Airfix kits return to the shelves, though its makers' biggest challenge is to get young people's attention.

Airfix models and their accompanying Humbrol paints are set to take off again as children's and modellers' favourites just three years after the company went bust.

Avi-8 has launched a new collection of special edition timepieces in collaboration with Airfix, the UK’s oldest manufacturer of scale model kits. If, like me, you have fond memories of making Airfix ...

The Royal Airforce Museum, London, is appealing to members of the public to contribute their Airfix models to complete an exhibition of the popular toy series.

Christmas: peace on earth and an Airfix kit to all men. A spot of model-making on the big day is the perfect excuse to duck out of the Queen’s speech. After all, you can’t let the glue go off ...

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 ...

MODEL firm Airfix's future was in doubt yesterday after their parent company went into administration.

Airfix wants girls to model. We're not talking catwalks, but glue, paint and jet engines. Harry Wallop investigates how the venerable toy brand hopes to survive a few more decades ...

Seventy years of Airfix: Kids' favourite model kits are still flying off the shelves By Mirror.co.uk 00:00, 16 Aug 2009 Updated 16:50, 28 Jan 2012 ...

Airfix has Top Gear's James May to thank for a surge in sales. An extra 25,000 of its Spitfire kits flew off the shelves after the presenter made a full-sized version of the plane in his BBC2 Toy ...

Perhaps it is not surprising to find Airfix shot down in flames by a generation for whom the word dope has a meaning entirely distinct from the sticky substance that their forebears manipulated ...

Iconic plastic plane firm Airfix was rescued today after Hornby struck a deal with administrators. Model train maker Hornby agreed to pay £2.6 million for Airfix, Humbrol Paints and Young Scientist.