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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Unlike the average Airfix kit, it took far more than the deft application of glue to get this model plane just right. But after more than 24,000 man-hours of effort the magnificent result is the ...

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 ...

Roy Cross, artist who brought excitement to Airfix boxes in the golden age of modelling – obituary He made children believe ‘you’re in that scene; it isn’t little bits of plastic, it’s a real ...

The models were a phenomenon with young boys and Airfix sold 350,000 model Spitfires, 80,000 Hurricanes and 60,000 Lancasters a year during its 1960s peak. Airfix’s demise came in the 1970s after the ...

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 — ...

THIS Lancaster bomber looks just like a model plane waiting to be glued together as it is being carefully restored in a hanger. The huge WWII aircraft is being taken to pieces as part of a ten year ...