Aircraft painting

[Walkingthedog]

No not painting an aircraft but a painting of an aircraft.

At the beginning of the month the Guild of Aviation Artists did an sale where you paid £35 and received an original A5 size painting. You didn’t know what you were getting until it arrived.

This arrived the other day. Very nice.



I hadn’t heard of the artist so looked him up. Turns out he painted all the box illustrations on the Matchbox plastic kits.

[RogerB]

Indeed - very nice. Would you mind if I sent that over to Hornby? Or do you want to contact them? No doubt they will be fully aware who the artist is but just in case. R-

[Walkingthedog]

Is Matchbox part of Hornby?

I just thought it was interesting to get an original painting from such a well known artist. I hadn’t heard of him but he is pretty famous according to Google etc.

[RogerB]

No it isn’t- I just thought it might be a nice tie up. R-

[Walkingthedog]

OK. Yes feel free to send it to Hornby, thanks Roger.

[RogerB]

No problem. I’m just going to roll the ball in and see what happens. Can you tell me the name of the artist? R-

[Walkingthedog]

Of course Roy Huxley. I have his address so will write to him and thank him.

[RogerB]