1953 - All-time Airfix best-seller released - the "two-bob [two shilling]" Spitfire kit, which was a 1/72 scale replica ...

Unmade Airfix kits are a model collection. 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 ...

Product Features. Part of the Airfix Classic Kit Range, the 1:72 scale is a smaller scale and is perfect for those models where you want a more simple and faster construction.

Homework, Dyer’s 19th book, is therefore not just an account of his childhood and adolescence but an account of his childhood ...

Airfix had actually been going for 10 years, selling inflatable rubbber toys, when the first construction kit - a Ferguson Model T-20 tractor - hit the high street in 1949.

We head to Airfix HQ to see how the kits are created. ... peace on earth and an Airfix kit to all men. A spot of model-making on the big day is the perfect excuse to duck out of the Queen’s speech.

During the 1970s Airfix was selling 20 million kits a year. In the 1980s the toys began to decline and the firm was bought by General Mills, who later sold it to Borden.

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 ...

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, ...

Airfix Dogfighter puts you in the role of a kid's airplane model come to life. You'll fly around the house (and even stray outside from time to time) battling against your enemies in a classic ...