Dann Tier Posted July 28, 2018 Posted July 28, 2018 …..I don't even know what to say about this BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH...…..
bbowser Posted July 28, 2018 Posted July 28, 2018 Peter Max? What is the car supposed to be, 64 Galaxie?
SteveG Posted July 28, 2018 Posted July 28, 2018 AMT 1961 Ford Galaxie issued in '69 as part of the Flower Power series. The others were a '60 Mercury, 60 Pontiac Bonneville, 60 T-Bird Convertible, 62 Buick Electra and 65 Ford Mustang HT. All had the Flower Power/ Psychedelic box art work as AMT tried to cash in on the Hippie Movement. The tooling for the 61 Ford, 62 Buick and 65 Mustang are still around. The rest are long gone. -Steve
Dentz Posted July 28, 2018 Posted July 28, 2018 Flower Power series and no beetle or van of any kind? I smell a corpo-rat lol. Hippies didn't drive or build models of cars for 'the man' like a T-bird 'vert. Hard to build a kit when yer in a muddy field listening to 45 min meandering guitar solos, whacked outta yer mind on hallucinogens.. Now that glue on the other hand....
Mike999 Posted July 28, 2018 Posted July 28, 2018 This thread forced me to go looking at pix of the traffic jams around Woodstock in August 1969. Checking for "Flower Power" cars! I liked this pic: lots of VW Bugs, a couple of VW buses in the background. On the right, looks like somebody kidnapped the family 4-door sedan. What really caught my eye was the guy in the C2 Vette convertible.
cobraman Posted July 28, 2018 Posted July 28, 2018 I need to dig out my Naru jacket and my platform shoes.
Dentz Posted July 28, 2018 Posted July 28, 2018 Mike999, that's a white collar square in that vette!.
SfanGoch Posted July 29, 2018 Posted July 29, 2018 2 hours ago, cobraman said: I need to dig out my Naru jacket and my platform shoes. Major fashion faux pas, maaaaaaan. You don't wear Nehru jackets and platform shoes together. You're mixing eras. Get that polyester leisure suit out. Blow dried hair and molester mustache optional.
1972coronet Posted July 29, 2018 Posted July 29, 2018 9 hours ago, Dann Tier said: …..I don't even know what to say about this BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH...….. As a visual artist , I can tell you what's wrong with this : not enough contrast ( e.g. , an almost total absence of black , white , and grey ) ! I love how practically every era is typified and made to be so generic , and the sixties are no exception . This kit's ( atrocious ) box art is ostensibly a period piece ( c.1969 ) , in an attempt to capitalise on the psychedelic art of the time ( Peter Max , et al. ) . Heck , even by '69 , psychedelic showbills ( posters for bands and venues ) were on their way out ! "Raw Power has a son named Rock & Roll ... "
Oldcarfan27 Posted July 29, 2018 Posted July 29, 2018 If you think that one's bad, this is my opinion of THEE worst box art - bar none! Box art is supposed to sell the kit, not chase buyers away - laughing! I can't imagine who approved this abomination, it certainly won't attract first time buyers. Luckily the contents are a lot better than the cover.
Mike999 Posted July 29, 2018 Posted July 29, 2018 I suspect the Revell '76 Torino box was an homage - or something - to the box art for the Aurora Jaguar XKE from 1963. "Hanging out with jet fighters." Revell-o-gram reissued the Jag with that original artwork back in the 1990s, along with the Aston-Martin DB-4, Maserati 3500 GT and the Ford LeMans GT. As a trained artist on a modeling forum pointed out, that Aurora art has its own problems with proportion etc. He noted that the crewman climbing the ladder would be about 10 feet tall.
MrObsessive Posted July 29, 2018 Posted July 29, 2018 Human proportions notwithstanding, that old Aurora box art is 100% better than Revell's hands down! Strictly looking at the Jag, they got the proportions in my view pretty much spot on for a drawing. Compared to this................ Not so much. If the artist had perhaps drew the car as a fuller 3/4 view, then it may have come out a bit better. I don't want to knock whoever did that box art-----I haven't drawn a car in quite some time, I just think more time could have been spent to make the subject matter that much more appealing. Now what's IN the box? Hmmm.........I just wish it were something else like a '77 T-Bird, '73 Ranchero............
MrObsessive Posted July 29, 2018 Posted July 29, 2018 Now you know you're getting old when you can name each and every one of those cars in that pic........right down to the year and model. Hard to believe that pic is nearly FIFTY YEARS OLD! I was a bit too young for Woodstock (Eight at the time) but I knew of friends of my younger Aunts and Uncles that did go and I heard the stories!
ChrisBcritter Posted July 29, 2018 Posted July 29, 2018 11 hours ago, 1972coronet said: As a visual artist , I can tell you what's wrong with this : not enough contrast ( e.g. , an almost total absence of black , white , and grey ) ! Not gray - silver! Say what you like about the Flower Power series, the bottom line was it meant one last precious run of the '60 Merc, Pontiac and T-bird went through the molds for us to enjoy in the future (see also: '63 T-bird and '66 Skylark in the "Baja" series, and the '65 Olds 88 in the "Hijacker" series).
espo Posted July 29, 2018 Posted July 29, 2018 14 hours ago, SfanGoch said: Major fashion faux pas, maaaaaaan. You don't wear Nehru jackets and platform shoes together. You're mixing eras. Get that polyester leisure suit out. Blow dried hair and molester mustache optional. This guy forgot his wide White Belt.
SfanGoch Posted July 29, 2018 Posted July 29, 2018 Cops always remove belts, ties and shoelaces when you're taken to central booking.
Joe Handley Posted July 29, 2018 Posted July 29, 2018 10 hours ago, Oldcarfan27 said: If you think that one's bad, this is my opinion of THEE worst box art - bar none! Box art is supposed to sell the kit, not chase buyers away - laughing! I can't imagine who approved this abomination, it certainly won't attract first time buyers. Luckily the contents are a lot better than the cover. Gotta agree there, then combine it with a boring version of a car built durning what was probably the worst time for the automobile..........it's like a trifecta of suckage.
MrObsessive Posted July 29, 2018 Posted July 29, 2018 12 minutes ago, Joe Handley said: it's like a trifecta of suckage.
SfanGoch Posted July 29, 2018 Posted July 29, 2018 Could be a product tie-in with their 1/46 F-15 kit.
echo Posted July 29, 2018 Posted July 29, 2018 There are so many more bad box art examples than the one that started this discussion. Most experienced modelers will look past the box and see what their vision of the kit can be made out of it, however to a new modeler I would think the people running the model companies would make an attempt to entice them with attractive box art. That said a creative artists rendering costs more than an afterthought, which much box art seems to represent. Generally Round 2 retro box art and Moebius generally seems to have attractive box art.
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