The STRANGE Box Art Thread

[Stuart]

Yeah I think Carlos has nailed it - I bet it's the Swastika.

[cbaltrin]

Yes, that could be it. I did not even remember that the kit came with those kill markings! Well at least that is one oddity explained...

[Stikpusher]

Well I just saw this announced release on Scalemates…. Only a Chinese company would love this friendly fire incident depicted on the box art…

[cbaltrin]

Hopefully it bombs

[Medicman71]

Hopefully it bombs

Oh it's not for us. The main man at Kinetic says that he doesn't care about the US market anymore for political reasons that we WILL NOT get into here. He really doesn't care if we like the box art or not. Well Mr Kinetic, that works both ways sir. Your kits are not that good and there's better options out there for a lot of what you put out. The Hasegawa Legacy Hornets just became popular again.

[speedgraflex]

As someone who pulls a paycheck at times for illustration work, I’ve been following this thread with interest! Thanks everyone!

From experience I’m often given a specific design brief that predetermines what I create as an artist, so a lot of compositional decisions are out of my hands.

Let’s look at a classic example by Roy Cross—





I’m not sure why, but his pencil/charcoal artwork was changed. I think sometimes it takes a sketch to see what works, but the pencils are sized to the box art and blank space for the kit title is included, which means Cross had already finished his preliminary work.

[cbaltrin]

Interesting example. Perhaps the 2nd image looks more like a dogfight whereas the 1st looks like the spits got the drop on some poor 110 drivers.

[keavdog]

Have a look at this 11 figure set box art

https://www.themodellingnews.com/2026/0 ... .html#more

[speedgraflex]

John! You win the round! I’m sure there will be some model builders who will want to add these poses to their diorama designs.

[Medicman71]

Have a look at this 11 figure set box art

https://www.themodellingnews.com/2026/0 ... .html#more