Mysterious old plastic airliner models

First impression is they could be old Auroroa models, but teh DC-8s and 707s weren't in 1/232 scale...they were much larger. Could they be old Hawk models from the 60s? I remember my very first airliner model was a TWA Convair 880 that my cousin built for me, while I watched. I think I might have been about 8 yhears old...in the 60s. I'm pretty sure it was a Hawk model; it was rather small...could have been 1/232 scale...whatever it was, I was ruined and hooked for life. Can you post pictures at some point?

The DC-8s are almost certainly the Lindberg kit from the late 1950's. The decals are probably worth more than the kits, although it's the only DC-8 kit in the scale, other than a later Pegaso rebox.

Nice call on the scale, how did you get that?

The Lindberg kit intact in the box is rare. The box had a little cellophane window in the lid that showed some of the parts inside.

I could only find one 707 in that scale (listed as 1/236 on Scalemates)- released by Sanwa in the early sixties and rare. It did come with PAA decals. Very rare, but needs to be complete.

Thanks for the reply guys---

Good to know that these may have been early kits from the 60s. I wasn't sure what they were or if they were display models. It seems that I saw stuff like this in 1960 on counters where you checked in for a flight at the airline desk. Seems that I saw something like this at Love Field at that time.

The decals are dead on for Delta logo for 1959-1963. The little planes are in very poor condition and probably not worth anything as collector items. Decals are falling off too.

i got the scale by measuring the wingspan of 7 3/8 in and finding the wing of the real DC-8 of 140 ft. A little math came up with that scale.

Thanks again for the help!

This is a good subject. My father had 49 years seniority at United when he retired. 

I thought your determination of scale would be as you stated.

Those travel agent models, manufacturer representaive giveaways on so on are usually either metal in the smaller scales or vacu form in the larger scales, deserve a study some day.

Just as an example, we have a model of the P-61 that needs to be claned up and finished. An Italian family starving, made castings of the recognition models and poured German propeller aluminum in the molds.

G,

I agree that the display model subject needs to be addressd. Also good to know that the small plastic jet liners are just kits.

Did you get to fly on any of the other prop liners as a kid? One experience I would not trade was a trip on a DC-6 from Minneapolis to Seattle where we flew through numerous thunderstorms. Today you couldn't pay anyone to do this and most people have no idea what that was like. Very common during the prop liner era.