Roy Cross | Airfix
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- Roy was and forever will be an important part of our history, inspiring many modellers over decades through his incredible illustrations.
Our thoughts go to his family during this difficult time.
“Fly on, old friend”
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Thank you Roy for setting my imagination alive as a child.....it's still on fire today......RIP
Thank you Roy, your pictures drew a 7 year old boy into the world of Aircraft, building models, flying real ones, and now flying radio control ones. All down to you Roy. Rest in peace mate, you made a 70 year old man a very happy young boy.🦘🇦🇺👍🏼😔
I hope all the Roy Cross arts will be put on Airfix calendar 2025 as a tribute to his finest Airfix art collection of all time. RIP Roy Cross thank you for amazing childhood arts.
Excelente ideia.
Here here!
I would buy it every year.
Great idea
Well any that are not WW2 German because of the Swastika Snowflakes!
I grew up building Airfix kits in the 1960s and I was fascinated by his paintings. What a fantastic artist. My condolences to the family. RIP Roy
As a young boy in the ‘70s I’d cut the box tops off Airfix kits and pin them on my bedroom wall. I’d lie on my bed on rainy days, staring at those wonderful pictures and thinking about the next kit I’d buy. Magical pictures, magical times, thank you Roy and every other Airfix artist.
Thank you Roy for making my childhood better. I hope you knew how much pleasure and wonder you bought to so many young, and old.
An outstanding talent, and sold many a kit for Airfix without a shadow of doubt.
RIP Roy, your art lives on.
His illustrations made you want to buy the kit. A true artist,the boxes came alive through his craft. Great talent.
As a modeller now in my 60s, I am still as inspired and excited by Roy's paintings as I was as a kid in the 1960s eager to spend my pocket money on my next Airfix kit
His art work was part of my growing up in the 70s (born 1964), the time spent in Woolworths in Coventry admiring his art work and planning which model was next to build. I realise that as I reach 60 this year my childhood is disappearing, Woolworths is long gone, my secondary school is also gone and people who influenced me in my childhood like Roy are also going. All part of the inevitability of the passing of Time that waits for none of us.
Cheer up old chap 👍🏻👍🏻
Think of the time when you inevitably brought together Airfix and fireworks….. for me I was between 12 and 13 with just enough knowledge and destructive desire. A few well tested suggestions below:
1. Airfix C130 Hercules on a ramp in the middle of a back street in a south coast town in the early 70’s. Four rockets stuffed into the cargo hold and fuse joined with a single Jetex fuse (innovative). “It flies” screamed the assembled masses (well about half a dozen of my mates). “It’s hit that car”…. Closely followed by “runaway”
2. Airfix kit of HMS Devonshire (D02 County Class destroyer). The place, Canoe Lake Southsea. The design, one mini rocket in place of the SeaSlug launcher. Result failure as the ship rolled over and the ground to air missile immediately became a torpedo.
3. Airfix kit of HMS Fearless (some many decades later I stood on the Round Tower as she sailed in with a wonderful long decommissioning pennant flying proudly). Fearless being an Amphibious Assault ship had a huge flight deck suitable for two rockets. Canoe Lake beckoned and the assembled masses witnessed another step in British military technology - the flying ship. None of this flat out at 25kts. This was zero to a flight altitude of five feet and one hundred mph (we guessed the speed - it’s gone up in the ensuing 50 or so years). Sadly we had chosen the rockets with the “ooh - ahhh” ending. And so it was HMS Fearless exploded into its component parts far faster than it took me to assemble it. Much cheering from the assembled crowd.
So, don’t be sad. Have memories and chuckle repeatedly at the foolhardiness of Yoof and revel in the fact that UA-cam can stream you almost perfect musical memories of your youth. Except for the ones that were on TOTP the same time as a certain Jimmy Saville…
It would be appropriate if Airfix dedicated a kit to the memory of Roy Cross❤
Roy Cross died 24/4-2024, at the age of 100 years and one day❤
The Do. 217 as it was his first Airfix commission?
@@mikes5637 Agreed..
As a child picking up my paper round money only to go straight to my local model shop to buy a new Airfix model kit, Roy's art work made it very exciting in the choosing of a new kit every Saturday. The master of the paint brush, a part of history in many peoples lives. God bless.
Thank you for keeping this big kid out of mischief - Golden days spent in the sunshine of my Happy youth❤
Airfix should definitely sponsor an exhibition of his artwork, with prints available to buy. It is only fitting for such a talented artist. Thank you Roy. ❤
I remember them all Mr Cross, spent hours looking at the box art back in the 60s and 70s without realising it was your work. Thank you for all of those happy memories.
Thank you Roy you was my inspiration in building Airfix kits back in the 60s and 70s. My thoughts going to his family and friends ❤️ R. I. P. And keep painting 🖼 them wherever you are.
He left a mark in my life‘s history. Regards from Germany, RIP Roy Cross.
His art inspired many of us kids in the 1960’s. 👍🏻
He art captured my imagination as a young boy to buy Airfix models and I still make them today....Thanks Roy.. RIP
Thanks Roy for setting me on this modeling journey, your artwork inspired me as a child setting off my imagination RIP. My thoughts and prayers to your family and friends at this time.
The Roy Cross artworks on those Airfix kits inflamed my imagination . I was a very young kid of 8 years of age when i was gifted an Airfix model kit for the very first time , on my birthday . I enjoyed the experience of building the model so much that many family members went on to buy me Airfix kits for my birthdays and Christmas . I remember spending a good deal of time looking at the Roy Cross paintings , i loved them so much . Thank you Roy Cross for helping to make my childhood a very enjoyable experience . R.I.P.
The Sunderland - absolutely awesome. I always wanted one in the sixties but could never afford one. Every sixties modeller loved those illustrations. I had no idea he made the 100, fantastic talent, never to be forgotten. Thanks for the memories, Roy.
Without his artwork Airfix would not have become the successful company the got to be back then.
Sadly missed but NEVER forgotten...Mr Cross IS Airfix
Fantastic box covers. I have kept most of them after completion of the kits. Too good to throw away. He did so many, just wonderful. A real artist.
Thanks Mr Cross. I gazed in awe at the shelves of boxes crowned with your special inspirational pictures every one. My birthday money hot in my hand and, as it seemed to the11 year old me, the world of adventures within my grasp. 52 years later and nothing has changed. In the shop I'm 11 again. Thanks Mr Cross.
Thank you Roy for your great artworks 🙏😢
A wonderful artist who inspired such pleasure in my childhood and still today -rest in peace Roy.
Making hundreds of Airfix kits with Roy’s wonderfully evocative box art was a huge part of my childhood and youth. It sparked my creativity & imagination in a way I can only fully appreciate looking back. I sincerely and deeply thank you Roy and all at Airfix down the years.
Bless him a big part of my childhood
Thank you, Mr. Cross, for all the joy your art has given us.
The Lancaster is my favorite of all time, such a dramatic painting and got me into modeling in a big way
My memories of Roy's iconic box-art will never fade.
the box artwork inspired me into model building, over 50 years ago. Fantastic career,
Thank you, just, thank you!
I spent hours and hours as a child perusing the stacks of Airfix models in my local model shops. I immediately recognized some of the ones in this video clip. Beautiful!
An incredibly talented artist, able to bring such life to everything he ever put to canvas. I love all of his work and I'm glad to see him remembered here. A great man.
Roy's box art definitely did influence my purchases of Airfix kits. On video, I saw a few I had as a teen.
I think it would be a nice tribute to Roy. If Airfix published a coffee table book of Roy's artworks. Roy Cross in bold letters and "The Art of Airfix" underneath, would be a good title.
My Sympathy to his family and Airfix for the loss of the great father and artist.
Excelente ideia também.
"The Vintage Years of Airfix Box Art" and "More Vintage Years of Airfix Box Art" are available. Many of the kit illustrators of that era have done books.
Great upload Airfix and thank you Mr Cross, you inspired a generation.
How I remember as a nipper seeing the 1/24th Airfix Spitfire Mk1a in early 70's and badgering my parents to get me one for Christmas, shortly after making it I decided to recreate the Battle of Britain film by filling the engine with petrol I syphoned from my dad's car, setting light to it and throwing it out of the bathroom window, just missing the dog, what memories!
D. Airfix 1/72: Dornier Do 217 E war, glaub' ich, mein' siebtes Modell. Baute z. d. Z. (1965) nur Airfix. D. Bausätze gab' es in einem Haushaltswarenladen im Nachbarort. In einem Schaufenster waren sie, in einer Ecke, hochkant gestapelt. Es waren eben d. Deckelbilder von Roy Cross d. zum Kauf animierte. D. Bilder waren einfach klasse, spitze, super! Damals Serie 1 für 2,-DM, Serie 3 für 3,-DM usw. Jedes Deckelbild hatte ich ausgeschnitten u. in meiner Stube an eine Wand geheftet. Jeder Groschen wurde für einen Bausatz gespart. Von Wegen: Haste den schon? Danke Airfix! Danke Roy Cross! Sollst es gut haben in Walhalla!
I used to go to Woolworths every Saturday morning to see if there was a new Airfix kit. The Auster Antarctic and Avro Lancaster were landmark kits. The Roy Cross pictures were the icing on the cake.
I wrote to Roy about 10 years ago...He wrote back with an autograph that I had requested which is now framed with a print of his iconic Airfix Lanc and I still have his letter...I told him what his art work had meant to me growing up and the fact that I had been a muralist for 30 years...I sent him a couple photos of my work...Greatly missed by the modelling community
Nice!
Bonita historia
Quite frankly I would have expected Airfix to devote more than 1 minutes 22 seconds to the memory of Mr Cross.
Yes I agree. And it should have been presented by someone higher in the company like Dale.
Yes - perhaps a 30 minute special or, as was muted at the time of Roy's passing, a sponsored exhibition of his work?
A very nice obituary. I don’t build models, but I am a retired aircraft engineer and appreciate such a man…..
Be it for the boxes I bought or for the numerous hours spent with the catalog, that brings back a lot of memories indeed.
Thanks a lot to this gentleman.
I never even knew he was such part of my life... thank you Roy... I was a decade in the RAF because of you... Per Ardua Ad Astra... o7
The Bristol Blenheim .... never seen this picture again since about 50 years. But in the second I saw it in the video, memories came back at once!
Where do you begin!So many of his paintings are terrific, they are so well designed as well as painted.
I work in a totally different artistic sphere, but before I knew who Rembrandt ,Rubens or Picasso were ,I was aware of these wonderful images ,from the boxes of the kits I made in the 60s and 70s .
His work still stands comparison with the very best of aviation painting today.
Bless him , a very dear reminder of childhood times ( 63 years old man from Belgium )
Have recently bought the Sixty Years Of Airfix Models book as shown in the picture with Roy ! Fantastic book and Roy's artwork is brilliant 👏 RIP and thank you x
A remarkable talent. My condolences and best wishes to his family and friends.
So sad to hear... his paintings where art... those Airfix boxes looked alive... a true artist... shall be missed. RIP...
Best 10 years you ever had! Cheers Roy.....
Thanks for the video. Those Airfix box pictures trigger something deep in my brain, a brief flicker of excitement and expectation that seems impossible to recapture or experience in quite the same way in adult life. I didn't know you, Roy - but your work has been seared for decades deep somewhere inside this once young, enthusiastic model maker's head; thankyou.
Roy made an generation enthousiast for model building RIP
Very much appreciated and grateful for Roy's artwork. 🇦🇺🙏
From building model kits as a kid..too building custom motorcycles as an adult.it fired my imagination and put me on the road to playing with metal instead of plastic but without these kits I might not of ever gone down such a road so RIP sir you helped my imagination run wild
Thank you Roy for your wonderful artwork, it inspired me to become an illustrator. Your work took my imagination to wonderful places.
One of my personal favourites was the box art for the Airfix Boeing B17G 'A bit 'o' Lace'. Incredible to think that when the factory at Haldane Place, Wandsworth closed many original Roy Cross artworks were dumped in a skip from which at least some were rescued.
Great box art, grew up with it. Thanks Roy.❤
I still keep many of his box lids. British kids were greatly influenced by his work for generations and generations to come. RIP
rest in peace brought so many happy childhood memories through his artwork
Thanks for the wonderful memories Roy. RIP 🌹
Mr Cross. Thank you.
Hos pics on Airfix Boxes will always belong to the memories of childhood ... never achieved again by any other deco on kitboxes
Beautiful illustrations, I bought the Do217 and so many others kits, the Lancaster 's one was one of my favourite, pity that Airfix wasn't able to modernize its production as the Japan 's brands were, but I'm glad that they have started to reach again the customers.
Easily on a par with Robert Taylor and Nicholas Trudgian in aviation art. As a kid I used to spend as much time looking at every detail of the box art as building the kit. Thank you for the inspiration, Mr Cross.
As a kid back then I've often wondered who painted the lovely box art. My first Airfix kits were Spitfire, Bf109 and my favourite Fw190D.
Flying Fortress BIT OF LACE from the 1960’s is my favourite and it was a real plane 👍
I'm glad he shared his beautiful artistic gift with us! A typical gift of good people. I believe in a future where he, and all of us, can use our gifts with joy and without the pressure of time to limit us. I trust Jesus’ promise in John 5:28, 29; 6:40,47. May this promise comfort family and friends. From a fan of this art, from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
What a talented gentleman, my favourites were the B-17G and the Sunderland
RIP Roy, job well done!
Amazing art. So talented.
The best in my opinion with the illustrator of hasegawa
What a legend ❤
Fantastic artist
Great artists.
Your artwork inspired many Airfix purchases. My 'Attic Stash' is full off your work.
Yes, I did bought kits because of the boxes. I still do.
Roy was an absolute legend! He was renowned for his deep research into each and every project he undertook.
BTW it's Prinz Eugen (pronounced oi-gen, a hard g as in good). Amazing what a tiny bit of research will do... you should try it sometime. 😊
A Great Talent, and a Sad Loss
Desde el fin del mundo 🇨🇱 gratos recuerdos de sus hermoso arte del Señor Roy. Aun sigo contemplando y disfrutando los detalles de sus pinturas de aviones, al mirar un antiguo catalogo de Airfix de los años 70.
Ju 88, the first airfix kit I built, partly chosen because of the box artwork.
Didn't know he had passed; very sad indeed.
Somehow my models never matched the artwork on the box!
Should have got Roy to paint them!
Captain Scarlet Interceptor was great box art . Airfix can you please do C S Angle Interceptor re realise again in 1/48 scale or studio 1/24 ? . They did a re release in 1/72 about 10 years ago .
Just had a thought whilst reading someone else's post - did Roy ever make any of the kits he did the box art for?
Lest we forget…..
A lovely tribute for an extremely talented gentleman. But why can't anyone on YT pronounce the name Prince Eugene correctly, it's a German vessel so German pronunciation applies.
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My favourite would be Bismark.
I cant find model kits anywhere now.
Box art, if done well, can sell a lot of kits....
I'm waiting for the mosquito in 1/24 scale to be released again.
l would buy prints , especially if the funds go to a charity
That Dornier 217 wasn't original....It did not have a damn Swastika on the tail. Roy Cross would not have tolerated that!!!
I m sorry 🇬🇧❤️😍
This man is the reason I got in to Airfix thank you sir you will not be forgotten 🫡
Agreed...his artwork IS Airfix
Estimado señor, donde podría conseguir y comprar un catálogo o álbum con las pinturas de los aviones del Señor Roys. Admiro el arte del Señor Roys.
@@alb707 hello I do not know but I’m sure some one here could help I will look myself see if I can help you 🫡👍🏻