My Airfix highlights so far include being allowed to accompany our Lead Researcher on several aircraft scanning sorties in support of future new tooling projects and the opportunity to see how our current team of Product Designers turn subject suggestions into scale modelling reality.
We are lucky to have some very clever people working with us. I started my working life at the Swansea plant aged 16, it was located on the Fforestfach Industrial Estate and I was employed as a management trainee, a three-year programme, with studies in the evening at a local college.
It was a very intensive course, I spent time in every part of the business — toolroom, sales, accounts, computers, all of the production process, injection moulding, die-casting, maintenance engineering, design, electrostatic painting, vacuum metallising, distribution — every aspect of the business. One week I would be out selling, the next driving a forklift truck, then setting a mould, refurbishing a mould, designing a mould, preparing accounts, counting out wages, launching new products — if the company did it — I did it.
Little did I know all these years later that I would be the CEO of Hornby and watch on with pride as our skilled designers bring dreams alive. I joined the Airfix team almost two years ago having previously worked in the Purchasing department here for four years. My role varies daily from helping plan future ranges, catalogues, and more recently starting the Airfix Club again to loading vans going out on the road to several different shows.
After ordering model Spitfires for many years it was amazing to get up close and personal with a real one. Its great to see such keen young and a few older modellers in the making! Outside of the office I am a Mum to year-old son Harvey who loves my job as he wants to be a pilot one day. I am also a little bit of an adrenaline junkie on the weekends racing a quad bike!
Adam French Product Designer Hello, my name is Adam French and you could say I am classed as a newbie, having joined last November and one of the most recent members to join the talented Airfix Team. I am a Product Designer for Airfix but specifically on Quickbuild development. My role as a designer is to drive new projects from concepts right through to production handover. These projects are unique in individual design and offer further development into the direction of Quickbuild design and expands what Airfix can do with future products.
However, for the last few years I have been part of the Airfix team exclusively. I really enjoy the challenges of the design work and try to keep the graphics both fresh and yet traditional. It really does not feel that long though, time has gone quickly! I always feel very fortunate working here, not only because of the history of the brand but also for the brilliant people I get to work with.
One of my first projects here is still one of my favourites, the Mary Rose was a simple starter kit project but it was great getting to meet some of the team behind raising the ship from the sea bed and learning so much about its design and history during the research phase.
Another project that stands out to me is the B It was fascinating to research in detail how all the elements inside the fuselage came together, there was so much packed into that aircraft. Richard Petts Technical Illustrator and the man responsible for these wonderful illustrations Hello, my name is Richard Petts, I am a Technical Illustrator and been working at Hornby Hobbies for 13 years. During this time, I have been producing the instruction booklets for our Airfix kits that are designed by our talented team of Product Designers.
This is done by taking a CAD file and manipulating it in a 3D programme before doing the final stages in a desk top publishing programme. I really enjoy building the first shots as I create the step by step illustrations at the same time. I must have built so many super models and it would be impossible to pick a favourite. I prefer the scale, but I love the extreme amount of amazing detail in our range, especially the radial engine in the hellcat.
In my spare time I love to draw and paint, particularly wildlife in pastels. I also commission outside artworkers to do decal scheme artwork and box illustrations. In addition, I liaise with our manufacturer in India, making sure they have everything they need for production and I check the quality of preproduction and production samples. I derive enormous satisfaction and pride from leading a development team that successfully strives to constantly improve Airfix kits and the experience of building them.
I enquired about a job at the Telford Model Show and sometime later I became an Airfix Product Designer while being a keen scale modeller for the past 10 years. One of the great perks of the job is that outside work I get to build models that are in development and we then take them to model shows to show to the community. As well as designing new model kits myself, I also work with the other designers to help research, offer advice and guidance on their projects and help with engineering the new injection moulds that produce the new kits, to make sure each model is developed to the same standard.
I have been at Hornby in the Airfix team for 11 years, but have been building model kits for many more! During that time, I have been on some amazing research trips and met some fantastic experts and enthusiasts that have helped us make some great models. Our story begins in , London. With the world on the cusp of war, Hungarian refugee Nicholas Kove created the first iteration of Airfix, a company which at the time manufactured rubber inflated toys.
Thus, Airfix was born! Airfix is the oldest UK manufacturer of scale plastic model kits and has been producing kits for the mass market since Although you might know us best for our iconic aircraft models, the last few years have been a journey of discovery and exploration for us in terms of branching out into other products. Perhaps one of our most exciting ventures has been the development of the Quickbuild brand, a range of brick-based models with no glue or paint needed! Sign up to the Airfix UK newsletter for access to exclusive news, the latest plastic figure launches, competitions and much more!
Menu Airfix Logo Home Shop. Gift Sets. A plastic model is often simply referred to as "an Airfix kit" even if made by another manufacturer. Airfix is the oldest UK manufacturer of plastic scale model kits and has been producing kits for the mass market since Now under the ownership of Hornby Hobbies Ltd, the Airfix brand goes from strength to strength whilst remaining one of the world's most recognisable and best-loved toy brands.
Brands under the Hornby Hobbies Ltd umbrella. This site lists the contents of all the Airfix catalogues from to the present day. Each kit listed on Vintage Airfix has the catalogue, or patent, number that the kit appears as and which catalogue it appeared in. Vintage Airfix is compiled and owned by an Airfix enthusiast for Airfix enthusiasts worldwide to help them rekindle that childhood memory and learn a little bit more about Airfix and the kits they've produced over the years.
Vintage Airfix, dedicated to Airfix fans. Just some of the kits listed Imports and exports fell in April but the 2. But the deficit with Germany widened markedly. The positions are now reversed," said Hopley. Obviously, muted and stuttering global growth is a problem, especially persistent weak domestic demand in the eurozone.
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