His paintings then adorned the boxes of the popular plastic scale models - which were loved ... the Sixties and Seventies. 1970s: Airfix is selling 20million kits a year 1980s: The toys begin ...

Having become the Airfix's executive director, he suggested they start making modelling kits using the then new plastic polystyrene material, imported from America. The models, which included ...

Benefits of Scale Modeling Model building teaches life skills ... or mechanic who hasn’t built one. “I got the Airfix A Bit’ O Lace kit for Christmas (we here in Finland get our presents ...

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 ...

Technology has made most modern kits easier to assemble ... Well-known manufacturers include Airfix, Faller, Revell, Italeri and Tamiya. There are models or everything from the USS Enterprise ...

Model Mania will take place on Sunday, February 27, when hangars will be filled with large models nestled amongst the real aircraft. Visitors will be treated to hands-on Airfix model-making ...

“The well-known brand Airfix ... s student model makers and their families to the day, and along with everyone else they are all are guaranteed a friendly welcome at the largest scale model ...

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 ...

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.

where she will stay temporarily Hornby owns brands including Hornby model railways, Scalextric, Humbrol and Airfix - which makes exactly the same kit version of the classic British jet aircraft.