A long time ago, in a retail store not that far away, there sat an Airfix model of the Star Wars Imperial Star Destroyer. And ...

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 ...

The challenge of turning hundreds of tiny plastic pieces into a spitfire, tank or classic car model has captivated children for decades. And the man they have to thank is German-born Ralph Mr Ehrmann, ...

But although we’ve all heard of Airfix, hands up anyone who knows where the company is based? No, not Hull: that plant closed in 2008. In fact, it’s in Margate, on the Kent coast. These days, Airfix ...

NEW jobs should be steaming into part of the county after model giant Hornby snapped up the Airfix kit business. Lovers of Airfix models will be delighted by the Margate firm’s decision to buy the ...

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 ...

Tim was an officer in the RAF Regiment, in charge of one of the Rapier surface-to-air missile teams assigned to protect allied airfields in Germany during the dying days of the Cold War. After a few ...

An artist has saluted two painters who fired generations of youthful imaginations by creating art for Matchbox and Airfix model kit boxes. Mark Postlethwaite tipped his wings in tribute following the ...

A former MP has called on model-kit company Airfix to withdraw a “tasteless” toy of a bombed Afghan house. Ex-Canterbury MP Julian Brazier, who sat on the Commons Defence Select Committee for nine ...