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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 decades ...

MODEL-MAKER Airfix faced the end of its life today after its parent company collapsed with huge debts. Airfix's plastic kits of Spitfires, Hurricanes and Lancaster bombers have been painstakingly ...

Airfix specialised in model planes, ships and tanks of World War II Thousands of Airfix and other model kits are expected to fetch up to £6,000 at auction in Newcastle. The collection, discovered in a ...

In 2021, Red Kite published a collection of Roy Huxley's Matchbox paintings An artist has saluted two painters who fired generations of youthful imaginations by creating art for Matchbox and Airfix ...

The imaginations of several generations of schoolboys were inspired by Airfix kits but the hobby has been shot down by computer gaming The engine is on fire, the nose is pointing straight down and, ...

Model maker Airfix is looking to the future of its business - 2,400 years into the future to be precise. The company, famous for its fiddly plastic reproductions of World War II planes, tanks and ...

The artist whose iconic work adorned Airfix model aeroplane boxes has put the final batch of his orginal sketches and drawings up for sale for £20,000. Roy Cross, 90, of Kent, was the principal artist ...