Bear with me, gentlemen, I just signed up here and this is my first post, guessing it's in the right place. I have the opportunity to purchase the LS 1:1 plastic kit of the Walther P-38. I still don't know the status of the kit (i.e., factory sealed, opened/not started, opened/started, etc.), but would appreciate you're input regarding the quality I can expect and the asking price of $50USD. Any info would help.

LS set the mark back in the day with their weapons kits. I have the P38 kit, and it was one of their better ones. At that price, I would definitely snap it up if it was unbuilt.
The only problem with their kits was the type of "plastic" involved. You have to use ABS glue (same stuff plumbers use) and lots of clamps to align pieces.
Once they are built, and suitably painted and weathered, they are very difficult to tell from the real ones.
HTH in your decision.

Art

Hi Craig,
As Art said, these are excellent kits but do require ABS glue because they are
not styrene but rather an ABS type plastic....much stronger.
BUT
as a note, these gun kits are not 1:1... they are 10-15% smaller and can only
be noticed when compared to the real ones.
I have built the Luger and the Colt and did notice a size difference.
The clips which are plastic could not be loaded with a real round
because of this size difference.
On the other hand, MARUI of JAPAN did and I believe still makes replicas
and they are 1:1.
They actually supply real metal clips that will fit the real pistol but have a small
modification made to them.
Hope this info helps.
Cheers,
Joe

Plastruct Plastic Weld works well on this plastic. Good find-- I built their P-08 Artillery Luger a few years back and enjoyed building it very much