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

• 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)