Airfix plots new models 'for the girls' as 60-year-old maker of toy planes and tanks targets new generation of female scientists. Kent-based Airfix wants to move away from 'masculine' war toys ...

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 ...

Airfix wants girls to model. We're not talking catwalks, but glue, paint and jet engines. Harry Wallop investigates how the venerable toy brand hopes to survive a few more decades ...

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.

Thousands of Airfix and other model kits uncovered in a house in South Shields are expected to make up to £6000 at an auction by Anderson and Garland on 18 July. Compiled over decades, the fine art ...

MODEL firm Airfix's future was in doubt yesterday after their parent company went into administration. Humbrol bosses blamed "severe cash-flow pressures" and a disruption in supplies from the main ...

Airfix has been bought by model train giant Hornby, which plans to rebuild the brand. But will today's Playstation generation even notice? Generations of school children grew up in the 50s and 60s ...

Iconic plastic plane firm Airfix was rescued today after Hornby struck a deal with administrators. Model train maker Hornby agreed to pay £2.6 million for Airfix, Humbrol Paints and Young Scientist.

One year, Welsh built every model in Airfix’s catalogue. Now his speciality is 1950s and 1960s US cars. “My favourite is a 1964 Cadillac Coupe de Ville,” he says, ...

Iconic model-maker name Airfix faces an uncertain future following parent firm Humbrol's entry into administration. Since 1949, generations of children have struggled over plastic kit parts and tubes ...

How your Airfix model could be a museum piece. For any overgrown Airfix enthusiasts who have clung on to their prized collections, it is an opportunity to dig them out of the loft, dust them down ...

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 ...