Roy Cross (aviation and marine artist)

In 2012, after 25+ years, I took a new interest on modeling aircraft and bought a few Airfix 1/72 kits.
I remember having a huge interest in the cover art as a kid, but only now I could find out more about these artists. One of these is Roy Cross.

Roy Cross is best known as the artist behind the cover art designs for Airfix in the 1960s. Two books were published about his work as aviation illustrator:

Interestingly enough, another Roy (Roy Huxley) was the artist behind many of the early cover art designs of Airfix's then rival Matchbox. The two artists are members of the Guild of Aviation Artists in UK.
The next book is a superb cronology of Matchbox's kit designs: