How about this box art !

[Thorvic]

http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/image/10215618p/10/1
http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10215618



What a great way to reduce the Naval tension - NOT  

[Weaver]

Genius...

Let's hope we can laugh at this as "whiff-on-the-box" artwork ten years from now.....

[sandiego89]

But maybe they are just responding to a Godzilla attack?   That's the reason for all the flames and stuff.

[Captain Canada]

Wow ! Neat stuff. Three diferent types of attack helos, and the AAVs have one heck of a drop from that height ! Also like the Sea Eagle in the background. But, what is Operation Senkaku ? And since we're all over the age of 15, I guess ourmodelling skills are no longer heplful !

[jcf]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senkaku_Islands_dispute

[rickshaw]

I don't think it matters what the Japanese put on a kit box lid, the Chinese will take offence if they want to.

It's a spectacular picture but the island is a lot bigger than what I understand the Senkaku ones are.

Nice PLAA J-10 fighter though...  Pity it's carrier got sunk.  No where to go now.

[lancer]

A helicopter carrier sink a Kunznetsov carrier?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??? With the defences those beauties carry???

[Martin H]

Bare in mind Lance that the 2nd ship never got the full Soviet weapons fit. But I dont doubt that her current owners have more than a few nasty surprises installed on board for the unwary/unwise

[deathjester]

Wow ! Neat stuff. Three diferent types of attack helos, and the AAVs have one heck of a drop from that height ! Also like the Sea Eagle in the background. But, what is Operation Senkaku ? And since we're all over the age of 15, I guess ourmodelling skills are no longer heplful !

No, no - Top Secret rocket assisted take off Amtrac ( ASROC-V/7A1 ?)

[Mr.Creak]

A helicopter carrier sink a Kunznetsov carrier?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??? With the defences those beauties carry???

The carrier was sunk by the four invisible submarines. (Included in the box).

[Pellson]

It's a spectacular picture but the island is a lot bigger than what I understand the Senkaku ones are.

Oooooo...I dunno 'bout that...



Compare the profile of the island in the pic above and on the box art..

[Spey_Phantom]

Trumpeter also did something like that last year, when they released the 1/35 M1129 stryker.
seeing US Forces fight of Decepticons AND the technodrome 

[Old Wombat]

A helicopter carrier sink a Kunznetsov carrier?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??? With the defences those beauties carry???

This might be a touch pedantic but I'm pretty sure a helicopter carrier would be part of a task force, not a solo operator. So, I'd figure it was probably a frigate, destroyer or cruiser that put a missile or 2 into the Kuznetzov-class carrier. Perhaps the one from which the Hyuga is being viewed in the box art!?

Plus, it looks like the J-10 has just taken a hit, probably from the F-15 flying just above & behind it.... So, maybe a flight/squadron of strike-fighters lobbed a few missiles at the Kuznetzov-class carrier, too.



Guy

[NARSES2]

Never mind who sank who....would they be that close ?

[rickshaw]

Never mind who sank who....would they be that close ?

Obviously not.   However, like Hollywood, you have to get multiple things into the frame for dramatic effect when you're painting or filming events.

Pellson, I've only seen pictures published showing the islands from other angles but now you've posted that one, I agree the one in the boxtop art is remarkably similar.