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.

Airfix - the firm whose scale models have fascinated and frustrated boys for more than 50 years - has gone into administration.

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.

In the big list of toys you were expecting to make a comeback, Airfix is down there with sticks and hoops, but the toys that take up the dining table are staging a comeback.

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.

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 ...

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 model-maker name Airfix faces an uncertain future following parent firm Humbrol's entry into administration. Since 1949, generations of children have struggled over plastic kit parts and tubes ...

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

The toy maker is launching its KitStarter crowd-funding platform, which will allow Airfix fans to decide which models kits the 76-year-old company owned by Hornby redevelops.

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 ...

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 ...