R.I.P airfix

I don't know if anyone has heard but airfix and heller have closed down!
neither will make kits anymore.:disappoin

Yeah, I've heard it on the radio when I was in France last week :-(

No one is going to take over the two?

W.

although Airfix is dead, I doubt there tooling is. odds are someone is going to buy them, they won't just destroy them

yes, they've gone bust. lack of money brought the company's downfall. i don't think they were rivalling the quality of the other kits out there, or the selection.

i doubt the tollings will go to waste, i'd imagine they'll be bought by someone else and will get re-used.

i was told by the distributors in Australia not to worry as they will be picked up by someone as Humbrol has just brought out a new line of acrylic paint.
And it was Heller that brought down Arfix a Humbrol.And for selling of the kits i seem to sell more of the small 1/72 kit than any of the other kits in our store even if they are bad molding

I heard on the news today it said that Hornby had saved Airfix by purchasing it today.

Several news outlets are running pretty nostalgic pieces on this, and not all of them are about how video games are destroying the modeling industry...

http://news.google.com/news?q=airfix