Thus! 
‘Classic’ Revell had some wonderfully talented box art illustrators. My favorite – and I’m not 100% sure, but the Thermopylae painting looks very much like his style – was the late master-illustrator Jack Leynnwood.
Nice short piece on some of Revell’s top box artists here; and a more in-depth piece on Jack Leynnwood on this site.
Really talented and dramatic rendering!
Aha!
There was sure a lot of beautiful Covers for sure! Besides Mr Jack Leynwood, there was of Course, Mr John Steele! The Box art on Revell’s boxes certainly did their part to sell the kit inside! I am sure that the different Artists employed in the trade were so special that folks do collect not only the Boxes, but, the Box Art! The life they could impart in these pieces was to me the reason why I bought the kit.
I don’t know about now, I don’t think at 79 I am going to be starting in that collecting genre. I did at have at one time, Some plastic storage boxes full of the Art, But gave it to a friend who Decorated the walls of his little restaurant with them!
Nice model too! 
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The book there by Dr. Graham is worth owning as well.
Bill
L love this example! My brother got this exact kit for Christmas one year and it is on my wish list.
tjs
Beautiful model!
tjs
GMorrison, I agree with you! Those Graham books, I have all of them, are great for reminising the “Good Ole Days” of modeling.
tjs
I remember as a kid my two older brothers sent away to Monogram and got posters of some of their aircraft boxart. I remember having the Stuka tank buster and the British Typhoon posters hanging up in my room as I was growing up. Wish they were still available.
tjs
Funny, I always cracked up at the box art for USS Arizona, with the main batteries firing during the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Or the Lindberg USS Manchester CL-83 under attack by Japanese aircraft.
She was launched March 5, 1946.
Bill
Why not? Ever see the movie Final Countdown?
Oho!
Got to pipe back in here. What I liked was the box-art for Civilian scenes too. They had a certain impetus to them. And the Nuclear Powerplant ( Which I didn’t have enough saved for) when it went bye-Bye. That art was worth noting too.The Smithsonian must’ve copied it but their “Photo” of the S.S. United States looks just like the Box-Cover.
Say what? Oh Lord eBay here I come!
Well it is one of the most rare and expensive kits Revell ever produced.