Dennis7423 Posted March 18, 2020 Share Posted March 18, 2020 Always a favorite, and a nostalgic one to boot! I remember falling in love with this kit as a kid, and the box art still grabs me every time I see it: Revell 1/32 P-51B, original boxing. 4773bt by Dennis SAuter, on Flickr - Dennis S. Thornton, CO USA BiggTim and D Bellis 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BiggTim Posted March 18, 2020 Share Posted March 18, 2020 (edited) 9 minutes ago, Dennis7423 said: Always a favorite, and a nostalgic one to boot! I remember falling in love with this kit as a kid, and the box art still grabs me every time I see it: Revell 1/32 P-51B, original boxing. - Dennis S. Thornton, CO USA LOve it! This one is my fave: And this one: Edited March 18, 2020 by BiggTim D Bellis, Dragon, MikeC and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eoyguy Posted March 18, 2020 Share Posted March 18, 2020 Nice site here for the great old boxart: https://boxartden.com/gallery/index.php/ And one that made me want to spend my "hard earned" allowance every time I went in the Ben Franklin store (yes youngsters, models used to be sold in every dime store, department store or toy store in existence): MikeC, D Bellis, Michael931080 and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_K2 Posted March 18, 2020 Share Posted March 18, 2020 1 hour ago, Dennis7423 said: Always a favorite, and a nostalgic one to boot! I remember falling in love with this kit as a kid, and the box art still grabs me every time I see it: Revell 1/32 P-51B, original boxing. 4773bt by Dennis SAuter, on Flickr - Dennis S. Thornton, CO USA I think the original was the Don Gentile version. Dennis7423, BiggTim, esarmstrong and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eoyguy Posted March 18, 2020 Share Posted March 18, 2020 It was: BiggTim, LSP_K2, D Bellis and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
esarmstrong Posted March 18, 2020 Share Posted March 18, 2020 My two favorites BiggTim, D Bellis, MikeC and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eoyguy Posted March 18, 2020 Share Posted March 18, 2020 Man, the Hurricane in that bottom pic has a seriously stunted wing! kalashnikov-47 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Williams Posted March 18, 2020 Share Posted March 18, 2020 The Hasegawa box art is beautiful, but I have to say that the action scenes in the old Revell box art appealed to me much more as a kid. BiggTim 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cicchino Posted March 18, 2020 Share Posted March 18, 2020 The Revell P-47 started it all for me. Fell in love with modeling and the Jug from that boxwood on. $2 at Grants department store in Florham Park, NJ. Building a Hasegawa 86th FG Jug at this very moment and after looking at evidence in Steve Luce‘s great book and a color video on Critical Past, I’m convinced that Revell got the blue cowl flaps for the 527th FS correct, and it‘s that blue that sets the box art off! BiggTim 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Posted March 18, 2020 Share Posted March 18, 2020 I almost managed to get the whole old 32nd scale Revell kits together, but the favorite boxart is, like already mentioned by others, the P51B shangri-la boxtop. But the actual boxart and kit that got me started modelling... in the past (and model built by my father with sticky shoe glue, go figure) was the "box-scale" Vought Crusader with the fin flash, IIRC.......great memories!!!! Jack BiggTim 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeC Posted March 18, 2020 Share Posted March 18, 2020 I certainly remember building that Ju 87 from the box with that artwork, and it was the biggest model I'd ever built to date at the time. I also did the Corsair, which wasn't that much smaller. Nobody's mentioned Revell's Fw 190D yet - not packed with shoot-'em-up action, yet imo it really captures the speed and urgency of a scramble to meet yet more B-17s, B-24s and P-51s. And yes, I've built this one too in my youth. Jack and BiggTim 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_K2 Posted March 18, 2020 Share Posted March 18, 2020 Two more of my favorites. Jack, BiggTim, Troy Molitor and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_K2 Posted March 18, 2020 Share Posted March 18, 2020 The folks at Revell must have liked this one as much as I do, as they used the same aircraft on the cover of the new Fw 190F-8. MikeC 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_K2 Posted March 18, 2020 Share Posted March 18, 2020 Needless to say, I really like this one too, for some reason. MikeC 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Posted March 18, 2020 Share Posted March 18, 2020 2 minutes ago, LSP_K2 said: Needless to say, I really like this one too, for some reason. ahhh i have that one too, together with a moskit excaust set....... LSP_K2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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