Kent-based toy firm Airfix has revealed it is to launch a new range of models aimed at girls to encourage a new generation of female scientists from an early age.

Fans of Airfix models will be able to step back in time and order kits of classic, wartime aircraft and garden birds in a novel, crowd-funding initiative by Hornby.

Unmade Airfix kits are a model collection Thousands of Airfix and other model kits uncovered in a house in South Shields are expected to make up to £6000 at an auction by Anderson and Garland on 18 ...

Airfix - the firm whose scale models have fascinated and frustrated boys for more than 50 years - has gone into administration. With unashamed nostalgia, one writer laments the end of the firm ...

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 ...

Hornby Plc, the U.K. maker of model trains, said sales of its Airfix model kits doubled after a British Broadcasting Corp. television program featured a life-size model of a Supermarine Spitfire ...

Airfix, provider of plastic aircraft kits to generations of schoolboys, has been grounded by a combination of debt and supply chain failure. Its parent, Humbrol, is understood to have debts of ...

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 train maker Hornby is to buy fellow UK collectibles business Airfix for £2.6m, as it unveils a drop in profits.

A collection of Airfix models, thought to be the largest assortment of its kind ever sold, could fetch £6,000 at auction.