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 ...

The first day of the invasion of Normandy in World War II, immortalised in films such as Saving Private Ryan and The Longest Day, is the inspiration for British model-maker Kevin Nunn's 1/72 scale ...

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 ...

Hornby, which has struggled with supply-chain problems, is expected to report its first annual pre-tax profits in three years (Getty) For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your ...

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 ...

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 ...

An Airfix collection thought to be one of the largest of its kind ever sold went for £8,800 at a Newcastle auction. The plastic scale model kits were discovered still in their original packaging at a ...