Strangest box cover contest, who will be the winner?

[Daniel Iscold]

I´ll start this topic bringing two os the strangest box covers I ever seen: 

Share yours!!!! 

 

[Panzerwomble]

[ivanmoe]

Love the line on the boxtop of the '110, "Actual model may very from the box art."

 

But that could be a selling point, right?

 

Seriously, however, I learned as a kid not to put too much store in the promotional artwork associated with model planes.

 

Fifties-era Revell, for instance, had box art that routinely exceeded the virtues of the plastic, inside.

 

I can distinctly recall wishing that the manus would simply place a pic of the completed model on the outside, a practice that Revell would adopt, for a period of years, a decade later!

 

 

 

 

Edited June 14, 2022 by ivanmoe

[Out2gtcha]

At least they got the proportions correct on the top two!

[LSP_K2]

That '110 artwork is truly pathetic.

[Ryan]

3 minutes ago, LSP_K2 said:

That '110 artwork is truly pathetic.

Kev, its does state the model may "very" from the box art.

 

[LSP_K2]

On 6/14/2022 at 1:27 PM, ivanmoe said:

Seriously, however, I learned as a kid not to put too much store in the promotional artwork associated with model planes.

 

I can distinctly recall wishing that the manus would simply place a pic of the completed model on the outside, a practice that Revell would adopt, for a period of years, a decade later!

 

The artwork is what actually sold me on purchasing many kits way back when (some of the 1:32 Revel artwork is still held in high regard by me). My single biggest disappointment though, was a 1:700 Iowa class battleship. The box art was just very appealing to me, but when I got home and realized what I'd purchased, I had a tiny bathtub toy that represented a 65,000 ton battleship. I was really frustrated that I hadn't added two and two.

 

Photos of finished models on the box top spelt doom for many a kit that I might have otherwise purchased, as many of them, perhaps most, looked horrible.

[LSP_K2]

14 minutes ago, Ryan said:

Kev, its does state the model may "very" from the box art.

 

Right. and it may very well indeed vary from what's depicted. (See what I did there?)

[barkhorn]

I thought this was quite funny:

 

Sometimes the Chinese kit box arts address the recent events - note the background...

 

[Out2gtcha]

Lol, I know they had to backpedal quite a bit on the whole Z99 in San Fran story. I know some got a bit upset, but I think you have to take that kind of thing with a grain.  

[LSP_K2]

One of the worst that I've seen recently (of the finished model variety).

 

[Daniel Iscold]

Two more strange box covers. People in these look like aliens

 

[Daniel Iscold]

 

 

 

 

 

Edited June 15, 2022 by Daniel Iscold

[Guest Vincent]

16 hours ago, barkhorn said:

Sometimes the Chinese kit box arts address the recent events - note the background...

 

Can you display the empty ERA cells open ?

[LSP_K2]

7 hours ago, Daniel Iscold said:

 

 

 

I love the way the entire nose area points to starboard. And anything Nauy, is good with me.