Other Airfix Products
The Airfix group of companies produced many
different ranges of products - not all of
them kits, toys or games. For example:
- Crayonne - plastic home accessories, including
a kitchen and bathroom range. Sold by Habitat
in the UK in the early 1970s. Also opened
as "shops within shops" in the
US
- Meccano - owned by Airfix, and probably the
main contributory cause of the bankruptcy
in 1981
- Declon - body care products, sold by Boots
in the UK
- Footwear - very successful (for a time) plastic
shoe range
- Airfix Plastics - crates for the food industry,
and a modular transport system, etc
All of the above are beyond the scope of
this website. However, separate sections
have been created for the following Airfix
ranges:
Airfix and MRRC Motor Racing &
MotorAce
slot-car sets |
Airfix Toys & Games
Airfix Betta Bilda and Building Set ranges
can be found on my Toys & Games page |
Airfix Railway System and GMR (Great
Model
Railways)
Electric Train sets |
In reality, although separate ranges, Airfix
toy products overlapped to a considerable
extent, as shown by the following examples:
- most Kit catalogues featured the other toy
ranges on their back covers. Examples of
other ranges seen at the back-end of the
Kit catalogues
- Motor Racing (slot-cars)
- Betta Bilda
- Arts & Crafts range
- Toys & Games range
- Airfix books
- the Railway System and GMR catalogues included
kits from the Airfix OO trackside range,
plus some rolling stock kits
- the 8th and 9th Edition Kit Catalogues include
the Craft Time range (plastic kit jewelry
boxes, book-ends, vanity mirror etc) within
their kit section
- Motor Racing (slot-cars) featured as a major
section of the Toys catalogue until it
gained
its own catalogue
- the Motor Racing range included motorised
cars adapted from standard Airfix 1/32
car
kits
- The following appeared consistently in both kit and toy catalogues:
- Attack Force
- HO/OO and 1/32 ready-made polythene vehicles
- HO/OO figure sets
- 1/32 ready-made figures
- Forts, dioramas and Assault Sets
- Combat Packs (1/32 dioramas with ready-made
vehicles)
- Battlefront Series (1/72 dioramas with kits)