An artist has saluted two painters who fired generations of youthful imaginations by creating art for Matchbox and Airfix ...

A collection of more than 1,200 model kits - many of them vintage Airfix - are to be sold today in the biggest auction of its kind. The vintage plastic and metal models are expected to fetch in ...

Hornby Plc, the U.K. maker of model trains, said sales of its Airfix model kits doubled after a British Broadcasting Corp. television program featured a life-size model of a Supermarine Spitfire ...

Model-making toy boxes depicting images from ... Dublin artist Tadhg McGrath has produced his own take on the well-known Airfix modelling kits, with participants from the region's violent past ...

Hornby will take control of the Airfix model kit company from administrators at Airfix's parent firm Humbrol. Humbrol went into administration in the summer, and the deal also includes the firm's ...

Airfix was founded in 1939 by Nicholas Kove, a Hungarian-born businessman, and initially made inflatable toys. Its first model kit was a Ferguson tractor sold through Woolworths in 1949.

A man has supersized his childhood hobby of making model Airfix kits by buying a full size Spitfire - that he keeps in his back garden. Aviation worker Ian Fox, 55, bought the fibreglass replica ...

The kits will go under the hammer at Anderson and Garland Auctioneers on Wednesday 18 July. John Anderson from the auctioneers, said: "This is an unusually large collection of Airfix model kits.

Read our privacy notice. Fans of Airfix models will be able to step back in time and order kits of classic, wartime aircraft and garden birds in a novel, crowd-funding initiative by Hornby.

NEW jobs should be steaming into part of the county after model giant Hornby snapped up the Airfix kit business. Lovers of Airfix models will be delighted by the Margate firm’s decision to buy ...