The Best Boxart

[RussC]

I think this one, of the upcoming new Airfix Gnat is an absolute stunner:

  Someone at the illustrators has figured how to use Google Earth for a backdrop or how to get some aerial shots from a stock photo company.

[raafif]

you mean it's possible to paint a Gnat in something other than RedArrows red ?

Nice !

[kitnut617]

you mean it's possible to paint a Gnat in something other than RedArrows red ?

Nice !

There's an all over yellow scheme too ----

[Army of One]

I love the Dragon box art....Prillers FW190 over the D-Day beach was a face.....almost anything from Koike was great.....but I have to admit loving the early Airfix n matchbox stuff as I grew up on that.....was it a matchbox Do17 being shot up with an undercarriage leg dangling down..... Seem to remember a box with that on....late 70's I think.....

[frank2056]

One boxart that got me to buy (and build) the kit is this one:



And it's also a whif, since this tank was never put into action.

[pyro-manic]

Shigero Koike is an obvious one, and the old Airfix paintings take some beating. I do like a lot of Bandai's boxart for their mecha kits, and one of my absolute favourites is the series of 1:100 Five Star Stories kits done by Wave in the 90s. Here's an example:

[Weaver]

[GTX]

One I have really like of late has been this one:



Simple I admit and certainly not so spectacular as some, it still certainly has made it hard to avoid buying the kit!

Regards,

Greg

[MilitaryAircraft101]

Gotta say, the mid 90s to mid 00s Airfix art is pretty meagre, but most of the newer box art is wonderful, I do like the big Mossie and the SB2C Helldiver art...

[NARSES2]

Yup, Airfix appear to have gone back to the style of box art from the heydey of the marque. The Spirit of Roy Cross  Now that would be a good name for a wif presentation Spitfire 

[MilitaryAircraft101]

Unfortunately, they've CGI'd G for George Same art, just in CGI, I got one of the last boxings before it changed But I do like the approach they're now taking towards box art.

[lancer]

I think it's great Airfix have started using Roy Cross' artwork again, but to convert it to CGI os just bad, it just doesn't look right. G-George boxart is a prime example of that I think.

[MilitaryAircraft101]

Yeah, maybe if they're going to have the CGI renditions of Cross's art, at least have the original somewhere on the box... (It is pretty big)

[Dork the kit slayer]

At my age its got to be stuff from the golden age.

[PR19_Kit]

Cor, you've got some gems there Dork!