2B or has parts and markings for C or D variants. There is no assembly but NOTE: the interior parts are hand-painted with one thin coat of interior yellow color. There is no other painting. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions.
Lindberg Lockheed F-94C Starfire, 1/51, 459-50
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG++
$48
Rare 1965 issue with great framable box artwork. The box has wonderful color and gloss and four solid corners. This is a rare issue that seldom surfaces. Inside is the original F-94 normally cited as 1/48 scale, but Lindberg has listed it as "15/64 to the foot scale" which is about 1/51. Features two pilots with seats, clear canopy, raised panel detail, full landing gear (can easily be built with gear in the retracted position also), 'rocket' nose, display stand and colorful decals. Molded in silver and clear. The kit has never been started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes 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.
Eduard Polikarpov I-16 Type 10, 1/48, 8148
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Good
$29
Features all fine recessed panel lines, many photoetched metal details (some factory painted), mask set, very good cockpit detail and much more. There is a full color paint guide and decals for 4 different aircraft. Never started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions.
Fujimi Diorama Accessories Tents Oil Drums Bridge Sandbag, 1/76, 4
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc+
$24
Rare and excellent model for small-scale armor dioramas and also suitable for 1/72 airfield dioramas as well. Includes two tents, numerous and varied brick assemblies, two wooden bridge walkways, 14 sand bags (of two sizes), 7 oil drums and 6 jerry cans. Never started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes instructions.
Revell Cutty Sark Clipper Ship - 3 Feet Long, 1/96, H364-995
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: Fair
$125
Rare first issue of this kit dated 1960. Large and highly detailed, measuring 36 inches long when built. This kit is the standard that other large-scale plastic sailing ships models are measured by. Since this is the first issue, the model has the factory painted copper hull below the waterline. The model features highly detailed deck, deck houses, cargo holds and removable covers, masts, yards and booms, bilge pump, windlass, 20 crew figure, lifeboats with oars, life preservers, anchors and anchor chains. With draftline and transom decals, figurehead, finely detailed hull, preformed ratlines and molded deadeyes, pin rails and blocks, full standing rigging instructions and diagrams and thread & chain for rigging. Molded in three colors - black, ivory/white and dark swirl wood tan. Inside, there has never been any assembly but NOTE: the bulwarks and outer raised white hull trim have been airbrushed white on both hull halves. While the work is neat (very good+ to excellent), there is white overspray on the factory copper paint. There is no other painting. The parts have been inventoried 100% complete and includes decals, color flag sheet, standing and running rigging line, chain and all assembly and rigging instructions. NOTE: the part numbers are off from the instruction book; I believe that the parts are from a later issue. I have also included a set of copied instructions that lines up perfectly with all of the part numbers on the trees.