Well-known manufacturers include Airfix ... the plastic kit hobby or became converted during long periods spent at home during the Covid-19 pandemic. Having a good model store nearby is a great ...

Roy Cross, 90, of Kent, was the principal artist for Airfix during the Sixties and Seventies at the peak of the model kits' popularity ... the boxes of the popular plastic scale models - which ...

A man has supersized his childhood hobby of making model Airfix kits by buying a full ... now set you back around £3m. A 1:24-scale plastic kit will cost you around £100 - plus glue and paints.

Model maker Airfix is looking to the future of its business - 2,400 years into the future to be precise. The company, famous for its fiddly plastic reproductions of ... Airfix said on its website. An ...

1953 - All-time Airfix best-seller released - the "two-bob [two shilling]" Spitfire kit, which was a 1/72 scale replica 21-part bagged model in light blue plastic, with instructions 1960-1970 ...

Ever felt melancholic thinking about the Airfix-type model kits you used to ... who is the guy behind Full Size Kits, a company offering lifelike-size plastic motorcycle kits which can be ...

Fans of Airfix models will be able to step ... which will allow model-building fans to decide which kits the 76-year-old company re-releases from its archives. Hornby chief executive Richard ...

So powerful in fact that by the 1960s, when sales were at their peak, Airfix was shifting more than 350,000 injection-moulded plastic scale model kits of the aircraft per annum. That’s four times as ...