Airfix was started in 1939 and since it produced its first plastic kit in 1949 has grown to be the United Kingdoms leading model kit manufacturer. Several generations of young and youngatheart modellers have made Airfix kits and despite turbulent times in the 1970s and 1980s when the company changed ownership several times in the twentyfirst century it goes from strength to strength under the wing of Hornby Hobbies. The 1960s and early 1970s might be called the vintage years of Airfix when so