The worst box art

[GMendes]

Collectors want those? Cripes! They're...crap!Alvis 3.1

Really? If they're pantographed from the Airfix job they shouldn't be all that bad. At least, the fuselage and wings should be pretty good, I suppose teeny bits like props and such would be less satisfactory. But never having seen one I can't say for sure.

I have one that a another modeler sent me in a purchase of a box with scrap/incomplete models and parts. It is started, with fuselage detached painted white, but it is indeed a reduced copy of the airfix kit, in all details. In fact, it is a "finer" model than the larger "father" :-)

I will take some photos and post them.

Best regards,

G_Mendes

[Go4fun]

Wasn't there a legal reason for the photos of the model as box art for a while? I'm sure I read that somewhere. Trades descriptions or something, i.e. the box had to show what was inside.

Then why do baby food bottles show Babies on the label!  
Seriously tho I have seen built models on car boxes where one tire is showing air under it. Not only is it sitting still (it IS a model!) but it looks impossible due to things called Physics and Gravity.

[Go4fun]

Found this box art on Ebay today

This looks like a UH-1 'Huey' that got stretched lenghtwise and extra doors added.

[Go4fun]

Another contender from Comet

Wings tilted in one plane, tail planes im a different angle?  A BENTly Bomber?

[raafif]

haven't you heard of asymetric sweep before ? -- one to be built "Out-of-the-Box" for Tophe

[Weaver]

Here's a howler from Kangam, posted by Finsrin on BTS (nice one )



1. Apparently, from the detail, this is the Missouri with the New Jersey's pennant number painted on (badly).

2. She's in 1980s-onwards fit, with Tomahawks, Harpoons, Phalanx guns and a Seahawk helo, but somehow she's escorting a WWII standard Essex class carrier with what look like F6F Hellcats on deck.....

3. Arn't those 16" gun barrels a little short too?

[scooter]

The Final Countdown Redux?

[Old Wombat]

They're obviously 16" naval mortars!



Guy

[rickshaw]

Howitzers more like! 

[Go4fun]

Wasn't there a legal reason for the photos of the model as box art for a while? I'm sure I read that somewhere. Trades descriptions or something, i.e. the box had to show what was inside.

Then why do baby food bottles show Babies on the label! 
Seriously tho I have seen built models on car boxes where on tire is showing air under it. Not only is it sitting still (it IS a model!) but it looks impossible due to things cause Physics and Gravity.

[Old Wombat]

They're obviously 16" naval mortars!

Howitzers more like! 

I was thinking along the lines of the big, breech-loaded mortars of WW1 but with longer barrels. ('Coz every naval gun has a longer barrel, right? )



Guy

[Weaver]

I'll take my chances Kit.....

Here's the positively svelte single-pilot version:




Then, because the single-pilot job obviously wasn't fat and ugly enough, they produced a side-by-side two-pilot trainer version:



Never was the phrase "that'll teach 'em" more aptly applied.....


Weaver, on behalf of:
The Blackburn Blackburn Depreciation Society
"Not coming soon to a model shop near you...."

Well it's still not coming soon to a model shop near you, but the model world never ceases to amaze me. I saw a model of a Blackburn Blackburn at Crewe and assumed it was a scratchbuild, but it looks like no, it may actually have been a kit:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Contrail-1-72-Blackburn-Blackburn-Vacuform-Kit-/171129684413?pt=UK_ToysGames_ModelKits_ModelKits_JN&hash=item27d81fc1bd



I'm (almost) inclined to buy that, not because I want to build it but just to remove it from public view in the name of common decency....

Wonder how many they sold?  

[rickshaw]

A true triumph of function over form!  Nearly as ugly as those French inter-war planes.   

[Captain Canada]

Missing the point on a few of them....the Lynx looks fine to me...the crew look pretty funny tho !

[PR19_Kit]

Missing the point on a few of them....the Lynx looks fine to me...the crew look pretty funny tho !

The MPC boxing of the Airfix Lynx had the box art photo stretched to match their standard size box, but they didn't do anything about the height! Result was a long thin Lynx.........