One of the most famous names in toys is back, after going bust. Airfix has been bought by model train giant Hornby, which plans to rebuild the brand. But will today's Playstation generation even ...

The future of Airfix is looking as fragile as one of its model Spitfires after its parent company went into administration. The plastic kits of Lancaster bombers and Hurricanes have been painstakingly ...

In 2021, Red Kite published a collection of Roy Huxley's Matchbox paintings An artist has saluted two painters who fired generations of youthful imaginations by creating art for Matchbox and Airfix ...

Avi-8 has launched a new collection of special edition timepieces in collaboration with Airfix, the UK’s oldest manufacturer of scale model kits. If, like me, you have fond memories of making Airfix ...

Airfix also bought out construction kit rivals Meccano-Triang under his stewardship. The company, founded in 1939 by another Jewish refugee, Hungary-born Nicholas Kove, has become synonymous with ...

Britain's last model-maker, Airfix, today went out of business as its parent manufacturer, Humbrol, called in the administrators. Following an emergency review of Humbrol, based in Hull, ...

They were notoriously fiddly to glue together... and took hours to paint. But generations of children spent their precious pocket money on Airfix plastic scale model kits. And as the firm celebrates ...

The Margate headquarters includes a visitor centre where modellers young and old can admire finished Airfix and Pocher models. That’s impressive enough, but I was fortunate enough to be given a tour ...

Airfix - the firm whose scale models have fascinated and frustrated boys for more than 50 years - has gone into administration. Its warships, tanks and planes have proved popular through the decades ...

An artist has saluted two painters who fired generations of youthful imaginations by creating art for Matchbox and Airfix model kit boxes. Mark Postlethwaite tipped his wings in tribute following the ...