[gerax44]

Hi to all!
Excuse my English....

Does anyone remember this picture?



It's the original Airfix B-17G 1-72 box-painting, i built the model ~ 1973!,
now i`m 50 and, wonder of technology, i can reproduce it an a PC:




Hope you'll enjoy it,
Gerax44

[psychobob]

That is really great! Thanks for sharing this.

[P/O W. 'Moggy' Cattermole]

haha, brilliant! Can't uite see the detail on the box, is that an FW190 attacking the bombers? x.x feel daft for asking, but hey..

[si1va]

I built the Bit O' Lace model when I was younger. It didn't quite look the same as the one on the box though.

[Guest]

Yeah Moggy looks alot like a 190, engine looks radial, and that distinct splash of yellow on the bottom of the engine cowl+ the muzzle flash suits a 190 gun setup.

[Trooper117]

I remember getting that model for christmas when I was a lad!

[gerax44]

Hi Si1va!
Excuse my english...

Oh, i remember this pic very well , because i cutted it from the box and pinned it with so many other on the walls, i also had built a model-diorama including a 190A8 by Airfix (i think, it may be A6,7,8,9, but no Dora) attacking her, hanging over my desk.

I found the picture on the Amazon-Site where you can buy the book: "The Vintage Years of Airfix Box Art": http://www.amazon.de/Vintage-Years-Airf ... 1847970761.
Citation: ".....in the 1960s, a talented graphic artist called Roy Cross was commissioned to paint some of the box art for Airfix, and for a ten-year-period he provided many of the glorious paintings seen on the boxes, setting new standards for realism and accuracy.....".

Whenever i see wonderful screenshots, paintings and so on in this forum they also remember me
of this famous boxarts. I know that my screenshot will not have the same dramatic as the boxart
by Cross, I made it two years ago with a another system...., it's the idea i was playing around...:wink:.

Greeings from Vienna,
Gerax44

[No.5 Studly]

Yes i remember that Kit..we are showing our Age now

[Guest]

LOL-this is brilliant

[Dunois]

Oh yes

This was one of the many I did, and made my parents little bit upset because the bedroom shelves were full of planes, at the point there was no room left enough for school stuff....