Vintage Years of Airfix Box Art by Cross, Roy

Vintage Years of Airfix Box Art (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781847970763)

Vendor: Roy Cross
Product type: Books
Format: Hardcover
$65.00
$65.00
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Vintage Years of Airfix Box Art by Cross, Roy

Vintage Years of Airfix Box Art

$65.00
Vintage Years of Airfix Box Art by Cross, Roy

Vintage Years of Airfix Box Art

$65.00
Format: Hardcover
Description
Description
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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.

Author: Roy Cross
ISBN-10: 1847970761
ISBN-13: 9781847970763
Publisher: Crowood Press (UK)
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2009
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.70lbs
Size: 12.30h x 11.00w x 0.60d
By Roy Cross
By Roy Cross
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Roy Cross was born in Southwark and began work as an illustrator in Fairey Aviation during World War Two. 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.

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