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    Sixty Years of Airfix Models

    By Jeremy Brook

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    The best-known and most important manufacturer of plastic model kits in the UK, Airfix has been at the forefront of the industry since 1955 when the first Airfix aircraft kit appeared in UK branches of Woolworth's. The kits were made to a constant scale and covered a wide variety of subjects, from aircraft to birds and from tanks to dinosaurs. In 1981 the famous London-based company closed down and only the kits survived intact. For the next twenty-five years Airfix was run by Palitoy and later Humbrol, but suffered from a lack of investment. In 2006, Hornby Hobbies Ltd, the train and Scalextric manufacturer, bought the ailing company and transformed it. Money and resources were ploughed into the range, and today Airfix releases around twenty new kits per year, designed to an incredibly high standard. The old kits of the 1950s and 1960s are gradually being replaced by new state-of-the-art tooling, all bearing that most prestigious name - Airfix. Published to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of the first Airfix aircraft kit, Sixty Years of Airfix Models, tells the full story, year by year, of the company and its products. Illustrated throughout with colour photographs.of kits, box art and completed models.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCrowood
    Release dateJun 30, 2015
    ISBN9781847979766
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    Sixty Years of Airfix Models
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    Jeremy Brook

    Jeremy Brook was born in 1950 and made his first Airfix kit about eight years later. Passionate about Airfix, he lives in Wiltshire where he runs the Airfix Collectors' Club and produces the Club's journal, Constant Scale. Jeremy Brook is also Honorary Archivist for Airfix at Hornby Hobbies Ltd. In 2015 he wrote his first book on Airfix, "60 Years of Airfix Models", about the world famous plastic construction kits.

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