Revell's USS Intrepid

One of the beautiful boxes of the H-300 series, by far, the series that I liked the most of Revell Lodela's Boxart, and with some of the best ship paintings I have ever seen, is as usual in that series is by John Steel, and represents the USS Intrepid under attack.

The colors are intense, a naturalistic background with an orange sunset in the ocean, very much like the Turner, but with the aircraft carrier in a slightly off-center composition, with the waves denoting a forced maneuver, the ship is dodging the attack and we can almost feel that the roof is tilting and you have to hold on to something.

This box preserves the label of the extinct Gigante Store, model in the private collection of Sergio Tellez

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.

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