Plymouth police car

I recently just got this wonderful box is one of the classical models of the seventies, a Plymouth Fury, in Police decoration, from the long missing mark Jo-Han, this brand specializing in cars and trucks, producing only a few planes, and no ship, the Boxart is not signed and is a bit simple, to slightly rough. Some time ago, I buy the model, but in mexican customs opened the box and this came empty, only turret, and I think incomplete, it appears that the stickers were for three different police forces.

Boxart that never was

One of the more obscure issues of modeling is on the Boxart that never appeared, there are works that only the manufacturer and the authors have seen, ever published for the general public, some of them have finished decorating a room or in the trash.

Boxart like this, was the product of the entrance to the market models of Binney & Smith, Mexico, for a short time Crayola manufacturers attempted to enter the Mexican market, with models Revell Monogram, but his mexican staff were incredibly inept, did not know anything about modeling, and I say absolutely nothing, it was no surprise that company fell out, with not even a year in the market. There  are obvious errors in the box, the model name, despite being one of the most famous airplanes of the West, is wrong, the photo is wrong and is not the model, a Lodela's F-4E, painted as if it was a F-4E Thunderbird.

One of his mistakes was printed wrong boxes, later used as interior backboxes, but even the Boxart that finally sell their products was wrong, note incorrect plane's name, the final box was this:

DC-8 Lindberg

Come back to the 80s on, this is the boxart of one of the models from the commercial series Necomisa Lindberg, produced in Mexico under the seal of Pegasus, the model was very modest, the mold comes from the sixties and was one of the Lindberg first works, the DC-8 at the time was one of the most advanced aircraft in the world, and represents very well the technological trends in the modelling industry at that time, solid wings, few parts, no transparent parts, an exhibit based (absent in this version) and very simple decals.

In Mexico was reissued again and again, always keeping the same Boxart, I assume Necomisa buy the molds sometime, for some reason they never made decals for Aeromexico, the national airline in a local version of the plane.

The Boxart represents a plane of Panam, and was always the same, is not signed, it must be an American painter of the sixties or seventies, because the version of Lindberg has the same paint. This is the last national edition, and the box includes a novelty, an Airport model paper to accompany the model.

Brand Necomisa under the Pegasus seal, unknown artist, circa 1980, collection Sergio Tellez

B-58 Hustler, Revell

This time, the boxart of a model of the best times of Revell Lodela, the Convair B-58 Hustler, H-143 a magnificent model, despite its age, Hustler went out there from the time that models S was the most famous, in Mexico was reissued several times, this is the box for the latest edition in the eighties, flatten and store out there, I found her recently.

The boxart was very well done, with the insignia of the different strategic Air Forces of the United States, the Boxart is top, the signature is unintelligible, belongs to the series of air power is employed Blues of all shades, from Midnight Blue, light Blue up, reaching white, practically blue on blue, represents very well a plane flying at night over a city, dramatically highlights the light color against a black background, in the private collection of Sergio Tellez.

Kingfisher, Lindberg

In the late seventies, the Mexican brand Necomisa produce licensed Lindberg models, although Boxart was something sappy, just a picture with a diffused background obviously no ideas left over them his apartment Design, and perhaps therefore walked in second in sales and marketing. The model itself was good, the instructions noted a Mexican version, 74 of the FAM, but I did not have that decals, but possibly Lindberg original models would bring. 

Boxart unsigned near 1979, another boxart that existed in the previous edition, which unfortunately predates my day and never buy. 

F6F Hellcat, Airfix

Another box of the era of the seventies or eighties, this time an Airfix, is the model of a F6F Hellcat in 1/72 scale, at that time was the best Hellcat in the market, whith correctly parts, in reasonable detail, you could assemble one of two versions, the F6F-3 or a F6F-5 with decals for English and other USN apparatus. 

The colors in the boxart are matte, somewhat opaque, with a background just scribbled, barely visible, the composition, focused on a blue plane of the Fleet Air Arm, attacking a Japanese airfield, the painting is signed, unreadable, seems to say Jallo, but not sure. Sergio Tellez' private collection

B-25 Mitchell, Mexican Air Force

The mexican manufacturer Lodela producen in their final series, this magnificent B-25J Mitchell, who served in the Mexican Air Force in late World War II, as usual, does not bring the author's signature, but whoever it was, the composition is good, but the background is somewhat neglected, like all models in the series, it lacks realism, landscape painting is something, but that is what is in vogue today.

The model was Airfix, with pieces to make a belated D a J, H or with any major surgery, any of the modified transport aircraft, one must not forget that in Mexico at the end of his career were modified, removing armament and bomb bay, being used as transport, this requires removing the towers and the side machine guns. The decals were out of this world, with Mexican triangles, codes for the three aircraft used by the FAM, plus decals for an American plane and another Brazilian.

There are three preserved aircraft in the country, one in the museum at Chapultepec CFE, two in the forest of Aragon.

Brand Lodela Author unknown number M032 Series, catalog 1997.