Sixty Years of Airfix Models

by Jeremy Brook

Airfix has been at the forefront of the model 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1847979750
• ISBN13: 9781847979759
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Crowood Press (UK)
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.6" x 11.7"