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IF YOU have thrown away your old Hot Wheels cars, Cabbage Patch dolls and Tamagotchis, you may well be kicking yourselves.

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By Debbie Luxon An ex-soldier who once guarded . Recommended from our partners The post Airfix: Vet Says Model Planes Saved Him From Suicide appeared first on Zenger News.

Ralph Ehrmann, who died earlier this month, was the firms boss from the late 1950s until the 1970s, after training as a navigator in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.

A devoted grandad spent three-and-a-half years building a Spitfire replica for his grandson in his shed.

The model train company, which also makes Scalextric and Airfix, plunged 13.8% on news it would make a modest loss for the year to March

Warhammer achieves record sales of £200m in half-year but says figures for US are flat

Police found bone fragments belonging to Alfred Milne and Eric Stubbs who died after their RAF Mosquito crashed south of Middlesbrough in 1944 - five miles from Kenneth Wards home.

You might think the days of spending the christmas holidays building a model plane are over, but the classic hobby is still alive. lockdowns and social media have fuelled a boom in sales, as john maguire reports. before you build a model aeroplane, the kit you use is built here in a factory in east sussex. it marks a return to uk production. molten plastic is pumped into a high—pressure press which contains an intricately detailed mould. what comes out and are then checked by eye are the frame...

Into a high—pressure press which contains an intricately detailed mould. what comes out, and are then checked by eye, are the frames known as sprews. they hold the parts ready to be removed and assembled. this is the 1:24 scale mk9 super marine spitfire — a new kit created by airfix and in painstaking detail. the spitfires were renowned for being incredibly well made. so some aircraft, this kind of effect of the wind is really pronounced. but actually, for spitfires, especially when they wer...