Your favourite Box art

[FASTBACK340]

I always liked AMT's less is more approach.

-MJS

Can I add one?I agree, all the IMC models had great box art too. It didn't matter if it was the Lear jet the VW or the Lola. All of them were beautifully rendered.Great thread!

[Junkman]

10 out of 10 for political incorrectness:

 

Edited November 21, 2017 by Junkman

[Draggon]

The story on this as I heard it was something about Bob Paethe and Jim Keeler putting their names on the door, which was a no-no.

[Draggon]

Always loved this one. That guy looks like he's having too much fun!

[Austin T]

There was one that I want to say was like a Jo-han Super bird or road runner that was doing a burnout and had cool retro rainbow smoke coming from the tires.

[Casey]

I think there is a story behind this box art, somebody will probably post it.

http://theboxartden.com/Artists/Bob%20Paeth%20-%20Revell%2055%20Chevy/paeth.htm

IIRC, Mark Jones aka Scale-Master is related to one of the crew members mentioned on the door.

AMT and Revell had some very appealing box art in the late '60s, and this is another of my faves, the AMT SandKat:

[RodneyBad]

There was one that I want to say was like a Jo-han Super bird or road runner that was doing a burnout and had cool retro rainbow smoke coming from the tires.

One of these?

[trogdor]

As a kid I bought almost all AMT kits exclusively. The box art had everything to do with my choices. The most impressionable were the 66 annuals.

[Chuck Most]

I always thought the old JoHan boxes had a pretty good thing going with the box art.

Then again, same could be said for MPC in most cases.

[mademan]

Ive always really liked the trumpeter Nova box tops.

[Junkman]

I like those 1/32 Aurora boxes.

There were loads more, but they are so rare, they border obscurity.

Edited June 18, 2012 by Junkman

[Austin T]

One of these?

Yes those are the ones!The one I saw was the GTX.I kinda wish someone blew these up and made posters of them.I know that someone makes Tom Daniel's tin signs,Saw it in this expensive hot rod stuff catalog.

[gtx6970]

Right at the top of my all time favorites list

[Jon Cole]

I have heard this described as one of the best

[Rob Hall]

Some of my favorite oldies are the AMT '68 annuals and the few '71 MPC kits that had pics of actual cars on the top (Demon, Trans Am, GTX come to mind).

[Jon Cole]

One of my personal favorite box art would be this 330 P4 by Fujimi

[kruleworld]

My favourite box. it's the only box i display along with the model

[styromaniac]

Walter - I agree.

What's cooler than those jet interceptor pilots admiring the graceful lines of that XKE ?

( reminds me of that Hot Rod magazine cover from the same era of LeRoi "Tex" Smith's XR6 parked next to the F-104 Starfighter )

The companion box of the yellow Jag convertible w/ the racing boats in the background was also very cool.

I have managed to re-acquire a lot of these works of art from the 60's in the past few years...often the artwork on the box cover exceeded the execution of the contents inside.

Like all those Aurora 1/32nd kits...The Wolf Wagon, The Ramrod, etc.

My favorites have always been the Monogram hot rod kits of the early 60's..The Green Hornet, the Black Widow, the Yellow Jacket, the Blue Beetle, the Red Chariot.

Those and the early Revell "Speed & Show" kits...the Stone- Woods- Cooke Willys, the Mickey Thompson "Attempt 1" & "Challenger", the Tri-Five Chevies.

Edited June 19, 2012 by styromaniac

[simonr]

Check out the old Heller Porsches 917K, 908 and Mercedes Gulwing 300SL ones...

[935k3]

Here are two of my favorites;

[mademan]

hands down, my favorite art!

[Junkman]

Check out the old Heller Porsches 917K, 908 and Mercedes Gulwing 300SL ones...

Heller box art always was outstanding, and not only on their car kits.

Earlier this year, Gallerie 64bis in Paris held an exhibition of original art through the whole history of the Heller kit company, from 1957 through to the present.

The exhibition brought together some 60 original works by artists such as Michel Bez, Francis Bergèse, and Daniel Bechennec.

Noted French kit collector and historian Jean-Christophe Carbonel wrote a book about the history of Heller:

Here is some box art:

Edited June 20, 2012 by Junkman

[57peppershaker]

This is one of my favorites..

Your a man of good taste Roger lol.

Though this 1 had a lasting effect . . . . .

[57peppershaker]

I've just found this (see other thread). This looks fantastic

[slusher]

l liked the revell box art of both bullitt cars with steve mcqueen in the back ground....Slusher