Tamiya box art medium(s)

[Saito]

Does anybody know what medium (or mediums) Tamiya artist used in their box art?  Is it oils, acylic, water color, markers, etc. or a combination of several mediums?  Their art is simply fantastic.

[DeeMiller]

They used copiers, they're Japanese remember?[]

 

Grtz Dee

[Boxart]

Not sure what the originals were but I am making reporductions at http://www.tamiyaboxart.co.uk

[minijosh]

I don't understand the question. Did I miss the  meaning?

[T.C~Tamiya]

I'd say they were painted with a combination of airbrush and paint brush, probably in acrylics, that's only a guess though.

[tarznatz]

aahhh, Mr Boxart, one day I'll be ordering a bunch of those prints for my display area! One day....  ; )

[kontemax]

Hi,

I'm a graphic advertiser and I often observed the marvelous works done by Tamiya's artists.

Tecniques are differents, maybe different artists, and I found these characteristics.

Some cars are designed starting from a pictures of the model or the real car (often used with touring and rally models). Some other cars are designed simply observing the model. You can note this by not really exact perspective and proportions (as example the Boomerang, wrong perspective of the front arms, the body and the roof). Anyway it's always a very good job.

Then they often painted on a rough surface like a cardboard or a canvas. I think they used acrylic or waterbased colors, not transparent ones like inks ecoline. They worked with different layers superimposed, from light to dark. Often there aren't shading offs, but the shadows are created with different color areas.

Some boxes has made with mixed techniques. Over the paintwork has been used the airbrush to finish with some light touches, for example a strange orange/red light from the bottom on the tires.

I don't own all boxes so more technique could been used.

Max

[Odd-N]

They used copiers, they're Japanese remember?[]

 

Grtz Dee

[][]Nice one!!