Here's an interesting piece of box art:
http://www.oldmodelkits.com/index.php?detail=2543&newlist=1&erl=Aurora-1-48-Japanese-Zero-88-100
It's by Mort Kuntsler, who later became extremely famous for his Civil War paintings.
I don't know where Aurora got the idea of making a Zero in bright yellow plastic, but a lot of people seem to have grown up thinking that was how the real ones were painted. I'd be curious to learn whether ANY Zero was ever painted yellow.
What's really interesting about this painting, though, is that the Zero is swooping over an attack transport (APA) with the hull number (in big, postwar shadow letters) PA212. APA 212 was the U.S.S. Montrose. Mr. Bussie (the operator of oldmodelkits.com, says the Aurora kit dates from either the late fifties or, more likely, the early sixties. In 1960 (according to Dr. Graham's history of Revell), Revell issued a Montrose kit (actually a reissue of the earlier Randall) - with big, postwar shadow letters on the hull.
Coincidence? Did Mr. Kunstler have a Revell Montrose next to his easel when he did the painting? Or was Aurora dropping a subtle hint about what it would like to do to Revell?
Interesting.
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