Boxtop Irregularities

[puddingwrestler]

AMT's Starwars kits often had blatantly airbrushed photos. Not the most recent, the ones inbetween painted art and the current ones. You can see where they've airbrushed in detail on the X Wing clearly.

[philp]

I think JHM has been playing with the new Photoshop he got for Christmas 

[NARSES2]

Wow...great thread, Baz ! It's got me wondering myself....might have to go dig thru the stash !

My favourite boxtop ever was the Hasegawa ? Fencer flying low past HMS Invincinble ( or the other carrier ) It's a beautiful painting, but my LHS guy ( modelshop Dave ) says it's an irregulare in itself, as there's no way a Russian aeroplane would get that close to a RN carreir without being shot down !

It's the Dragon kit I think Capt

[GTX]

Theres an Airfix Bucaneer from a long time ago, that shows a Bucaneer landing on a flattop, in the midst of an attack from Japanese WWII fighters. The same artwork has also been released without the Zeroes

You don't mean this one do you Trip7:

http://www.oldmodelkits.com/index.php?detail=9035&searchtext=Buccaneer

Cool - a Royal Navy version of "The Final Countdown".

Regards,

Greg

About time they made a sequel, isnt it?

Well John Birmingham's Axis of Time trilogy kind of was...

Regards,

Greg

[Ian the Kiwi Herder]

I'm fairly 'up' on Airfix box-art but I have NEVER seen that cover for the Bucc..... really cringeworthy but in an endearing way.

The one that particularly sticks in the mind is the Airfix 1:76 Panther, which is seen shooting-up a British ambulance in the desert...... Hello, Panthers in the desert..... , there was another 'howler' by Airfix on one of their 1:76 polythene figure boxes, but I canot recall which one. Hopefully somebody here will fill in the blanks.

Still on Airfix, but some of those glorious Roy Cross masterpieces found on the old 'DOGFIGHT DOUBLES' series were historically 'suspect' too........ The Mosquito & Me262 immediatley leaps to mind, as does the Cessna O-2 & MiG 21 (remember the MiG was an early F-13 version, not used by NVAF)...... The most accurate (and dramatic IMHO) of those was the Israeli Mirage bearing down on the Egyptian (?) MiG 15.....

Not sure whether this is in the sppirit of this 'ere thread, but I would luv to know how many youngsters gave-up their hard earned pennies/cents to buy a Lindberg Thunderceptor or Draken, based upon their 'striking' box-tops...... Yes Dork, I'm looking at you 

Like Toad says.... great thread, Barry.

Ian

[McGreig]

as does the Cessna O-2 & MiG 21 (remember the MiG was an early F-13 version, not used by NVAF)......

Sorry about this, but the MiG-21 (you can never have too many MiG-21 kits) is probably the only aircraft in the known Universe which can awaken my inner JMN  , so I find that I have this overwhelming compulsion to point out that, errr --- well --- ehhmm --- the NVAF did, in fact, use the F-13. The MiG v O-2 dogfight does seem implausible, but the Vietnamese received 20 of the F-13 version in 1965 in two number blocks, 4420 - 4429 and 4520 - 4529. Two of these still exist as museum exhibits.
Gordon

[Steel Penguin]

one from Kitech ( yes i know there cheap and nasty, but thats what i want for wargaming with, no tears if any get droped ) the Chally 1 box still has the comaders fingers visable on the hatch side ( just under the cover for the TC NVG box and in front of the hatch cover)

[ysi_maniac]

I think this is in the spirit of the thread:

There is an Airfix old tank model 1/76 (I do not remenber Sherman or Centurion). In the old version of boxtop there is a dead British soldier that was deleted in a new version.

[Bungle]

I'm fairly 'up' on Airfix box-art but I have NEVER seen that cover for the Bucc..... really cringeworthy but in an endearing way.

The box art was from Craftmaster releasing the Airfix Buccaneer under licence.....

Note the burning wreck top left.... certainly looks like a Zero. Looks a bit of an Air Controllers nightmare !

[Mossie]

In this day & age of defence cuts it may well have happened, the funding for the search radar was approved, but it wasn't turned on because the MoD cut back on the AA batteries that went in the remote control!

[kitnut617]

Still on Airfix, but some of those glorious Roy Cross masterpieces found on the old 'DOGFIGHT DOUBLES' series were historically 'suspect' too........ The Mosquito & Me262 immediatley leaps to mind, Ian

Just finished reading the Sharp/Bowyer book on the Mosquito not long ago and there's mention of Mosquito/Me262 operational encounters in the last chapters, admittedly it's in the chapters on Photo Recon', there's a first hand account from a pilot who managed to evade one such although they do speculate that a number of PR Mossies that didn't return in the last few months of the war were the work of Me262's