Prisoners are fuming after being told they can’t build model aeroplanes in jail - in case they sniff the glue. Lags at HMP Isle of Wight have complained directly to the governor after being told they ...

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, bought the fibreglass replica ...

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 activities ...

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 ...

Back in my era boys fell into two categories - those whose fingers were glue-encrusted from building Airfix model planes and those who were into bolting and unbolting Meccano. It's the Meccano brigade ...

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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.

Before it can fly again, each part of the four-engine plane needs to be stripped-down and checked It might just be the largest aircraft model kit in the world, but needs no small tubes of glue and is ...

An ’assembly sheet’ is vital to ensure that low-carbon technologies work together in an optimised way, says Dr Geoff Williams of Thorn Lighting When I was a boy, I painstakingly brought Airfix model ...

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 ...