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Welcome to the Airfix Page at CollectingFriends.com, where we seek to bring you all the latest news about this iconic British brand.

Arthur Ward, aka Kitbasher Kitbasher here with some exciting news! CF recently collaborated with Airfix and James May on the latter’s forthcoming TV series, James May's Toy Stories, due to air over Christmas. OK, collaborating might be over-egging it a bit, but I was due to appear in an episode dedicated to Airfix and was on set with Airfix’s Tony Snowden and Darryl Burge. You can read more in a new article due for publication on CF shortly; in the meantime, here are a few pics taken during filming…

Watch the Airfix Mosquito video Airfix 1:24 scale Mosquito assembly… click the image to watch the video!

Pics taken during filming of James May’s Toy Stories

One for the photo album. From left to right: Airfix’s Trevor Snowden and Darrelll Burge; star of the show, James May; Collecting Friend’s John Mattingley; Darrell’s son Martin; and Kitbasher (proudly wearing his enamel ‘Maggie’ badge).

One of James' features on the programme involved the construction of a magnificent 1:1 scale Spitfire.

James May's 1:1 scale BTX exits hangar one

The huge doors of one of Cosford’s Belfast Hangars slide open… revealing James and his team of young helpers emerging from clouds of dry ice and towing the biggest Spitfire model I’ve ever seen!

Airfix articles on CF

Christmas Competition – Arthur Ward on Roy Cross
Antiques Roadshow – Arthur Ward
Plastic Wonder! – Arthur Ward
A heads-up on Airfix headers – Arthur Ward
Magic Bus! – Arthur Ward
A BTK for the 21st Century
The Airfix Box Art Phenomenon – Arthur Ward
Airfix and I – Jeremy Brook
The vintage years of Airfix box art – Arthur Ward
A question of scale – Peter Allen
Toytime memories – Arthur Ward
The man who owns Silver City Airways reveals all – Arthur Ward
Airfix Box Top Roughs – IL-28. ‘The Soviet Canberra’ – Arthur Ward
Mat Irvine’s Arfix Favourites – Mat Irvine
More Airfix box art and why not! – Arthur Ward
The Airfix Nimrod takes to the air at last – Arthur Ward
Airfix Box Art Bonanza – Arthur Ward
Hornby Saves The Day! – Arthur Ward
Airfix lives to fight another day! – Arthur Ward
It’s a model kit Jim, but not as we know it… – Mat Irvine
Tony Teiger – The First Screen Blofeld! – Arthur Ward
It’s happened to my favourite brand again! – Arthur Ward

Arthur Ward’s (Kitbasher) radio interviews

Arthur Ward has recently been doing a series of ‘Collector’ spots for BBC local radio stations. If you weren’t able to catch them live, or you don't live in the area covered, you can listen to them here – it ain’t iPlayer, but it does the job!

Select one of the interviews from the lower panel to play it.