The 1960s and early 1970s might be called the vintage years of Airfix,
when some of their best and most popular kits were produced. For ten
years up to 1974, renowned artist Roy Cross produced some of the
stunning paintings that appear on the boxes of Airfix kits of the era.
Roy set the standard for such artwork, to the extent that many are still
used today, four decades later. Roy Cross's The Vintage Years of Airfix
Box Art contained a host of the paintings he prepared for Airfix, but
the unearthing of many more images in old Airfix files has enabled this
entirely fresh look at Roy's work to be presented, coinciding with the
seventy-fifth anniversary of the first Airfix kit. Thus the remainder of
Roy's ten years' work for Airfix is reproduced here.