What If Kit Box Art - Part 4

From Matteline 1967, another collection of 'What If' box art designs for kits that never were - but certainly should have been. This is Part 4.

Box tops include Firefox from the Clint Eastwood movie. Poseidon from The Poseidon Adventure, which is actually the original Queen Mary ocean liner. 

The Disney version of the Nautilus from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Then on to Alien, Quatermass, a Dalek from Doctor Who, a Triffid from The Day of the Triffids - Glows in the Dark !, Cocoon spaceship, and wrapping up with a Dogfight Double of the Flash Gordon spaceship battling one of Emperor Ming's ships. Finally a portrait of Roy Cross, the great Airfix box artist.

All great. What a pity none of these were ever produced.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6yo8S1DOho&t=24s

If you really want a model of the Poseidon, Revell did a 1/570th scale kit, which is pretty close to the 1/600th that Airfix used for most of their modern naval and merchant vessels. 

There were also a couple of small scale die-cast models, by Dinky in the 1930s, and Tri-ang Minic Ships in the 1950s.

Paul Adams from New Zealand