Toy company Airfix, famous for making models of toy planes and tanks, is targeting a new generation of female scientists by creating a new line for girls. For many the name of the company brings back ...

It is a toy forever associated with Spitfire planes and boys in short trousers getting glue on their fingers. But exactly 60 years after its first model aeroplane went on sale for two shillings at ...

The first day of the invasion of Normandy in World War II, immortalised in films such as Saving Private Ryan and The Longest Day, is the inspiration for British model-maker Kevin Nunn's 1/72 scale ...

Airfix models and their accompanying Humbrol paints are set to take off again as children's and modellers' favourites just three years after the company went bust. Now under the ownership of ...

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 ...

From Airfix planes to Hornby trains, we have a long-running relationship with models. Small, to scale, and often stunningly detailed, they are used in everything from architecture to blockbuster ...

Veterans are calling for Airfix to scrap 'sick' model showing a dilapidated bomb-blasted Afghan home BRIT toy brand Airfix is selling a model of an Afghan home reduced to rubble by air strikes — ...

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