Reminder: There is NO BPMS Zoom Meeting on Tuesday, Mar 18.
The BPMS Live meeting is this Friday, March 21, at the Bergen
Beach athletic center – It’s decal swap night and Green Model theme night in
honor of St. Patrick’s Day! Bring whatever
you built that’s Green.
Last Tuesday, Mar. 11, Eleven people attended the BPMS Zoom
and talked about their personal favorite box art.
New kit release news from Lu announced the arrival of the 1/35
M10 Booker from Magic Factory and the new 1/35 Jagdpanzer and Panzer IVH from
Border Models.
Lu’s own favorite box art memory was from the ancient Revell
1/72 scale F-111A and B. He recalled a tour of the Grumman facility in Calverton
Long Island when he saw the Navy’s F-111B on the assembly line. Years later, during
a California visit to Hughes Aircraft, he was treated to a surprise F-111B
flyover.
Vaughan showed progress on his Tamiya 1/48 Mosquito and critiqued
the uninspiring cover art on an otherwise nice kit. He observed, “When I was younger, knocking off
a model a weekend, I’d cut the box art off and had a huge folder of ‘em. New box art is not very exciting.”
Kevin showed is hand sculpted Martian from Five Million
Years to Earth and recalled, “I really got into the Aurora monsters and dinosaurs.
You’d get into the box art and then get into the plastic.” One of his Aurora
favorites remains the grisly Forgotten Prisoner.
Frank G. recalled the inspiring art of James Bama on old Aurora
kits. He favorites was the box top painting
of the Hunchback of Notre Dame with a resemblance to actor Anthony Quinn. “The
model looks like Lon Chaney, but it really transported you when you’re a kid.” Franks
other Aurora favorites were the depictions of the Dick Tracy Moon Coupe, and
the Seaview submarine and the associated Flying Sub from Voyage to the Bottom
of the Sea.
Mark recalled the impact of the dramatic rendering on Revell’s
old B-7 Flying Fortress kit and admitted, “To a 14-year-old kid, this was
pretty amazing.” He also acknowledged, “Tamiya had awesome box art when we were
kids. Nowadays, I notice bad box art. The I Love Kit company has some of the worst
box art. The AMK F-14D box art looks backwards.” He concluded that packaging is
still important to what modelers buy, “Bad box art doesn’t sell. It can be
greatest kit ever, but If you see good box art, that can really sometimes stoke
your interest.”.
Angelo showed of his 1/72 Revell RF-4E in an attractive
black commemorative scheme. His favorite box art today comes from Warhammer
vehicles.
Bobby offered, “I like any of the Japanese anime boxes. The
box art is just beautiful.”
Jimmy talked about his 1/35 Tiger in progress and the value
of Tamiya panel liner To pick out fine wheel decals.
Gil recommended using the Looper glue applicator to apply
panel liner and explained. “You have a lot more control than the brush that
comes with the bottle.” Gil’s own favorite box art is that from an otherwise
mediocre Revell kit of the Volkswagen beetle.” His most recent projects is a
figure of the demon Lilith.
President Tom recalled, “The box-art I remember and love the
most were on the Airfix airplane kits from the late 1960s. I used to take the
box tops, flatten them out, cut them with a paper cutter just above the Airfix
name have a perfect picture. I used to save those -- the Me110 was my favorite.”
Frank C still collects box art in digital form, either
picking the best renderings off the
internet or occasionally scanning old boxes.
One of his favorites remains the early C-130A from the Revell kit – a series
of paintings meant for young modelers to collect.
Remember – BPMS meeting this Friday – with some big news for
the club!
~Frank C.
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