Looking like the largest Airfix model you could possibly imagine, parts of a World War Two Lancaster bomber are laid-out in a hangar waiting to be assembled. But this is not a toy. The pieces of wing, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Model maker Hornby has launched an in-house crowdfunding platform with the aim of relaunching old lines of products. The historic company, currently undergoing a move from its site in Margate to ...

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 ...

One of the most famous names in toys is back, after going bust. Airfix has been bought by model train giant Hornby, which plans to rebuild the brand. But will today's Playstation generation even ...

Whether you love painting Napoleonic soldiers, recreating Game of Thrones fantasy figures or building WW2 Airfix fighter ...

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 ...