Airfix

https://uk.airfix.com/

Airfix is a British model kit brand founded in 1939 by Hungarian-born businessman Nicholas Kove, originally to manufacture inflatable rubber toys before moving into injection-moulded plastic products. The company adopted plastic injection moulding in the late 1940s, released its first construction kit (a 1:72 scale Ferguson tractor) in 1949, and began mass-producing model kits for the hobby market from 1952 onward, making it the oldest UK manufacturer of scale plastic model kits. Airfix is best known for popularizing affordable, constant-scale plastic model kits, using standard scales such as 1:72 for aircraft, 1:76 for military vehicles and figures, and 1:600 for ships, which let collectors display related subjects together in accurate relative proportion. Its range grew to cover aircraft, ships, military vehicles, cars, railways, space subjects, and figures, with iconic ship subjects including HMS Victory and the Golden Hind, alongside famous aircraft kits like the Supermarine Spitfire. In the UK the brand name became so dominant that "Airfix" is still used generically to refer to any injection-moulded plastic model kit. The company changed ownership several times, being acquired by Humbrol in 1986 and then, following Humbrol's 2006 collapse, by Hornby plc in 2007, under which it continues to operate today as a leading brand in plastic scale modelling.

Kits

	Kit	Ship	Scale	Status
	HMS Victory A09252V	HMS Victory	1:180	Available
	HMS Shannon (Historical Ships series, #66 / #1285 / #01266-1)	HMS Shannon (1806)	—	Discontinued
	HMS Hood (A04202/A04202V, Vintage Classics)	HMS Hood	1:600	Available
No image	British Clipper Ship Cutty Sark (Vintage Classics, 09253)	Cutty Sark	1:130	Available
	Golden Hind (A09258V / A50046)	Golden Hind	1:72	Available