NEWS - Hornby rescued Airfix from Humbrol

[mbwoods]

NEWS in todays paper - Hornby bought Airfix for £2.6million ($4.9mill USD)from administrators to Humbrol since Humbrol went bust a few months ago

Hornby are also relocating Airfix manufacturing facilities back to the UK from France, and also Hornby gets Humbrol paints

so good news or what? comments please

michael

[suicidehummer]

Never heard of Hornby, what are they?

[kenyap83]

It is a real good mve to keep Airfix alive. Recently, I heard LGB the "G" model train manufacturer is going bust too and I think it would be sold to some chinese company. Well I hope some European compnay would take over it know that these chinese company will probably run it down interm of qulity and reliablility. Good go Hornby!

[XR6TURBO]

Hornby make model trainsets of british stuff. Not that i like trains or anything

[mbwoods]

Hornby mainly does OO gauge model railways, like Lima of Italy and Jouef of France do HO gauge model railways in Europe, and Hornby has since bought both companies along with Graham Farish N gauge and a few others.

Hornby also bought out Scalextric slot car racing system

heres the info:-
http://www.hornby.com/hornbyinternational/

[Jurva]

Its good news because Humbrol paints are many times better than Revell.

[rsxse240]

hornby has been around for years, and they've had their hands in lots of different hobbies. I had a whole bunch of old muscle cars that were in like 1/30th scale or some obscure scale (I'm guessing that they were scaled out to the larger train scales). I also had a bunch of HO scale train cars and various rail related items from them, back when I was into that kind of thing. couldn't tell you where the are now, but I don't have them.