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An artist has saluted two painters who fired generations of youthful imaginations by creating art for Matchbox and Airfix ...
Toy company Airfix, famous for making models of toy planes and tanks ... and released a range of kits to make birds and former Queens of England in the late 1970s, to little success.
Airfix Dogfighter puts you in the role of a ... From time to time you'll be given a mission to retrieve a new model kit and a set of blueprints. These, like all the other power ups in the game ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
For any overgrown Airfix enthusiasts who have ... requests it has made are for: the first kit of a Ferguson tractor; its first Spitfire; models from its historical figures range, which included ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...