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Airfix is a British brand and former manufacturing company which produced injection-moulded plastic scale model kits. In the UK, the name 'Airfix' has become practically synonymous with plastic models of this type, "they became a sort of generic name for any plastic, injection-moulded model kit".
Airfix Magazine was the first British magazine dedicated to the hobby of plastic modelling. It was launched in 1960 in association with the model kit company Airfix, and ceased publication in 1993. Originally a small-format magazine, it increased in sized eventually to A4 format in January 1976. It covered various scale modelling subjects ...
Airfix Model World is a monthly magazine published in the United Kingdom by Key Publishing since 2010, produced under licence from Airfix. [2] It covers the hobby of plastic modelmaking , particularly model aircraft, but also including model cars, ships, sci-fi/spacecraft, armoured vehicles and figures. [ 3 ]
Airfix – British plastic car and airplane kits. Some built plastic HO military and other toys. Almost Real; Aluminum Metal Toys (AMT) – American promotional model and kit company dating from 1948. Amalgam Collection - Artisan hand-made 1:8 scale model cars. Headquartered in Bristol, England.
Plastic Model & Tool Catalog 2015 , Magazine Daichi, April 2015; Lune, Peter van. "FROG Penguin plastic scale model kits 1936 - 1950". Zwolle, The Netherlands, 2017, published by author ISBN 978-90-9030180-8
Nicholas Kove (born Miklós Klein 1891 in Anarcs, Szabolcs County, Kingdom of Hungary – died 17 March 1958 in London) was a Hungarian-British businessman best known for founding the Airfix plastic model kit company.
The residual tooling of the Airfix company was taken over by Humbrol in 1986, but the company went down in August 2006. [2] Hornby then acquired the Humbrol and Airfix brand names. Dapol Model Railways have subsequently re-introduced the Kitmaster name for their range of plastic construction kits and their "completely knocked down" range of ...
The catalogue of 1991 shows a radical downsizing of products, bringing the number of kits to 290. 100 of these were aeroplanes (22 in 1:48 scale and 75 in 1:72 scale). At the end of 1991 CEO Dino Coppola left the company with some employees to found the "CDC-Collector Armour Ltd.", a company specializing in the production of die cast cars ...