The worst box art

[Captain Canada]

The other side series lol

[The Rat]

They called it "Old Stumpy".

I like the fact it's from "The Other Side Series" 

Other side of what ? Reality ? 

[chrisonord]

Looks a bit... truncated?

I have  built this, it is very erm, cylindrical  so to speak

[PR19_Kit]

Didn't Weaver use one of those to build an LSR car a while back?

[The Rat]

Not sure if this has been posted already (I'm not wading through 28 pages!), but this is not good. In fact it's bad. But the price was okay, and I took pity on it.

[NARSES2]

In 20 years time or so that will be seen as a classic, especially drawing comment for the use of "pastel shades" by the artist 

Seriously it does remind me of a different world a long, long time ago, when kits coming from Eastern Europe were still a rarity. Indeed we probably wouldn't use the term "Eastern Europe" anymore. I stopped using it when a Czech Lady at a Prague restaurant had a bit of a dig at me about it 

[Dizzyfugu]

Personally, I do not find it THAT bad. The Iskra is depicted quite well, a bit slender, maybe, but the overall style is a typical "modernist-communism" example:



Might be ugly, but it actually has IMHO artistic value.

[NARSES2]

Might be ugly, but it actually has IMHO artistic value.

Dizzy as it happens I agree with you. It does have a certain "look" about it 

[Old Wombat]

Amusingly, my wife is collecting some kits for me on Monday (she put me onto the seller but the penalty is that I have to pick her & a friend up after work) & one is a (I think) Modelsvit 1/72 TS-11 "Iskra"

Another in the bunch is a Czech Yak-23(?? ??) from an unknown source (photo only showed the box art of the aircraft but no details).

I can't remember if I ordered the Bereznyak-Isayev BI-1 or not ... if I didn't, I certainly should have!

[zenrat]

I like it.  It is in a similar vein to this from my own stash.
Gloster 01 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

[Weaver]

Didn't Weaver use one of those to build an LSR car a while back?

Not guilty. I've used a couple of VEB Plasticart Su-7s to make 'BAC Thunderbolts' (single-engined Lightnings), one of which is still unfinished.

[ericr]

Might be ugly, but it actually has IMHO artistic value.

Dizzy as it happens I agree with you. It does have a certain "look" about it 

it is a bit simplistic, but this precisely gives it a "stylized" look

[TheChronicOne]

The three little racing gliders I made were all of this style. Here's one:

[The Rat]

I'll just leave this here, okay?

[The Rat]

And more awful Faller boxes here: https://www.oldmodelkits.com/index.php?manu=Faller