The 2014 Christmas shopping season is almost over. As some late-minute buyers are rushing around looking for gifts (or just good deals), let’s pause and look back to the ads for modeling items that were filling the December 1946 magazines.
What modeling gifts are you hoping to get for Christmas?

Credit: Ad, Inter Coastal Company, Inc. Air Trails Pictorial, November 1946, pg. 14.

Credit: Ad, The Hobby House, Air Trails Pictorial, December 1946, pg. 72.

Credit: Ad, E.T. Lombard Company. Model Airplane News, December 1946, pg. 72.

Christmas in December, what a concept! A perfect time to get the Merlin Super “B” engine.
Credit: Ad, Merlin Miniatures, Inc. Air Trails Pictorial, December 1946, pg. 114.

Credit: Ad, Scientific Model Airplane Co.,Air Trails Pictorial, December 1946, pg. 85.
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