A man has supersized his childhood hobby of making model Airfix kits by buying a full size Spitfire - that he keeps in his back garden. Aviation worker Ian Fox, 55, bought the fibreglass replica ...

Heartworms, AKA Jojo Orme, has linked up with Airfix to produce a limited edition set of Spitfire models as merchandise. The collaboration is the first between Airfix and a musician, and the models ...

Now available for pre-order, Hornby has added the 1:24 scale Supermarine Spitfire Mk.VIII to the 2024 Airfix range, the first ever variant in this scale.

Heartworms has announced a collaboration with Airfix, to launch the first ever artist-inspired starter kit.

James May gets a class of schoolchildren to help him build a life-size Airfix model of a Spitfire.

Airfix turns to crowd-funding model to revive archive designs like WW2 Spitfire Kitstarter website will let fans decide what will be reintroduced ...

It has helped win over some younger customers. Mr Proctor-Blain was speaking as the company celebrates the 60th anniversary of its first model aeroplane to hit the shops: the Airfix Spitfire BT-K.

Of course, aircraft dominate (the Supermarine Spitfire is easily Airfix’s biggest-selling model), but among the Avro Vulcans, Sopwith Camels and Messerschmitt Bf 109s, I spy neat rows of cars ...

In the mid 1970s larger scale models of the Spitfire, Hurricane and Harrier jump-jet were introduced. Airfix went into receivership in January 1981 as modelling became less popular.

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 ...