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Roy Cross The Vintage Years of Airfix Box Art (Hardback)
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- Publication Name
- The Vintage Years of Airfix Box Art
- Title
- The Vintage Years of Airfix Box Art
- EAN
- 9781847970763
- ISBN
- 9781847970763
- Genre
- Fashion & Design
- Release Date
- 26/01/2009
- Release Year
- 2009
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- GB
- Item Length
- 305mm
- UPC
- 9781847970763
- Publication Year
- 2009
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- The Vintage Years of Airfix Box Art
- Item Height
- 280mm
- Publisher
- The Crowood Press Ltd
- Item Width
- 305mm
- Item Weight
- 1012g
- Number of Pages
- 128 Pages
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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 millions, ready for eager youngsters to build up into detailed miniature models fro their favourite aircraft, ships and locomotives. AUTHOR: Roy Cross RSMA GAvA was born in Southwark and began work as an illustrator in Fairey Aviation during World War II. Over the next thirty years, Roy progressed to top-class advertising art for the aircraft industry and other companies including Airfix. For ten years he supplied artwork for Airfix, with his last painting for the company being the Germany heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen in 1974. In that year Roy set out on his own and he still paints and his glorious paintings can still be found today in art galleries and in private collections. Sadly, much of his Airfix artwork was destroyed and all that remains are the lids of many millions of boxes. He lives in Kent. 180 colour paintings
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The Crowood Press Ltd
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9781847970763
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Book Title
The Vintage Years of Airfix Box Art
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2009
Number of Pages
128 Pages
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280mm
Item Width
305mm
Item Weight
1012g
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United Kingdom
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