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The Vintage Years of Airfix Box Art by Roy Cross (2009, Hardcover)

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Vintage Years of Airfix Box Art, Hardcover by Cross, Roy, ISBN 1847970761, ISBN-13 9781847970763, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Airfix has been commercially producing plastic kits since 1952 and its models have been made by successive generations of young boys and men alike. In the 1960s, a talented graphic artist called Roy Cross was commissioned to paint some of the box art for Airfix, and for a 10-year-period he provided many of the glorious paintings seen on the boxes.

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Airfix has been commercially producing plastic kits since 1952 and its models have been made by successive generations of young boys and men alike. 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. Many are still being used today, a full four decades later. Inside the pages of this book are some of Roy's best artworks, shown here in full format and in superb detail, with many reproduced here in book form for the very first time. As well as his vintage box art, Roy has included many sketches and alternative versions of his Airfix box art. After Roy left Airfix in 1974, the company went through a turbulent time. The present owners are Hornby, who have ambitious plans for Airfix and the other brands it acquired including Scalextric and Corgi. The decade that Roy Cross worked for Airfix, though, could be classed as their vintage era, with some of their finest models being produced then in their millions, ready for eager youngsters to build up into detailed miniature models of their favorite aircraft, ships and locomotives.

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Publisher
T.H.E. Crowood Press
ISBN-10
1847970761
ISBN-13
9781847970763
eBay Product ID (ePID)
72705321

Product Key Features

Book Title
Vintage Years of Airfix Box Art
Author
Roy Cross
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Graphic Arts / Commercial & Corporate, Models, Subjects & Themes / General
Publication Year
2009
Genre
Design, Art, Crafts & Hobbies
Number of Pages
128 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
12.2in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
11.2in
Item Weight
42 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Nd497
Copyright Date
2009
Dewey Decimal
759.2
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes

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by _n9F4eDbQD-@Del...Sep 07, 2011
Beautiful Book- A Time Machine Back To Your Youth!
This book is a classic, no doubt of it! It brings back many happy moments of my youth through the beautiful images from the hand of Roy Cross... Painter of 200 different box-art paintings for Airfix Models of England through 1974. It also ties in with another book on the Aircraft Artwork of Roy Cross, by a different publisher. Images not found in one book can be found in the other. The quality and care of this fine book is visible throughout and simply must be viewed to be truly appreciated. I built many of these kits over the 30+ years of my skill building plastic modelling, and the paintings in this beautiful book were what drew me to them. Check it out for yourself, and I think you will find what I did... You Can Go Back In Time Through This Magical Volume!!! berner712/Steve Berner
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by nichopollaSep 30, 2020
Images from Roy Cross that bring back the earlier days of Airfix box art.
Nice to see the images before they were applied to box lids.
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by racer_888Nov 02, 2021
Excellent pictorial history
Excellent pictorial history of the man behind the Airfix boxarts in the 60's to 70's.
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Beautiful Book- A Time Machine Back To Your Youth!

Images from Roy Cross that bring back the earlier days of Airfix box art.

Excellent pictorial history

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