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Vintage Airfix

Vintage Airfix (www.vintage-aifix.com) is a website dedicated to Airfix enthusiasts. You’ll find information on all the kits in all Airfix catalogues from 1962 – 2010.

 

Research and reference books are essential for modelers. It enhances the ability to work with variants as well as the understanding of the subject matter. A small selection of the books available on this site can be found below.

Spitfire Revisited: An Enthusiast's Guide to Modelling the Spitfire and Sea Fire
Forty Years of Airfix Toys
Airfix Kits
The Vintage Years of Airfix Box Art
Sixty Years of Airfix Models
Airfix Model World Basic Guide to Modelling
Airfix STARTER SET - RED ARROWS HAWK Model Toy
Airfix QUICKBUILD - LAMBORGHINI AVENTADOR Model Toy
Airfix QUICKBUILD - FORD F-150 RAPTOR Model Toy
Airfix STARTER SET - NORTH AMERICAN P-51D MUSTG Model Toy
Airfix STARTER SET - RNLI SHANNON CLASS LIFEBOT Model Toy
Airfix STARTER SET - LOCKHEED MARTIN F-35B LIGI Model Toy
Airfix STARTER SET - MESSERSCHMITT BF109F-4 Model Toy
Airfix STARTER SET - JAGUAR E-TYPE Model Toy
Airfix STARTER SET - PAGANI HUAYRA Model Toy
Airfix STARTER SET - TIGER 1 Model Toy
Airfix STARTER SET - LAND ROVER SERIES 1 Model Toy
Airfix STARTER SET - ASTON MARTIN DB5 Model Toy
Airfix STARTER SET - NEW MCLAREN 765 Model Toy
Airfix STARTER SET - LAMBORGHINI HURACAN Model Toy
Airfix QUICKBUILD - JAGUAR I-PACE ETROPHY Model Toy
The First Enigma Codebreaker: Marian Rejewski who passed the baton to Alan Turing
Backing Bletchley: The Codebreaking Outstations, From Eastcote to GCHQ
Codebreaking Sisters: Our Secret War
The Girl from Bletchley Park
Murder at Bletchley Park: The thrilling wartime mystery series
Saving Bletchley Park: How #socialmedia saved the home of the WWII codebreakers
Before Bletchley Park: The Codebreakers of the First World War
The Bletchley Park Codebreakers in Their Own Words
Bletchley Park People: Churchill's Geese that Never Cackled
Bletchley Park and the Belgian Pigeon Service
Bletchley Park and the Pigeon Spies
Colossus: The secrets of Bletchley Park's code-breaking computers
Colossus: Bletchley Park's Last Secret
Bletchley Park's Secret Source: Churchill's Wrens and the Y Service in World War II
The Secret Listeners: The Men and Women Posted Across the World to Intercept the German Codes for Bletchley Park
Churchill, Master and Commander: Winston Churchill at War 1895–1945
The Life of R. H. Tawney: Socialism and History
Explosive: Bringing the World's Deadliest Bombers to Justice
Explosive: Bringing the World's Deadliest Bombers to Justice
The Third Pole: My Everest climb to find the truth about Mallory and Irvine
Not Just Politics: 'The must read life story of Carwyn Jones and his nine years as Wales' First Minister' Gordon Brown
Relentless
Taking Command
The Secret Worlds of Stephen Ward: Sex, Scandal and Deadly Secrets in the Profumo Affair
Stonehouse: Cabinet Minister, Fraudster, Spy
A Soldier's Story: Neville ‘Timber' Wood's War, from Dunkirk to D-Day
A Brief History of the Private Life of Elizabeth II, Updated Edition
A Brief History of Florence Nightingale: and Her Real Legacy, a Revolution in Public Health
Don't Let My Past Be Your Future: A Call to Arms
An Officer and a Gentlewoman: The Making of a Female British Army Officer
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
Glass Warriors: The Camera at War
ISIS: The State of Terror
Nein: Standing Up to Hitler 1935–1944
History of War in Maps
A Foreign Field
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Devil Dogs: First in, Last out - King Company from Guadalcanal to the Shores of Japan
The Bravest Voices: The Extraordinary Heroism of Sisters Ida and Louise Cook During the Nazi Era
Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival
The Times Great Events: 200 Years of History as it Happened
SBS – Silent Warriors: The Authorised Wartime History
Target Tirpitz: X-Craft, Agents and Dambusters - the Epic Quest to Destroy Hitler’s Mightiest Warship
Hide and Seek: The Irish Priest in the Vatican Who Defied the Nazi Command. the Dramatic True Story of Rivalry and Survival Duri
The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas 1939–1945
Memoirs of a Kamikaze: A World War II Pilot's Inspiring Story of Survival, Honor and Reconciliation
From Phantom to Warthog: Memoirs of a Cold War Fighter Pilot
Lost Victories: The War Memoirs of Hilter's Most Brilliant General
Living the Cold War: Memoirs of a British Diplomat
Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters
Fighter Pilot: From Cold War Jets to Spitfires: The Extraordinary Memoirs of a Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Pilot
ON THE SPARTACUS ROAD
The Sugar Girls: Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle’s East End
Sextant: A Voyage Guided by the Stars and the Men Who Mapped the World’s Oceans
Wounds: A Memoir of War and Love
The Frayed Atlantic Edge: A Historian’s Journey from Shetland to the Channel
I Want You to Know We’re Still Here: My Family, the Holocaust and My Search for Truth
The Art of Resistance: My Four Years in the French Underground
The Troubles with Us: One Belfast Girl on Boys, Bombs and Finding Her Way
I Am Still With You: The Story of a Missing Person in the Nigerian Civil War
The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War
Dead Men Risen: The Welsh Guards and the Real Story of Britain's War in Afghanistan
An Intimate War: An Oral History of the Helmand Conflict
High Command: British Military Leadership in the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars
Danger Close: The True Story of Helmand from the Leader of 3 PARA
The Hunt: The True Story of the Secret Mission to Catch a Taliban Warlord
First Casualty: The Untold Story of the Battle That Began the War in Afghanistan
First Casualty: The Untold Story of the Battle That Began the War in Afghanistan
Unwinnable: Britain’s War in Afghanistan
Blood, Metal and Dust: How Victory Turned into Defeat in Afghanistan and Iraq
The British Army in Afghanistan 2006–14: Task Force Helmand
Immediate Response: The Centenary Collection
No Easy Day: The Only First-hand Account of the Navy Seal Mission that Killed Osama bin Laden
A Scottish Blockade Runner in the American Civil War - Joannes Wyllie of the steamer Ad-Vance
Battle Tactics of the Civil War
The Irish in the American Civil War
The Cannons Roar: Fort Sumter and the Start of the Civil War—An Oral History
Barksdale'S Charge: The True High Tide of the Confederacy at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863
Challenges of Command in the Civil War: Generalship, Leadership, and Strategy at Gettysburg, Petersburg, and Beyond, Volume I: G
Lincoln and the Irish: The Untold Story of How the Irish Helped Abraham Lincoln Save the Union
The Atlas of the Civil War
The Battle of Gettysburg 1863 (2): The Second Day
Rebels and Patriots: Wargaming Rules for North America: Colonies to Civil War
Confederate Cavalryman vs Union Cavalryman: Eastern Theater 1861–65
The Struggle for Sea Power: The Royal Navy vs the World, 1775-1782
When Britain Burned the White House: The 1814 Invasion of Washington
Brandywine: A Military History of the Battle That Lost Philadelphia but Saved America, September 11, 1777
George Washington and the Irish: Incredible Stories of the Irish Spies, Soldiers, and Workers Who Helped Free America
British Army Uniforms of the American Revolution 1751 - 1783
Patriot vs Loyalist: American Revolution 1775–83
British Light Infantry in the American Revolution
The Boer War: The Struggle for South Africa
The Boer War - A Military History - The Illustrated Edition
The Boer War
Boer War Nurse: Diary of a Nurse in South Africa with the Dutch-Belgian Red Cross During the Boer War
Boer War 1899-1902
Great Boer War
The Boer War Atlas
The Boer War
Victoria Crosses of the Zulu and Boer Wars
Baden Powell s Fighting Police The SAC: The Boer War unit that inspired the Scouts
Breaker Morant: The epic story of the Boer War and Harry 'Breaker' Morant: drover, horseman, bush poet, murderer or hero?
How Can Man Die Better: The Secrets of Isandlwana Revealed
Rorke's Drift By Those Who Were There: Volume I
Companion to the Anglo-Zulu War
A History of the 9th (Highlanders) Royal Scots: The Dandy Ninth
The Railway that Helped win the Crimean War: The Story of the Grand Crimean Central Railway
Armies of the Crimean War
The Charge: The Light Brigade, the Crimean War and a Military Disaster
The Crimean War
The Crimean War
The Crimean War and its Afterlife: Making Modern Britain
A Short History of the Crimean War
The Charge of the Heavy Brigade: Scarlett s 300 in the Crimea
The Tragedy of the Templars: The Rise and Fall of the Crusader States
Holy Warriors: A Modern History of the Crusades
The Last Years of the Teutonic Knights: Lithuania, Poland and the Teutonic Order
God's Wolf: The Life of the Most Notorious of All Crusaders: Reynald de Chatillon
Crusaders
The Crusades in 100 Objects: The Great Campaigns of the Medieval World
Access to History: The Crusades 1071–1204
The Fall of Christendom: The Road to Acre 1291
Enquiring History: The Crusades: Conflict and Controversy, 1095-1291
Remembering the Crusades: Myth, Image, and Identity
London's Lost Rivers: A Walker's Guide
"A General Plague of Madness": The Civil Wars in Lancashire, 1640-1660
The Siege of Loyalty House: A new history of the English Civil War
A Brief History of the English Civil Wars: Roundheads, Cavaliers and the Execution of the King
John Poyer, the Civil Wars in Pembrokeshire and the British Revolutions
The Siege of Loyalty House: A new history of the English Civil War
The English Civil Wars: A Beginner's Guide
Following in the Footsteps of Oliver Cromwell: A Historical Guide to the Civil War
The English Civil War: An Atlas and Concise History of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms 1639–51
Royal Renegades: The Children of Charles I and the English Civil Wars
Zealots: How a Group of Scottish Conspirators Unleashed Half a Century of War in Britain
The Civil War in Wales: The Scouring of the Nation
The English Civil War: A Military History
To The Last Round: The Epic British Stand on the Imjin River, Korea 1951
Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship and Sacrifice
The Korean War: An Epic Conflict 1950-1953
The Korean War: 1950–53
US Marine vs North Korean Soldier: Korea 1950
Yalu River 1950–51: The Chinese spring the trap on MacArthur
Imjin River 1951: Last stand of the 'Glorious Glosters'
The Bavarian Army 1806-1813
The Glorious First of June: Fleet Battle in the Reign of Terror
Frigates, Sloops & Brigs
To War with Wellington: From the Peninsula to Waterloo
Napoleon's Mercenaries
1809 Thunder on the Danube: Napoleon's Defeat of the Hapsburgs, Volume III
1809 Thunder on the Danube: Napoleon's Defeat of the Hapsburgs, Volume II
1809 Thunder on the Danube: Napoleon's Defeat of the Hapsburgs, Volume I
Wellington in the Peninsula: 1808-1814
Artillery of the Napoleonic Wars V 2
Waterloo 1815: Battle Story
Waterloo: Wellington's Victory and Napoleon's Last Campaign
Napoleon's Military Machine
Napoleon'S Admirals: Flag Officers of the ARC De Triomphe, 1789-1815
The Long Shadow of Waterloo: Myths, Memories, and Debates
My Life in the News: From Village Fete to the Front Line
V Force Boys: All New Reminiscences by Air and Ground Crews Operating the Vulcan, Victor and Valiant in the Cold War
Nimrod Boys: True Tales from the Operators of the RAF's Cold War Trailblazer
Groundcrew Boys: True Engineering Stories from the Cold War Front Line
Tornado Boys: Thrilling Tales from the Men and Women who have Operated this Indomintable Modern-Day Bomber
Meteor Boys: True Tales from the Operator's of Britain's First Jet Fighter - From 1944 to Date
Phantom Boys: True Tales from the UK Operators of the McDonnell Douglas F-4
The Northern Ireland Troubles: Operation Banner 1969-2007
Falklands War
RAF Harrier Ground Attack, Falklands
Argentine Fight for the Falklands
The Bookseller Of Kabul: The International Bestseller - 'An intimate portrait of Afghani people quite unlike any other' SUNDAY T
Not by Omission: The Case of the 1973 Arab-Israeli War
War Diary of the Ukrainian Resistance
Goose Green: The decisive battle of the Falklands War – by the British troops who fought it
The RAF's Road to D-Day: The Struggle to Exploit Air Superiority, 1943-1944
Take These Men: Tank Warfare with the Desert Rats
Women in the Second World War
Woeful Second World War
Voices from the Second World War: Witnesses share their stories with the children of today
The Times Second World War: The History of the Global Conflict from 1939 to 1945
The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won
The Second World War in Colour
The Second World War
The Second World War
The Second World War
The Second World War: A Short History
The Second World War
The Origins of the Second World War
The British Sailor of the Second World War
Wingspan Vol.5: World War One Edition
The Belgian Soldier
They All Made Peace - What's Peace?: The 1923 Treaty of Lausanne and the New Imperial Order
The Black Watch and the Great War, 1914-18: Rediscovered Histories from the Regimental Family
Hunger: How food shaped the course of the First World War
Epitaphs of The Great War: The Last 100 Days
Old Soldiers Never Die
The Royal Navy Officer’s Jutland Pocket-Manual 1916
Epitaphs of The Great War: Passchendaele
Sea Warfare
France At War
The First World War and Its Aftermath - The Shaping of the Middle East
World War I in Cartoons
The Hidden Perspective: The Military Conversations 1906-1914
Scotland and the Great War
I am Spain
'You are Legend': The Welsh Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War
Franco and the Condor Legion: The Spanish Civil War in the Air
British Battles of the Spanish Civil War: Fighting Franco
Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
Hotel Florida: Truth, Love and Death in the Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Labyrinth: An Account of the Social and Political Background of the Spanish Civil War
Low Level Hell
Street without Joy
A Short History of the Vietnam War
The Vietnam War: An Intimate History
The U.S. Army Infantryman Vietnam Pocket Manual
Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam
Air War Vietnam
The Vietnam War: 1956–75
Sign Here for Sacrifice: The Untold Story of the Third Battalion, 506th Airborne, Vietnam 1968
Tanks in the Easter Offensive 1972: The Vietnam War's great conventional clash
Going Downtown: The US Air Force over Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, 1961–75
US Air Cavalry Trooper vs North Vietnamese Soldier: Vietnam 1965–68
No Wider War: A History of the Vietnam War Volume 2: 1965–75
In Good Faith: A History of the Vietnam War Volume 1: 1945–65
Walker Bulldog vs T-54: Laos and Vietnam 1971–75
Hitler's Light Tanks: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Landing Craft & Amphibians: Seaborne Vessels in the 20th Century
Bradley Fighting Vehicle: The US Army's Combat-Proven Fighting Platform, 1981-2021
SDKFZ 251 - 251/9 and 251/22 Kanonenwagen: German Army and Waffen-SS Western and Eastern Fronts, 1944-1945
Land Rover: Military Versions of the British 4x4
Humvee: American Multi-Purpose Support Truck
M113: American Armoured Personnel Carrier
Stryker Interim Combat Vehicle: The Stryker and LAV III in US and Canadian Service, 1999-2020
Bren Gun Carrier: Britain's Universal War Machine
Challenger 1: British Main Battle Tank of the Gulf War
Tiger I: German Army Heavy Tank: Eastern Front, Summer 1943
Tank Wrecks of the Western Front 1940-1945: Rare Photographs for Wartime Archives
Stug III and IV: German Army, Waffen-SS and Luftwaffe, Western Front, 1944-1945
US Cold War Tanks and Armoured Fighting Vehicles: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
M36/M36B1 Tank Destroyer: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Northern Mythology: Tales from Norse, Finnish, and Sami Traditions
This Day in History: A 365-Day Tour of History's Most Fascinating, Important and Strange Facts and Figures
The Peace Book: Teachings from the Greatest Minds of All Time
The Big Book of Britain: Cheers to the Crown, Churchill, Shakespeare, the Beatles, and All Things British!
Worthy of Their Esteem: The Timeless Words and Sage Advice of Abraham Lincoln
Una mirada a nuestro mundo 50 anos en el futuro
Terrify No More: Young Girls Held Captive and the Daring Undercover Operation to Win Their Freedom
The Founders' Key: The Divine and Natural Connection Between the Declaration and the Constitution and What We Risk by Losing It
The American Patriot's Almanac: Daily Readings on America
Disabling America: The Unintended Consequences of the Government's Protection of the Handicapped
Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders
Bad Trip: How the War Against Drugs is Destroying America
The Debt Bomb: A Bold Plan to Stop Washington from Bankrupting America
Buried Alive: The True Story of Kidnapping, Captivity, and a Dramatic Rescue (NelsonFree)
The Fight of Our Lives: Knowing the Enemy, Speaking the Truth, and Choosing to Win the War Against Radical Islam
The History of Science Fiction and Its Toy Figurines
Airbrushing for Railway Modellers
How to Build a Model Railway
Ship Modeling Simplified: Tips and Techniques for Model Construction from Kits
Scale Aircraft for Free Flight
Ships in Scale
Game of Thrones Paper Models
A Scale Modeller's Guide to Aircraft from the Adventures of Tintin
Narrow Gauge Modelling in 009 Scale
Working Scale Model Merchant Ships
Scale Model Ship Propulsion
The Art of LEGO Scale Modeling
Complete Car Modeller Vol 1
British and Commonwealth WW2 Model Making
The History of Toy Soldiers
The Aircraft Book: The Definitive Visual History
British Airfields of the Second World War
Boatowner's Mechanical and Electrical Manual: Repair and Improve Your Boat's Essential Systems
SKY TALES: More Insights From a Life in the Skies
Aircraft: Past and Present
Nine Lives: The Story of Biggin Hill
Qantas and the Empire Flying Boat
F-16 Fighting Falcon
Spitfires Over Berlin
Hunter Boys: True Tales from Pilots of the Hawker Hunter
Lightning Boys: True Tales from Pilots of the English Electric Lightning
Britain's Aircraft Industry: Triumphs and Tragedies since 1909
Airline Tail Colours
Military Aircraft Markings 2019
Arado Ar 234 Blitz: The World's First Jet Bomber
Seats of London: A Field Guide to London Transport Moquette Patterns
Lost Tramways of Scotland: Glasgow North
Lost Tramways of Scotland: Glasgow South
Lost Tramways of Ireland: Belfast
The Go-Ahead Group: The First 25 Years
The Leyland Atlantean
York Independents: Western Operators: Western Stage Bus Operators
Bristol Lodekka
Merseyside Transport: The 1950s - 1970s
The Bus We Loved: London's Affair With The Routemaster
American 1/2-Ton Pickup Trucks of the 1950s
Routemasters of the Universe
Bradford Trolleybuses: The Later Years and Closure
Buses Yearbook (2023)
Yorkshire Dales Buses: West Yorkshire Road Car Company in Wharfedale: The 1950s to 1970s
Fighting in the Dark: Naval Combat at Night, 1904 1945
The British Sailor of the Second World War
Naval Archives Vol. V
River, Coast and Creek: - an Exploration of Maritime Essex
To Rule the Waves: How Control of the World's Oceans Shapes the Fate of the Superpowers
The Queen's Pirate: Sir Francis Drake and the Golden Hind
Quirky History: Maritime Moments Most History Books Don’t Mention
Scottish Arctic Whaling
John Harrison and the Quest for Longitude
Fish and Ships: A Nautical Miscellany
Royal Greenwich: A History in Kings and Queens
Scottish Lighthouse Pioneers: Travels with the Stevensons in Orkney and Shetland
Imperial Japanese Navy Destroyers 1919–45 (2): Asashio to Tachibana Classes
Lighthouses of Ireland: An Illustrated Guide to the Sentinels that Guard our Coastline
The Last Crusade: The Epic Voyages of Vasco da Gama
Ford Gt40 Anthology: A Unique Compilation of Stories About These Most Iconic Cars
Ford Mustang: America's Original Pony Car
Ford Cars 1945 to 1995: A Pictorial History
Mercedes-Benz 300 SL: The Car of the Century
Holy Halls: The Secret Car Collection of Mercedes-Benz
Bugatti Blue: Prescott and the Spirit of Bugatti
AC Sports Cars in Detail: Six-cylinder Models 1933-1963
Vespa 75 Years: The complete history: Updated edition
BMW Motorrad: Make Life a Ride
Classic British Motorcycles: An Illustrated History
Island Racer 2023: Island Racer - The Best TT Action Past and Present
My Cool Motorcycle: An Inspirational Guide to Motorcycles and Biking Culture
my cool scooter: an inspirational guide to stylish scooters
Royal Enfield - The Complete Story
Royal Enfield: The Story of the Company and the People Who Made it Great: 1851-1969
The Railway that Helped win the Crimean War: The Story of the Grand Crimean Central Railway
Britain's Railways in the Second World War
Book 4: Midlands & North West
Book 1: Scotland & Isle of Man
Rails Through The Heart of Wales: The Heart of Wales Line 150 years on
Dickens on Railways: A Great Novelist's Travels by Train
On The Tracks Of The Thames-Clyde Express
East of England Steam 1948-1963
The Glorious Years of the GNR Great Northern Railway
Gresley's D49s
North East Steam 1948-1968
The Last Years of London Steam
The Glorious Years of the LNER: London North Eastern Railway
Scottish Steam 1948-1967
Railways and the Dales
Alpha: a reckoning for the Navy SEALs
Three Days In June: The Incredible Minute-by-Minute Oral History of 3 Para's Deadly Falklands War Battle
The Soldier Who Came Back
Carve Her Name with Pride
We Die Alone
The Nemesis File - The True Story of an SAS Execution Squad
Sea Dog Bamse: World War II Canine Hero
Soldier Five: The Real Truth About The Bravo Two Zero Mission
Secret Spitfires: Britain’s Hidden Civilian Army
Born For War: One SAS Trooper's Extraordinary Account of the Falklands War
The Death of a Soldier Told by His Sister
ZOV: Inside Putin's Corrupt War in Ukraine - A Dissident Soldier's Story
The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History
Bloody Heroes
The Man with the Poison Gun: A Cold War Spy Story