Toy company Airfix, famous for making models of toy planes and tanks, is targeting a new generation of female scientists by creating a new line for girls. For many the name of the company brings back ...

The first day of the invasion of Normandy in World War II, immortalised in films such as Saving Private Ryan and The Longest Day, is the inspiration for British model-maker Kevin Nunn's 1/72 scale ...

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 ...

Airfix has gone into administration, prompting an outpouring of nostalgia for the kit models. For many, memories of assembling models of Spitfires and Lancaster bombers epitomise a lost childhood.

It is a toy forever associated with Spitfire planes and boys in short trousers getting glue on their fingers. But exactly 60 years after its first model aeroplane went on sale for two shillings at ...

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 ...

One of the most famous names in toys is back, after going bust. Airfix has been bought by model train giant Hornby, which plans to rebuild the brand. But will today's Playstation generation even ...

They were notoriously fiddly to glue together... and took hours to paint. But generations of children spent their precious pocket money on Airfix plastic scale model kits. And as the firm celebrates ...

I think I got my first Airfix kit for Christmas when I was seven or eight and it would have been a Spitfire or a Hurricane, definitely a Second World War fighter plane, and that is what got me going.

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 ...