Airfix plots new models 'for the girls' as 60-year-old maker of toy planes and tanks targets new generation of female scientists. Kent-based Airfix wants to move away from 'masculine' war toys ...

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 ...

Airfix, model-maker to the nation, comes to a sticky end. ... stick a banger in the tanks on Bonfire Night or tie your planes to a tree in the garden and shoot at it with an air rifle." ...

Airfix kits return to the shelves, ... Generations of school children grew up in the 50s and 60s gluing and painting Airfix model planes, ... 7 - Landing Craft LCM3 & Sherman Tank joint kit. 8 - ...

Airfix specialised in model planes, ships and tanks of World War II Thousands of Airfix and other model kits are expected to fetch up to £6,000 at auction in Newcastle. The collection, discovered ...

Model-maker Airfix faced the end of its life today after its parent company collapsed with huge ... 80,000 Hurricanes and 60,000 Lancasters were sold a year. The firm also made tanks, warships, ...

Airfix specialised in model planes, ships and tanks of World War II An Airfix collection thought to be one of the largest of its kind ever sold went for £8,800 at a Newcastle auction.

But generations of children spent their precious pocket money on Airfix plastic scale model kits. ... Landing Craft LCM3 and Sherman Tank joint kit. 8. Heinkel 111 bomber 9. 1911 Rolls-Royce car 10.

Airfix specialised in model planes, ships and tanks of World War II Thousands of Airfix and other model kits are expected to fetch up to £6,000 at auction in Newcastle.