The Best Boxart

[Weaver]

You know the thing I like about that painting is that both the Tomcat crew are actually looking at the MiG instead of staring straight ahead...

[Pablo1965]

Another nostalgic box, and one of my favourites:

[RussC]

Another nostalgic box, and one of my favourites:

  Built this one, twice...the second was bashed into a Ju-388 nightfighter. Note the partial tail swastika, before they became politically incorrect and were first accompanied by a disclaimer "the tail emblem of the swastika was an authentic marking of the wartime luftwaffe and is included only as a historical accuracy and not as a political statement by Lesney products LLC", and were then later obscured on the art and some makers even dropping them from the decals sheet! Side note, I built lots of Matchboxes here in the states because they were very plentiful and cheap. They had canyon sized embossed panel lines and simplified wheels, but the transparencies were great and the decals never silvered and they had some nice subjects, my first Vulcan and Victor among them. The only other low-light was the plastic colors of some, requiring sunglasses during the build stage...but fortunately the kit boxes had that nice cellophane window in the back so in the store you could in fact reject the flourescent greens, hot pinks and retina-burn blues and go for black, mud browns and sometimes settling for the brick red.

  Over in 1/144 scale, the 188 is a non-kit and you can either convert an 88 or buy a diecast toy made by IXO models. 

[Dork the kit slayer]

" , my first Vulcan and Victor among them. "


Truly nostalgic,the older Matchbox art.  :thumbsup:I remember well the Victor kit,totally over engineered ( number of parts) and a bit thick and clunky,but what the hell it was a 1:72nd Victor and welcomed with open arms.

I dont remember them doing a "Vulcan" but at my age the old mists of time get a bit more like thick fog. Id love a copy of the box art if you have one. (no begging emotion available)






 

[RussC]

" , my first Vulcan and Victor among them. "


Truly nostalgic,the older Matchbox art.  :thumbsup:I remember well the Victor kit,totally over engineered ( number of parts) and a bit thick and clunky,but what the hell it was a 1:72nd Victor and welcomed with open arms.

I dont remember them doing a "Vulcan" but at my age the old mists of time get a bit more like thick fog. Id love a copy of the box art if you have one. (no begging emotion available)

 Wish I could but the boxes, planes and the house they were built in are all memories only.

found these on google though...
 


It may be my fuzzy remembrance too, maybe I had built a Lindberg Vulcan kit (smaller scale) because I also remember building a smaller Lindberg Victor as well. Lindberg box art was gloriously simplistic and underdone with maybe the exception of the Me 410...

[Weaver]

Matchbox never did a Vulcan. If your's had the kinky leading edges, it was an Airfix one, and if had straight ones and enormously overscale undercarriage, it was the Lindberg one.

[NARSES2]

Bloody eck Dork I never realised Frog did half of those, especially the B.45 ! Thought it was just Mach 2

[PR19_Kit]

That was back in Frog's 'fit the box' days Chris. It was a relatively tiny thing, but well endowed with rivets as I recall!

It may have been a re-pop from someone else too, but if so I can't recall who.

[Geoff]

Come you golden oldies fess up...who had these for Christmas 19 5..........................ish

Amost all of them! 

And I still have two of one of your choices, unbuilt too............ 

I had the B-52 as a small lad.

[RussC]

Matchbox never did a Vulcan. If your's had the kinky leading edges, it was an Airfix one, and if had straight ones and enormously overscale undercarriage, it was the Lindberg one.

  Could have been either one, as we also had plenty from Airfix to choose from then as well as Matchbox. It was the Japanese kits that were not visible at all until about 1972.

[Pablo1965]

Another nostalgic box, and one of my favourites:

  Built this one, twice...the second was bashed into a Ju-388 nightfighter. Note the partial tail swastika, before they became politically incorrect and were first accompanied by a disclaimer "the tail emblem of the swastika was an authentic marking of the wartime luftwaffe and is included only as a historical accuracy and not as a political statement by Lesney products LLC", and were then later obscured on the art and some makers even dropping them from the decals sheet! Side note, I built lots of Matchboxes here in the states because they were very plentiful and cheap. They had canyon sized embossed panel lines and simplified wheels, but the transparencies were great and the decals never silvered and they had some nice subjects, my first Vulcan and Victor among them. The only other low-light was the plastic colors of some, requiring sunglasses during the build stage...but fortunately the kit boxes had that nice cellophane window in the back so in the store you could in fact reject the flourescent greens, hot pinks and retina-burn blues and go for black, mud browns and sometimes settling for the brick red.

Over in 1/144 scale, the 188 is a non-kit and you can either convert an 88 or buy a diecast toy made by IXO models. 

I have this models finished actually. It´s not a whatif but...

[Dork the kit slayer]

That was back in Frog's 'fit the box' days Chris. It was a relatively tiny thing, but well endowed with rivets as I recall!

It may have been a re-pop from someone else too, but if so I can't recall who.

Comet ?

[PR19_Kit]

That was back in Frog's 'fit the box' days Chris. It was a relatively tiny thing, but well endowed with rivets as I recall!

It may have been a re-pop from someone else too, but if so I can't recall who.

Comet ?

Ah yes, could well be right there. Frog did re-release a few of the older Comet kits, and that B-45 didn't look much like the Frog moulds of the time.

[ChrisF]

Im loving the new official boxart of the Airfix Lightning, in fact if they release it as a print i think i might just buy it... Shame its not 111sd though

http://www.airfix.com/airfix-products/new-models-for-2011/aircraft/a09178-english-electric-lightning-f2a6-a09178/?searchguid=2011121122272&resultspage=&sortorder=

[PR19_Kit]

And an equal shame they don't do it in 1/72.