From the world of Airfix, dive into “Workbench”, the audio companion to Airfix’s beloved Workbench blog. Each episode brings the workshop to your ears, with a deep dive into everything from exclusive model reveals and technique spotlights to candid chats with the creators behind the builds. 🛠️ Exclusive Insights – Hear firsthand from Airfix designers and developers about the process behind your favourite kits, ✈️ Model Spotlight – Explore the story of each release, whether it’s a revived cla ...
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Workbench Edition 392 - Return of the RAF’s Defiant turret fighter
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33:41Welcome to this latest edition of our Workbench blog and all the news, updates, and modelling exclusives from the fascinating world of Airfix. It’s somehow fitting that whilst we still find ourselves just about in the 85th Anniversary year of the Battle of Britain, that our 1/48th scale model tribute to the RAF’s most unusual fighter type to take p…
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Workbench edition 391 - Supermarine’s much needed Focke Wulf slayer
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27:18Welcome to this latest edition of our Workbench blog and all the news, updates, and modelling exclusives from the fascinating world of Airfix. It’s been quite a year for Supermarine Spitfire related developments, anniversaries and associated media content. With this year marking the 85th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, which was arguably the …
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Workbench Edition 394- Bulldog – the RAF’s classic inter-war interceptor
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36:29Welcome to this latest edition of our Workbench blog and all the news, updates, and modelling exclusives from the fascinating world of Airfix. Well, we’ve managed it – we’ve safely negotiated another hectic year! With this being the final edition of Workbench for 2025, we wanted to go out with a serious cracker of a BANG, so that being the case, wh…
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Workbench Editon 393 - Fast Attack Craft wreak havoc in coastal waters
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25:42As the Airfix team have been working hard on preparing the 2026 Airfix catalogue over the previous few weeks and the heady modelling nostalgia this always invokes, it could hardly be more appropriate that this week’s edition of Workbench see’s us returning to the world of Vintage Classics, and the latest addition to this popular range. Indeed, we d…
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Workbench Edition 390- Victorious return for Britain’s final V-Bomber kit
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32:41Welcome to this latest edition of our Workbench blog and all the news, updates, and modelling exclusives from the fascinating world of Airfix. Our subject for this latest edition of Workbench is the heavily requested re-introduction of an incredibly popular kit, one which has to be regarded as one of the most impressive to have ever graced the Airf…
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Workbench Edition 388- New Gustav ‘Superkit’ makes debut at Scale ModelWorld 2025
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30:37Welcome to this latest edition of our Workbench blog and all the news, updates, and modelling exclusives from the fascinating world of Airfix. Well, what a spectacular weekend that turned out to be. With the latest instalment of the Scale ModelWorld phenomenon now done and dusted, we can confidently confirm that this modelling hobby we all enjoy so…
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Workbench Edition 387 | Airfix unleash large scale Me 109 ‘Gustav’ at Scale ModelWorld
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39:36Welcome to this latest edition of our Workbench blog and all the news, updates, and modelling exclusives from the fascinating world of Airfix. You will have noticed that we have a slightly later publication timing for this latest edition of our Workbench blog this week, but for very good reason. By now, the Airfix events team will be hard at work s…
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Workbench Edition 387 | Workbench celebrates Avro Week
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46:45Our blog title for this week was intentionally selected to possess a little more intrigue than usual, as we want to do something a little different with this latest edition. As far as we know, there’s never actually been an ‘Avro Week’ commemoration event, and certainly never here on the Workbench blog, but as we find ourselves on the cusp of the s…
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Workbench Edition 386 | Famous Griffon powered Spitfire is a triple scheme tribute
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35:14Welcome to this latest edition of our Workbench blog and all the news, updates, and modelling exclusives from the fascinating world of Airfix. The one thing you have always been able to rely on Airfix to provide the modelling world with is an impressive selection of classic scale aircraft model kits across several different scales, something which …
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Workbench Edition 385 | ‘Secret’ Mosquito gains new parts
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27:16As we currently find ourselves on the cusp of actual modelling season, with the longer nights providing us with an excuse to spend much more time at our workstations, can you think of a better way of celebrating this than by announcing our latest 'secret' model release? On Wednesday this week, we announced details of just the third releases from ou…
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Workbench Edition 384 | New Airfix Ferret Scout Car artwork unlocks memories for Gulf War veteran
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21:48Welcome to this latest edition of our Workbench blog and all the news, updates, and modelling exclusives from the fascinating world of Airfix. With almost 400 Workbench blogs now successfully under our belts, we’re never afraid to try something just that little bit different when putting one together, with this current edition being something of a …
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Workbench Edition 383 | Space exploration in kit form – we’re ready for Blast Off!
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27:36Welcome to this latest edition of our Workbench blog and all the news, updates, and modelling exclusives from the fascinating world of Airfix. As the world prepares to celebrate Space Week, there really could only be one subject for this latest edition of Workbench, an edition which really could be described as being out of this world. Unquestionab…
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Workbench Edition 382 | Vintage Jaguar kit and Airfix classic
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23:15Welcome to this latest edition of our Workbench blog and all the news, updates, and modelling exclusives from the fascinating world of Airfix. Over the course of the next few weeks, we’re expecting several new Vintage Classics kit releases to arrive in our warehouse, as we move towards welcoming the final kits from the current range as we head towa…
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Workbench Edition 381 | The Luftwaffe’s ‘Wolf in sheep’s clothing’
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36:18Welcome to this latest edition of our Workbench blog and all the news, updates, and modelling exclusives from the fascinating world of Airfix. After last weekend’s bumper Battle of Britain 85th Anniversary edition and Hawker Hurricane linked feature in Airfix Aerodrome, we’re taking things just a little bit easier this week for a number of reasons,…
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Airfix-Workbench | Battle of Britain 85 – Honouring more than the ‘Few’
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53:54In a year which has already seen the world commemorating and celebrating several significant WWII anniversaries, this year’s Battle of Britain Day commemorations will be marking 85 years since the pilots of Fighter Command repelled the incessant Luftwaffe attacks against British targets, including day and night attacks against London. With Britain …
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Airfix- Workbench | British Army Cold War equipment trio a diorama creator’s delight
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27:20Welcome to this latest edition of our Workbench blog and all the news, updates, and modelling exclusives from the fascinating world of Airfix. We have something very different to the norm in this latest edition of Workbench, as we will be featuring no fewer than THREE impending model kit release additions to the current range this time around, with…
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Airfix | Workbench- SLS Artemis – An Airfix design project that’s out of this world
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30:31Welcome to this latest edition of our Workbench blog and all the news, updates, and modelling exclusives from the fascinating world of Airfix. We’re excited to be back in the fascinating territory of new kit additions to the current Airfix range in this latest edition of Workbench, or to be precise, the actual design of them, as we bring you detail…
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Airfix- Workbench | Westland Wessex. One of the world’s truly great helicopters
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34:06Welcome to this latest edition of our Workbench blog and all the news, updates, and modelling exclusives from the fascinating world of Airfix. Following on from our Designer Interview edition, which was posted last weekend, we once again return to the subject of new 2025 tooling additions to the Airfix range in this latest edition of Workbench, and…
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Airfix - Workbench | A Westland Wessex sized challenge for Airfix designer
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30:51Welcome to this latest edition of our Workbench blog and all the news, updates, and modelling exclusives from the fascinating world of Airfix. We’re delighted to be in a position to confirm that for the next two editions of Workbench, the focus of our attentions will to be exclusively related to one of the headline new tooling announcements made to…
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Airfix- Workbench | The most famous Luftwaffe aircraft of them all?
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26:18Welcome to this latest edition of our Workbench blog and all the news, updates, and modelling exclusives from the fascinating world of Airfix. In this edition of Workbench, we will be looking at our latest scale model kit tribute to an aircraft which has to be considered one of the most notorious of the entire Second World War, one which became syn…
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Airfix- Workbench | Royal Air Force ‘Whaleback’ ASR launches – The sea shall not have them
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29:16Welcome to this latest edition of our Workbench blog and all the news, updates, and modelling exclusives from the fascinating world of Airfix. We have something very different as our subject matter up for review this time around, as we prepare to welcome the first of three appealing High Speed Craft additions to our Vintage Classics range in 1/72nd…
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Airfix | Airfix raise a glass to beer carrying Spitfires
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36:43Welcome to this latest edition of our Workbench blog and all the news, updates, and modelling exclusives from the fascinating world of Airfix. As the Airfix team return from our attendance at the Royal International Air Tattoo, and four long and intense days of working and talking all things modelling and aeroplanes, we wanted to take this Workbenc…
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Airfix | Workbench- B-24 Liberator mystery in the Sahara
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37:13One of the main offensive assets the Allied air forces could call upon during the Second World War was the availability of large numbers of capable four engined heavy bombers. Both Britain and America introduced aircraft capable of carrying the fight to enemy occupied Europe, with the Luftwaffe’s inability to match them thought by many to be one of…
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Airfix | Workbench- Chinook – An aviation phenomenon
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27:54As the Airfix team are engaged in making final preparations for our attendance at this year’s Royal International Air Tattoo, our latest Workbench update features our latest scale tribute to an aircraft which has to be described as one of the most significant of the post war era, the current RAF incarnation of which is scheduled to be thrilling the…
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Airfix | Workbench- Folland Gnat – Flying in the face of convention
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24:19Welcome to this latest edition of our Workbench blog and all the news, updates, and modelling exclusives from the fascinating world of Airfix. With so many new model release additions joining the Airfix range at this present moment, it didn’t take us long to decide that it was time to unleash the latest double blog weekend on our loyal Workbench au…
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Airfix | Workbench- Great War trio charts development of military aviation
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39:10In this latest edition of our Workbench blog, we will be attempting to chart the early development of military aviation through the medium of impending new model kit releases to the current Airfix range, as we have a trio of Great War related releases scheduled for imminent arrival. All three aircraft were introduced over a 30 month period from the…
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Airfix | Workbench- Ferret follow-up is a military model classic
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27:16As we welcome this new Ferret kit to the current Airfix range, we will be taking this update opportunity to look a little more closely at the wider Ferret story, to showcase a beautiful selection of built model images, and to include details behind the three scheme options which are included with this highly anticipated second release. With two dif…
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Airfix | Workbench - Supermarine Spitfire Tr.9 - How to train pilots to fly the world’s most advanced fighter?
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30:08Our new Supermarine Spitfire Tr.9 kit has unquestionably been at the top of the new tooling pre-ordering charts since it was announced early this year, and along with the new SEPECAT Jaguar, have shown themselves to be the two new models we know people are most desperate to get their hands on. For this reason, we know that news of its release will …
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Airfix | Workbench- Boeing Clipper - Long-haul travel luxury amongst the clouds
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33:42Welcome to the very first episode of our brand-new podcast! To kick things off, we’re diving into the golden age of aviation with the iconic Boeing 314 “Clipper.” A symbol of luxury and long-haul travel in the late 1930s and ’40s, this majestic flying boat offered passengers an experience more like a cruise than a flight—complete with dining rooms,…
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