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Wednesday I went to donate some clothes at our Salvation Army and I was impressed with their upgrades to the place and layout. Much easier to find things. Saw they even had a toy section, and low and behold a 1/18 Marineflieger F-104 still in the box was sitting there. It was once opened and most likely displayed but whoever donated this did a decent job of putting it back in the box putting all the pieces in the right places. Box isn't mint, a slight torn hole on the underside but the plane was one of the most perfect mint XD planes I have ever seen. Not a scratch and the paint was applied perfectly. Nothing missing, nothing broken. Unbelievable.

Asking price - $25. You bet I snatched it up and gave it a good home.

It's now my favorite XD I own since this one was my "refugee"!!

thats an awesome find

Even i would have bought a Marineflieger 104 at that price.

If for no other reason than to cannibalize the missiles. Good buy, i must say.

Long before I was on this board and really into 1/18 XD, I came across a P-51 Mustang (can't remember which one) and the original ME-109 in their boxes with loose and/or missing parts. Goodwill had marked them both 20.00 each. They still had the TRU price sticker on them.
I passed on both of them at the time.

Black Lion VF-213 wrote: It's now my favorite XD I own since this one was my "refugee"!!

It's a nice paint of that model IMO, because the solid gray really shows off the finer details I think - better than the camo or silver.

That's a great find. I heard Goodwill isn't accepting toys any longer due to lead fears. Apparently the Salvation Army isn't so particular.

Great find! The German F-104 is certainly one of the cooler schemes for the 21c F-104

Perhaps our Salvation Army thinks this child protection act over lead in toys is a bunch of malarky

Amazing what you can find at the thrift stores. Like the saying goes, "one man's trash is another man's treasure".