Airfix Box Art by Roy Cross - Nostalgia is a (beautiful) thing of the past!

A selection of pictures from this magnificent book that will transport you to those glory days...

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• airfix
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• cross

[slyonme]

i have found two beautiful paints in my dads garage singed by Roy Cross himself in 1983..

they both have certificates of authencitys..

reckong they worth anything..

[MakingModelsAgain]

@slyonme Nah, not if someone's written on them. Tell you what, just send them to me and I'll dispose of them for you.... totally free of charge. Heck, I'll even pay for your postage. ;)

Sir, I am envious of you. What planes are they of...?

[bigendbob]

These are to blame for me being a 12,000 hour flying instructor.

The first kit the bright yellow Auster.

Just rekindled my interest by buying off ebay 1/24 Harrier.

Last time i built this kit was 1976!

[MakingModelsAgain]

@bigendbob 1976...? See what you've been missing all those years spent mucking around with those phony real things? ;) Hope you're going to post the results on YouTube...?

[xiejianfa]

with this hobby of ours, we become young again! full of excitement and life once more!!!! hands trembling with excitement as we open the box of model with shaking hands...and anticipation!

[MakingModelsAgain]

@xiejianfa It's such an odd thing, how a box of bits of plastic can do that to a grown man! As a kid, I couldn't wait to get home to see inside that I'd open the box sitting on the bus. A month ago, at the IPMS Scale Model World show in Telford, when we were heading back to the hotel, in the car, I was doing the same thing with my purchases. We never change. :)

[Simona050]

I began modelmaking very young and I often bought as many airfix kits as pocket money allowed just for the Roy Cross artwork. Years late, I became a professional aviation and maritime artist . I owe my greatest influences to Roy and his beautiful art. I had the honour to meet him at a Guild of Aviation Artists show in London some years before his death and tell him what he had fired in me as a child. His death came as a real blow. like losing a member of one's own family. God Bless you Roy.

[xiejianfa]

- In HongKong,on 8/12/11, Bought 10 boxes of Tamiya plastic model planes. Cost only HK$14-00 per box ! -BAC Lightning,Dassault mirage IIIC ,F4EJ Phantom II, , LTV A-7A Corsair II, Fiat G91, A-6A Intruder, MIG-19 Farmer, Ilyushin IL-28 Beagle, Mig-21 Fishbed, ME 262A /ME163B, all 1/100 scale. these were the offer items! They can be found at UML Toystore( Mongkok Area - Dundas Road/Nathan Road), Nathan Road, HK. Shop opens at 12 noon till 9 pm. Enjoy your visit and purchase!

[madharry45]

What a great trip down memory lane. I've been building models since I was 7 years old and that was 60 years ago. Airfix kits were available here in the USA quite early on. I now have something close to 926 unbuilt model kits and I've never owned a shop and I'm not a collector, but it takes a hell of alot less time to buy them then it does to build them. Oh well he who dies with the most toys wins.

[modelpro72]

What a great video. I had a nice trip down memory lane. Saw a few kits that I have made over the years too. Thank you for putting it on fella. All the best to you. Lenny

[bigendbob]

To making models again....Yes this time it will be a bit different to the last time i assembled this kit, hope i can do it justice now all the real UK ones are grounded, will post a video when fininised

[xiejianfa]

@MakingModelsAgain they're priceless to us....am glad my youngest son is following my footsteps now....



[slyonme]

@MakingModelsAgain ..roy cross signature is on the right hand side...

and the certificate is verified by roy cross himself and also has his signature..

they not planes pictures. one of them is a painting of ' old boats arriving in small circulay quay sydney australia' in the 1800,and the other is in somewhere in london 1820, dated in 1983 they both in framed..i been doing research and found roy cross is a famous dude.