Box art as posters?

[Peter Roberts]

With some of the recent releases around the Battle of Britain Anniversary, I for one have been quite impressed with the box art on some. This isn't limited to recent releases; some older releases have had some quite striking box art. Some of the more recent Airfix releases (Spitfire, Hurricane) have caught my eye, the recent Eduard release has a very striking box top.

 

Many years ago Hasegawa released copies of their box art as posters, a bit larger than A3 size.

 

Am I alone in wanting these as larger art?

 

I would have thought it would be fairly easy and cheap these days to print these off as large size prints, and may be another income stream for these companies?

[Orso]

What? You have space to hang posters? Your stash is to small!  😀

[Work In Progress]

13 hours ago, Peter Roberts said:

With some of the recent releases around the Battle of Britain Anniversary, I for one have been quite impressed with the box art on some. This isn't limited to recent releases; some older releases have had some quite striking box art. Some of the more recent Airfix releases (Spitfire, Hurricane) have caught my eye, the recent Eduard release has a very striking box top.

 

Many years ago Hasegawa released copies of their box art as posters, a bit larger than A3 size.

 

Am I alone in wanting these as larger art?

 

I would have thought it would be fairly easy and cheap these days to print these off as large size prints, and may be another income stream for these companies?

In general it's not a potential income stream for model companies but for the artists whose work it is. 

e.g. 

http://shigeokoike.com/

https://www.adamtooby.com/

[Rolls-Royce]

Eduard has recently done that with some of their box art. That for their new Spitfire Mk I could get the same treatment. One can only hope.

[opus999]

I wouldn't have room to hang them up, but I'd buy some anyway!  

[Nick Belbin]

Adam Tooby has been selling his art for years and is usually on the Airfix stand at Telford.

And I seem to recall Shigeo Koike of Hasegawa fame had his artwork for sale at one point.

 

Nick

 

[Peter Roberts]

8 hours ago, Rolls-Royce said:

Eduard has recently done that with some of their box art. That for their new Spitfire Mk I could get the same treatment. One can only hope.

Didn't know that - is it on their website?

[Peter Roberts]

9 hours ago, Work In Progress said:

In general it's not a potential income stream for model companies but for the artists whose work it is. 

e.g. 

http://shigeokoike.com/

https://www.adamtooby.com/

Thank you - wasn't aware of those sites. Excellent!

[Retired Bob]

1 minute ago, Peter Roberts said:

Didn't know that - is it on their website?

Yep, and several are framed and on my man cave walls.

[Rolls-Royce]

5 hours ago, Peter Roberts said:

Didn't know that - is it on their website?

Yes, indeed.

https://www.eduard.com/eduard/posters/?cur=2

[Peter Roberts]

Thank you for the links guys - in good time for Fathers Day here in Oz!