Ok Gents, I’ve been wanting to do this GB for a long time. This GB is about those kits that we just had to have as soon as we saw the box. The plastic inside might have been the biggest styrene turd on the planet (or not), but we told ourselves it was all good if it came in a box that cool!
NOTE: Some manufacturers would not have box art, but a photo of the completed model on the box top. These are ok as well as long as it is what made you want to buy the kit!
Of course, you can build a modern kit if you like, as long as you got it for the box art! However, my main hope for this GB is that you aquire a kit from the past (likely with raised panel lines and / or rivets) , and for the love of the box art and the hobby, turn it into the best it can be. Try not to go Steven Austin on the kit – use as much of the original plastic and you can and be true to what came in the box. I know there will be exceptions, AMS will set in, but try …
Post a picture of your kit box art (to be displayed next to your name on the roster!)
Optionally, Please tell use what you love obout your kits box art. Why you just had to have it.
The GB will run from 10/15/2022 to 12/14/2023. Kits shold be unstarted, but slightly started is OK.
I have too many failed GBs to try to enter this one, but the theme made me think back to my younger days, when I first laid eyes on Monogram’s 1/48 P-61 Black Widow. Yeah it was the age of “photo of built up kit on the box”, but I really liked it and the side panel photos, and it DID move me to a purchase. $6.75 was steep for a middle school kid, but I had no regrets. The Shep Paine diorama sheet was like gilding the lilly. Ha, ha, but today you would have a hard time convincing me to get another one! Same thing for Revell’s classic 1/72 B-17 Memphis Belle, but that one had the cool painting for box art.
Okay now that I have interrupted the classrom, I will look into the stash to see if I can play. But no promises! [:P]
Nice idea. Many of the kits I bought were inspired by the box art, mainly from “our latest acquvisition” thread. I am in this one, just don’t know with what yet as I tend to keep the stash small.
Understandable Real G. I almost did not post this GB… I thought to myself, I have too many started builds to run a group build… but, based on that logic, I would never be able to run a group build! [H] So I just jumped in . I’ll add you to the Roster just in case …
I’ve been MIA for the past few months but I think I may be able to get my bench set up, running and in production at least by next Oct. So count me in for something. I have lot of stuff that was bought for it’s box art.
Nice Box Art 68GT. You’re on the roster. I was actually toying with the idea of doing the hasegawa/minicraft F-4E. It has some really cool artwork on the box as well.
I’d like to join with a Revell Germany 1:72 F-16C in Tigermeet livery. I saw the box art and just had to buy it. Why? I really like these non-standard schemes.
