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 ...

Thousands of Airfix and other model kits are expected to fetch up to £6,000 at auction in Newcastle. The collection, discovered in a house in South Shields in South Tyneside, is thought to be the ...

An Airfix collection thought to be one of the largest of its kind ever sold went for £8,800 at a Newcastle auction. The plastic scale model kits were discovered still in their original packaging at a ...

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 ...

This article was taken from the June 2013 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on ...

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, ...

Veterans are calling for Airfix to scrap 'sick' model showing a dilapidated bomb-blasted Afghan home BRIT toy brand Airfix is selling a model of an Afghan home reduced to rubble by air strikes — ...

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 ...

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 ...