The Best Boxart

[rickshaw]

You should not forget the two other traditions of the Royal Navy which saw it through so many wars successfully... 

[NARSES2]

You should not forget the two other traditions of the Royal Navy which saw it through so many wars successfully... 

Well one was rum  : the other ?

[NARSES2]

I've never seen that Airfix Corsair box art before Dork, terific stuff. I do lke those classic Revell boxes with the little "brass" name tag though

Same here, what a scene on the Airfix art!, own ship been Kamikaze-ed on the back end but flying ops from the front...hard core aviators, knowing there is probably no returning to that ship for a long time, if at all.

Now if it was a RN carrier he'd be able to land after the raid just in time for tea  What with the armoured decks 

Quite so! Matelots with sweeping brushes and a load of quick-set  concrete  and the British Pacific Fleet will be Formidable once more.

Yup it was the USN liason officer aboard who made the famous "after a Kamikaze on a US carrier it's 6 months in Pearl on a RN carrier it's "sweepers man your brooms""

Dad was an AA gunner on Illustrious and described Kamakazes as the most frightening thing he ever saw in his life and I've seen my Mum angry 

[Dork the kit slayer]

" Now hear this ,now hear this. Liberty guys glamorise,must aft abaft the after smokestack Sweepers sweepers man your brooms.Bad guys to the sheriffs office"

U.S. Destroyer tanoy Subic Bay 1972ish

[RussC]

" This is the Captain...from now there will be NO consumption of Balloots (Philipino pickled kimche eggs) and Beer before boarding MY BOAT !!" followed by
"Article 15 for all hands"
 
Heard aboard a American SSN racing back to the surface for a emergency air ventilation, just hours after departing the same Subic Bay, circa 1953.
 
 

[Rheged]

I've never seen that Airfix Corsair box art before Dork, terific stuff. I do lke those classic Revell boxes with the little "brass" name tag though

Same here, what a scene on the Airfix art!, own ship been Kamikaze-ed on the back end but flying ops from the front...hard core aviators, knowing there is probably no returning to that ship for a long time, if at all.

Now if it was a RN carrier he'd be able to land after the raid just in time for tea  What with the armoured decks 

Quite so! Matelots with sweeping brushes and a load of quick-set  concrete  and the British Pacific Fleet will be Formidable once more.

Yup it was the USN liason officer aboard who made the famous "after a Kamikaze on a US carrier it's 6 months in Pearl on a RN carrier it's "sweepers man your brooms""

Dad was an AA gunner on Illustrious and described Kamakazes as the most frightening thing he ever saw in his life and I've seen my Mum angry 

My English master at Grammar  school  45 years ago    was one of the first to land back on Formidable after the Kamikaze  attack, and  did once admit to a group  of incredulous pupils  that "it's  not common to land on, and leave wheeltracks in the flight deck "   He also described his time in the Pacific Fleet as " better viewed in hindsight" 

[rickshaw]

You should not forget the two other traditions of the Royal Navy which saw it through so many wars successfully...  

Well one was rum   : the other ?

Nay it t'were not Rum, bucko but rather Sodomy and t' Lash, according to W.S. Churchill...

[NARSES2]

My English master at Grammar  school  45 years ago    was one of the first to land back on Formidable after the Kamikaze  attack, and  did once admit to a group  of incredulous pupils  that "it's  not common to land on, and leave wheeltracks in the flight deck "   He also described his time in the Pacific Fleet as " better viewed in hindsight" 

Think dad would have agreed with that

[Geoff]

You should not forget the two other traditions of the Royal Navy which saw it through so many wars successfully... 

Well one was rum  : the other ?

Nay it t'were not Rum, bucko but rather Sodomy and t' Lash, according to W.S. Churchill...

Of course there is the old one that - if it's not nailed down it's yours, and if you can prise it loose it's not nailed down.

[rickshaw]

You should not forget the two other traditions of the Royal Navy which saw it through so many wars successfully... 

Well one was rum  : the other ?

Nay it t'were not Rum, bucko but rather Sodomy and t' Lash, according to W.S. Churchill...

Of course there is the old one that - if it's not nailed down it's yours, and if you can prise it loose it's not nailed down.

I once read that the British Commander of the brief and fleeting British occupation of Indochina at the end of WWII described the even briefer Chinese KMT occupation of Indochina that preceded it, "they came, they saw, they took what wasn't nailed down and they brought claw hammers for what was..." 

[philp]

Okay,
In what is sure to be a failed attempt to put this thread back on track.

[Taiidantomcat]

[Dork the kit slayer]

Always liked this boxing of Revells WV-2. I remember buying this kit in France during a school trip ( late 1950s ?)

[Dork the kit slayer]

How about a bit off box art (home grown) nostalgia.












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

[PR19_Kit]

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............