Airfix

Type: Company

Name: Airfix

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Airfix salutes Dambusters 70th anniversary

Airfix has successfully launched two brand new Dambusters products.The first is a classic Airfix Avro Lancaster ‘Dambusters’ 1:72 set which sold out across the UK within days of launch.The Airfix Dambusters range launched in April this year, to coincide ... [Published Toyworld Magazine - May 15 2013]

Entities: Airfix, Frank Hornby, Operation Chastise

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

Review: AOC E2462VWH

Props to AOC for making an effort. It wasn't that long ago that pretty much every AOC panel out there looked like it was hewn from pressed plastic sweepings taken from the Airfix factory floor. They certainly looked cheap. The cheerful bit? Not so mu ... [Published TechRadar.com - May 13 2013]

Entities: Airfix, Boost, High-Definition Multimedia Interface

First reported May 05 2013 - Updated May 05 2013 - 1 reports

Airfix

Village event at National Memorial in Capel-le-Ferne will give grandstand view of the Folkestone Airshow

After the success of last year’s fantastic Make and Paint event at the National Memorial to the Few, model makers, Airfix will be helping to run another. This year’s event will be held on Saturday (8 June) as part of a wider village event that will also ... [Published Hawkinge Gazette - May 05 2013]

Entities: Airfix, Bob Foster, Battle of Britain

First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 1 reports

Things to do on the bank holiday

Come celebrate Gransnet's 2nd birthday and show us your best birthday cakes.Share your experiences and thoughts on vaginal dryness and the menopause to win a £200 JL voucher.Share your thoughts on the E.ON Rewards loyalty scheme to win win a £250 JL ... [Published Gransnet - May 01 2013]

Entities: Victoria Williams, Airfix, Board Game, Fasting, Feminism

First reported Apr 22 2013 - Updated Apr 22 2013 - 1 reports

Land Rover

Key Publishing Launches Classic Land Rover

Key Publishing has announced the launch of Classic Land Rover, a new monthly magazine for Series and classic Land Rover enthusiasts. Key Publishing is one of Europe’s leading publishers of specialist leisure magazines with brands such as FlyPast, Airliner ... [Published InPublishing - Apr 22 2013]

Entities: Land Rover, Publishing, Adrian Cox, Airfix, Cover Price

First reported Apr 21 2013 - Updated Apr 21 2013 - 1 reports

Epworth ‘Action Man’ loses his cancer battle

Footplate fantasies fulfilled by Jerry Lawrence.Tributes have flooded in following the death of a much-loved former teacher from Epworth.Jerry Lawrence, of West End Road, lost his two-year battle against cancer at home on Sunday, April 7, with his family ... [Published The Epworth Bells - Apr 21 2013]

Entities: Action, Cancer, Airfix, Tetley, Methodist Church

First reported Apr 19 2013 - Updated Apr 19 2013 - 3 reports

Royal Institute of British Architects

Hornby wins special award

HORNBY Hobbies Ltd, based in Margate, has scooped an award for its fundraising activities.More specifically, the Airfix brand at Hornby, has been a key supporter of the RAF Benevolent Fund, who gave out the award.KICKER: Darrell Burge from Airfix and ... [Published This is Kent - Apr 19 2013]

Entities: Airfix, Royal Institute of British Architects, Fundraising, Social Welfare

First reported Apr 19 2013 - Updated Apr 19 2013 - 1 reports

May issue of Collectors Gazette on sale today!

Rob BurmanCrikey this year is flying by. It only seems like five minutes ago we were planning our trip to the London Toy Fair at the beginning of 2013 and now we're already on the May issue... before you know it, we'll be sorting out the Christmas edition. ... [Published Collectors Club of Great Britain - Apr 19 2013]

Entities: Revell, Frank Hornby, Airfix, Meccano, Plastics

First reported Apr 15 2013 - Updated Apr 15 2013 - 1 reports

Superstar DJ's praise for filmmaker Morgan

A BUDDING Kilbarchan film-maker enjoyed a night out to remember when he met up with his latest collaboration, superstar DJ Paul Oakenfold.Lego-mad teenager Morgan Spence, met the global dance star at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Glasgow last week when he ... [Published Paisley Gazette - Apr 15 2013]

Entities: Paul Oakenfold, DJ Paul, Glasgow, Airfix, Radisson Blu

First reported Apr 12 2013 - Updated Apr 12 2013 - 1 reports

Airfix Australian and Russian soldiers

Airfix has recruited two new sets of 1:72-scale soldiers, hailing from very different WWII battlefields.The Australian Infantry earned a reputation for toughness in the jungle-fighting of South East Asia, while the Russian Infantry of the Red Army played ... [Published Toy Talk - Apr 12 2013]

Entities: Airfix, Red Army, World War II

First reported Apr 12 2013 - Updated Apr 12 2013 - 1 reports

RAF Merlin crew receives Airfix replica

The RAF Merlin HC3 visited Manston, Kent’s International Airport, last week as part of their ongoing training programme.While in Manston, Airfix (owned by Hornby Hobbies and based at Hornby’s HQ in Margate) caught up with 78 Squadron and presented them ... [Published Toyworld Magazine - Apr 12 2013]

Entities: Airfix, Replica, Squadron

First reported Jan 22 2013 - Updated Jan 22 2013 - 1 reports

Prince Harry makes war look more Top Gun than Wilfred Owen | Jonathan Jones

The horrors of war be gone – Captain Wales's heroic dash revives schoolboy fantasies of the glory of war Prince Harry scorns those stories in patriotic newspapers that have portrayed the Apache helicopter co-pilot gunner as a Spitfire ace lazing ... [Published Comment is free | guardian.co.uk - Jan 22 2013]

Entities: Prince Harry, Wilfred Owen, Jonathan Jones, Afghanistan

Quotes

...set of toy parts worth marketing and, having borrowed £5 from his meat business employer David Elliot, patented the invention on in January 1902 as "Improvements in Toy or Educational Devices for Children and Young People"

Google Doodle celebrates visionary toy maker Frank Hornby’s 150 birthday [Published The Independent - May 15 2013]

...The 'H' suffix on our review unit indicates an HDMI port and the absence of DVI connectivity, while the non- "H' model is precisely the opposite."

Review: AOC E2462VWH [Published TechRadar.com - May 13 2013]

"We've got some exciting things planned for the next couple of years including a "design a model" competition, so this is really just the beginning."

Hornby wins special award [Published This is Kent - Apr 19 2013]

He added: "I never imagined it would go as big as it has. It's definitely given me the confidence to expand."

Superstar DJ's praise for filmmaker Morgan [Published Paisley Gazette - Apr 15 2013]

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Review: AOC E2462VWH [Published TechRadar.com - May 13 2013]
Master class: The Toymaster guide [Published Toy News Online - May 09 2013]
Village event at National Memorial in Capel-le-... [Published Hawkinge Gazette - May 05 2013]
Reaching arty heights with Zarian Babjan [Published thestar.com.my - May 05 2013]
Things to do on the bank holiday [Published Gransnet - May 01 2013]
Key Publishing Launches Classic Land Rover [Published InPublishing - Apr 22 2013]
Epworth ‘Action Man’ loses his cancer battle [Published The Epworth Bells - Apr 21 2013]
Hornby wins special award [Published This is Kent - Apr 19 2013]
May issue of Collectors Gazette on sale today! [Published Collectors Club of Great Britain - Apr 19 2013]
Hornby awarded for extensive charity work [Published Toys 'n' Playthings - Apr 19 2013]
Airfix scoops corporate fundraising award [Published Toyworld Magazine - Apr 19 2013]
Superstar DJ's praise for filmmaker Morgan [Published Paisley Gazette - Apr 15 2013]
Airfix Australian and Russian soldiers [Published Toy Talk - Apr 12 2013]
RAF Merlin crew receives Airfix replica [Published Toyworld Magazine - Apr 12 2013]
Aviation History Takes Off Thanks to Davies Turner [Published PR.com Press Releases - Jan 31 2013]
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Prince Harry makes war look more Top Gun than W... [Published Comment is free \| guardian.co.uk - Jan 22 2013]
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Prince Harry makes war look more Top Gun than W... [Published Comment is free \| guardian.co.uk - Jan 22 2013] The horrors of war be gone – Captain Wales's heroic dash revives schoolboy fantasies of the glory of war Prince Harry scorns those stories in patriotic newspapers that have portrayed the Apache helicopter co-pilot gunner as a Spitfire ace lazing ...

Press Releases

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Aviation History Takes Off Thanks to Davies Turner [Published PR.com Press Releases - Jan 31 2013]