i know i have.....and will CONTINUE to do so in the future
so, HOW ABOUT YOURSELF???
which kits were they??....AND are they still sitting around the home taking on dust???
hehehehe ;)
Actually, it was box art that sold me most of the time... Especially as a kid.. When Monogram and Revell started putting photos of the completed models on the box-top, I was sorely disappointed... Even wrote Revell about it and they answered with something like "We feel that the majority of people want to see what the model looks like when completed."... Heh... Right...
The Revell and "Blue Box" Monogram box art of the 60s and early 70s (before they went "white-box and photos") was top-notch in my book... Always some action going on... I cut the box art out and taped it to my bedroom walls back then, lol... Good times, they were...
Absolutely, when I was a kid, and knew nothing of the kit itself. Fit issues didn't mean a thing! I'd put the whole thing together in one night, no paint, no sanding, 1/4 inch seem gaps. But in my minds eye, I saw that awseome bird that graced the box. Like Hans, I'd cut out the plane, and set it on the shelf behind my build........"WOW, it looks just like it!!!"
Little confession.......I still cut em out and save em!!!! And , to this day, have never bought a kit that had a photo of the completed model on the box top. I have aquired a few, never paid for em though.
FERMIS
Hans von Hammer wrote: I cut the box art out and taped it to my bedroom walls back then, lol... Good times, they were...
I love collecting all the box art, hopefully I'll have enough soon to cover an entire wall. Hey, it looks better then that modernist crap they call art.
Sure did as a kid when the box art was all I knew about the subject. Steeles work for Revell was great stuff. Always liked Revells art over Monogram. Although Monogram did have some neat art. Tamiya has always been way cool! Now the question is have I bought a kit with crappy box art? Yes I have, Dragon has had a couple of armor kits, but I think Trumpeter has some of the wierdest art. Their big T-34s remind me of Stalinist propaganda posters. Some of the ship art is really mediocre. The 1/350 San Francisco and North Carolina are not attractive at all. A brown sky on the N.C. kit does nothing for it. Bought them both just because I like the subjects. Ron Volstads work has alwas attracted me. I think I buy the Dragon figure sets just because of the box.
John Steel did some fantastic work for Revell back in the sixties. The box art was meant to be cut out and framed. Here is a sample:
All the time! The last kit I bought JUST for the box art was the new Dragon 1/32 scale Messerschmitt Me110 C-7. Hasegawa has great box art, and it has sold them many a kit to yours truly. I loved the old Aurora box art as a kid, and the Monogram blue bordered box art. Airfiz had some good art as well.
I'm guilty as well.
The last run Airfix C-130 Boxart was so nice, I bought 4.
The AMT C-135 Series (NKC, EC, KC-A and R and RC) Great art work.
The large scale Trumpeter 109s and 190 are very good as well.
Cheers
Let's see . . . you betcha! Growing up, box art was the main influence in grabbing a Revell, Airfix or Frog kit at the local drug or toy store (we were not blessed with a LHS in Mount Prospect, other than the Squadron shop in Des Plaines). And of course any kit that was blessed by Shep Paine for Monogram.
Even today most of the Dragon box art is an inticement. If the cover protrait does not get me, the side and bottom "kit features" panels are usually enough to seal the deal (when I have money for the purchase, that is).
Don't get anything stuck where it does not belong!
I did when I was a kid, thats for sure. I think Revell had some of the greatest box art back then, especially their 1/32 aircraft series. Ones that were bought would have to be the F4F (Coral Sea box art) UH-1D Slick ("Headhunters" landing in a rice paddy) and Gunship (two rolling in hot on a downed river bridge), AH-1G Cobra , JU-87 (Desert Snake), P-40E Flying Tiger, P-47D bubbletop (candy striped tail strafing a rail yard), and Ki-61 Tony. I had the Ki-61 Tony up on my bedroom wall (along with a movie poster for "Midway"- great one there) until I left for the Army. I still have the poster but the Tony is long gone....
I dont think I will buy anymore based on box art alone.... But I still do appreciate it. Roden has a great print that came with their OV-1A