Airfix Weebles

Author : Jeremy Brook
Publisher : The Crowood Press
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781785005367

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Forty Years of Airfix Toys by Jeremy Brook Pdf

Airfix acquired the first plastic injection moulding machine in the U.K. in the mid 1940's and was soon manufacturing vast numbers of plastic toys. By 1981, when Airfix's financial woes led to takeover and the end of all production save for plastic model kits, it had made a wide variety of toys, games, arts, crafts, building sets, racing sets, model trains and even Meccano and Dinky toys. Profusely illustrated with over three hundred photographs, Forty Years of Airfix Toys gives the full history of the Airfix toy range including year-by-year listings of all the toys sold by Airfix; logs and packaging; Airfix's magazines and a full listing of Airfix pattern numbers. It is a comprehensive guide to the history of the toys produced by the iconic brand Airfix.

Author : Arthur Ward
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-18
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781473822313

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The Other Side Of Airfix by Arthur Ward Pdf

Airfix is synonymous with plastic model kits. The brand name has virtually become a noun, occupying a special place in that lexicon of trade names alongside Hoover, Sellotape, Perspex and Aqua-Lung.Throughout the war years Airfix survived on government contracts for a whole range of plastic items and by virtue of Kove's tenancious apetitie for business and doing a deal. By the war's end Airfix was the market leader in plastic injection moulded combs in Britain. By the time Airfix had released its first proper construction kit, a tiny model of Drake's flagship Golden Hind, in 1952, the firm was well established as a leading toy brand. Indeed throughout the 1950s, 60s and 70s Airfix invested heavily in developing new toys or manufacturing them under license for large US toy companies such as Hasbro. Very soon Airfix extended its activities beyond toys into games and arts and crafts and in short time famous names.Indeed so successful was Airfix at diversifying that by the 1970s the company had grown to such an extent that it had acquired other famous toy brands including Dinky Toys, Tri-ang, Meccano, and Romper Room. With its subsidiary Crayonne Airfix even harnessed the design talents of the then Terence Conranne in attempt to elevate plastic products to the rarified atmosphere of designer chic.So there's a lot more to Airfix than many might think and this book is the first attempt to document the myriad successful lines, outside of plastic kits, which contributed to the company's dramatic growth before a combination of factors forced it into brief liquidation in 1981. Written by someone with a lifetime's fascination for Airfix and who has written other books about the better known construction kit side of the business, The Other Airfix is a nostalgic trip down memory lane.

Author : Airfix Products Ltd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1425944886

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Airfix. Weebles by Airfix Products Ltd Pdf

Author : Craig Stevens
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476628509

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The Star Wars Phenomenon in Britain by Craig Stevens Pdf

Among the top-grossing Hollywood blockbusters of all time, Star Wars launched one of the most successful movie and licensing franchises in history. Yet much of the film's backstory was set in Britain, where the original trilogy was made and where early efforts at tie-in merchandising were spearheaded. The author provides a detailed account of the saga's British connection, including personal recollections of fans in the UK, exclusive interviews with staff members of Palitoy who took on the challenge of producing millions of toys, and the story of how a group of writers from the underground press in London combined with Marvel comics to produce the first Star Wars expanded universe.

Author : Roshan Mansukhani
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Children's paraphernalia
ISBN : CORNELL:31924001777634

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The Nursery Market by Roshan Mansukhani Pdf

Author : Jeremy Brook
Publisher : Crowood
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-30
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781847979766

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Sixty Years of Airfix Models by Jeremy Brook Pdf

The best-known and most important manufacturer of plastic model kits in the UK, Airfix has been at the forefront of the industry since 1955 when the first Airfix aircraft kit appeared in UK branches of Woolworth's. The kits were made to a constant scale and covered a wide variety of subjects, from aircraft to birds and from tanks to dinosaurs. In 1981 the famous London-based company closed down and only the kits survived intact. For the next twenty-five years Airfix was run by Palitoy and later Humbrol, but suffered from a lack of investment. In 2006, Hornby Hobbies Ltd, the train and Scalextric manufacturer, bought the ailing company and transformed it. Money and resources were ploughed into the range, and today Airfix releases around twenty new kits per year, designed to an incredibly high standard. The old kits of the 1950s and 1960s are gradually being replaced by new state-of-the-art tooling, all bearing that most prestigious name - Airfix. Published to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of the first Airfix aircraft kit, Sixty Years of Airfix Models, tells the full story, year by year, of the company and its products. Illustrated throughout with colour photographs.of kits, box art and completed models.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : UCSD:31822015384373

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Aerospace by Anonim Pdf

Author : Airfix Products Ltd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1425970650

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Airfix. New Releases by Airfix Products Ltd Pdf

Author : Trevor Pask
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-20
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780747809753

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Airfix Kits by Trevor Pask Pdf

With the aid of stringy glue and scalpel-sliced fingers, young and old have turned display cabinets and bedrooms into mini-museums, or tiny battlefields. This book looks at the fascinating tale of this British company a pioneer in the world of modelling as well as its products, its changing fortunes over the years, and its links with popular culture. Using colour images, Trevor Pask explores this thriving pastime, allowing Airfix kit lovers to indulge in a nostalgic journey and those new to the hobby an intriguing insight into its history.

Author : Roy Cross
Publisher : Crowood
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781847978219

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More Vintage Years of Airfix Box Art by Roy Cross Pdf

The Airfix company was formed in 1939 and, since it produced its first plastic kit in 1949, grew to be the United Kingdom's leading model kit manufacturer. Several generations of young and young-at-heart modellers have made Airfix kits and, despite turbulent times in the 1970s and 1980s when the company changed ownership several times, in the twenty-first 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 some of their best and most popular kits were produced. For ten years up to 1974, renowned artist Roy Cross produced some of the stunning paintings that appear on the boxes of Airfix kits of the era. Roy set the standard for such artwork, to the extent that many are still used today, four decades later. Roy Cross's earlier book, The Vintage Years of Airfix Box Art, contained a host of the paintings he prepared for Airfix, but the unearthing of many more images in old Airfix files has enabled this entirely fresh look at Roy's work to be presented, coinciding with the seventy-fifth anniversary of the first Airfix kit. Thus the remainder of Roy's ten years' work for Airfix is reproduced here. This new compilation features many rare illustrations as well as studies and sketches that were not accepted at the time, and is beautifully illustrated with 180 colour artworks.

Author : Arthur Ward
Publisher : Collins
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Airplanes
ISBN : 0007163703

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Airfix by Arthur Ward Pdf

This title aims to enable everyone to relive the glory days of the Airfix plastic air forces (or tank fleets) and perhaps to pass the torch to their children. Photographs show the rare and collectible kits as well as the best sellers, with illustrations of the packets, box art, adverts in 1960s and 1970s magazines, and a mass of period ephemera. The accompanying text charts the rise, fall and rise again of Airfix models. are now re-releasing 40 kits a year, bringing back some not seen for 20 years.

Author : Arthur Ward
Publisher : Random House
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Modelmaking industry
ISBN : 9780091928988

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The Boys' Book of Airfix by Arthur Ward Pdf

Airfix is the most famous plastic model construction kit company in the world. This title packs with photos of the kits from the 1950s. It provides the story of the dramatic twists and turns of the Airfix saga.

Author : Roy Cross
Publisher : The Crowood Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781785006425

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The Art of Roy Cross by Roy Cross Pdf

Roy Cross RSMA GAvA began work as an illustrator in Fairey Aviation during World War II. Over the next thirty years, he progressed from line illustration, via colour artwork, to top-class advertising art for the aircraft industry and other companies, including Airfix, for whom he produced many hundreds of artworks to adorn model kit boxes over a ten-year period. His illustrations for Airfix included superb depictions of aircraft, cars, ships, spacecraft, armoured vehicles and dioramas. Though Roy is perhaps most famous for his Airfix box art, his work has encompassed book and magazine illustrations, including highly detailed cutaways and other technical drawings. In more recent years, Roy has concentrated on the production of his magnificent maritime paintings.

Author : Paul Surridge
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Wales, South
ISBN : 9780957312302

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Girls Can't Make Gun Noises by Paul Surridge Pdf

Author : Maurice E. Baren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Advertising
ISBN : 1870071921

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How it All Began by Maurice E. Baren Pdf