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Roy Cross (born 23 April 1924) RSMA is a British artist and aviation journalist best known as the painter of artwork used on Airfix kits from the 1960s. Born in Southwark, London and mainly self-taught, he learned his craft at the Camberwell School of Art and as a technical illustrator for training manuals for Fairey Aviation during the second world war. He progressed from there to producing advertising art for the aircraft industry and other companies. He illustrated for The Aeroplane and the Eagle comic. Much of the Airfix artwork was destroyed but the lids of many millions of boxes remain

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  • Roy Cross (* 23. April 1924 in Southwark/London) ist ein britischer Marinemaler, der durch seine Coverillustration für die Bausätze von Airfix maßgeblich zum Image der Firma in den 1960er/1970er Jahren beitrug. Cross ist Mitglied der Royal Society of Marine Artists und der . (de)
  • Roy Cross (born 23 April 1924) RSMA is a British artist and aviation journalist best known as the painter of artwork used on Airfix kits from the 1960s. Born in Southwark, London and mainly self-taught, he learned his craft at the Camberwell School of Art and as a technical illustrator for training manuals for Fairey Aviation during the second world war. He progressed from there to producing advertising art for the aircraft industry and other companies. He illustrated for The Aeroplane and the Eagle comic. In 1952 he joined the , but it is for his work at Airfix which he is best known. He started in 1964 with box art for Airfix's Do 217 and his last work for them was the box art for the German heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen (1974). He went into marine paintings. Much of the Airfix artwork was destroyed but the lids of many millions of boxes remain He was interviewed by James May in James May's Top Toys, discussing the changing tastes in box art and the airbrushing out of bombs and explosions from his pictures. (en)
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  • Roy Cross (* 23. April 1924 in Southwark/London) ist ein britischer Marinemaler, der durch seine Coverillustration für die Bausätze von Airfix maßgeblich zum Image der Firma in den 1960er/1970er Jahren beitrug. Cross ist Mitglied der Royal Society of Marine Artists und der . (de)
  • Roy Cross (born 23 April 1924) RSMA is a British artist and aviation journalist best known as the painter of artwork used on Airfix kits from the 1960s. Born in Southwark, London and mainly self-taught, he learned his craft at the Camberwell School of Art and as a technical illustrator for training manuals for Fairey Aviation during the second world war. He progressed from there to producing advertising art for the aircraft industry and other companies. He illustrated for The Aeroplane and the Eagle comic. Much of the Airfix artwork was destroyed but the lids of many millions of boxes remain (en)
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  • Roy Cross (de)
  • Roy Cross (artist) (en)
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