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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 classic like the Blenheim or the latest Avro Anson kit 🎧 Community Chats – Join conversations akin to Spr...

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Workbench Edition 415- Blackjack joins Moggy for an RAF Typhoon Display Team scale tribute 29.05.2026 32:27

Welcome to the latest edition of our weekly Workbench blog, and all the news, updates, and modelling exclusives from the fascinating world of Airfix. If we have just enjoyed more than two consecutive days of scorching weather here in the UK, we must already be in the latest Airshow season, and can therefore start to get a little excited about seeing skies filled with aeroplanes. Unfortunately, las...

Workbench edition 414 - A world of warships gathering on the Airfix Workbench 15.05.2026 30:36

Welcome to the latest edition of our weekly Workbench blog, and all the news, updates, and modelling exclusives from the fascinating world of Airfix. When it comes to modelling the machines which took part in the two world wars of the 20th century, few have the aesthetic gravitas of the mighty warships which fought for control of the oceans, leviathans of the sea which in addition to wielding unim...

Workbench edition 413- First knights of the Air 08.05.2026 36:58

Welcome to the latest edition of our weekly Workbench blog, and all the news, updates, and modelling exclusives from the fascinating world of Airfix. For those of us who have a few years invested in this wonderful hobby of ours, we know only too well how the model kits we’ve enjoyed building over the years, particularly early on in our modelling journeys, helped to provide us with a different pers...

Workbench edition 413- The ‘Flying Shed’ becomes an Airfix Vintage Classic 05.05.2026 22:28

Welcome to the latest edition of our weekly Workbench blog, and all the news, updates, and modelling exclusives from the fascinating world of Airfix. This week’s title and header image serve as confirmation that we will be returning to the nostalgic world of Vintage Classics in this latest edition of Workbench, as we prepare to welcome the scale model kit induction of one of the most unusual looki...

Workbench Edition 412- Swedish Air Force centenary tribute in scale 27.04.2026 41:33

Welcome to the latest edition of our weekly Workbench blog, and all the news, updates, and modelling exclusives from the fascinating world of Airfix. UK based enthusiasts know only too well how the centenary of their air force’s establishment is a time for national celebration, as they will no doubt have the pictures, books and memorabilia all gathered during a year of RAF 100 commemorations from...

Workbench Edition 411- Saracen – Britain’s classic Cold War Armoured Personnel Carrier 17.04.2026 32:48

Welcome to the latest edition of our weekly Workbench blog, and all the news, updates, and modelling exclusives from the fascinating world of Airfix. We have a real Airfix treat for you in this week’s edition of Workbench, as we pay our first blog visit of the year to one of the new tooling projects joining the range in 2026, the latest classic addition to our incredibly popular 1/35th scale milit...

Workbench Edition 410- Sapphire Anniversary for NASA’s Space Shuttle 10.04.2026 20:58

Welcome to the latest edition of our weekly Workbench blog, and all the news, updates, and modelling exclusives from the fascinating world of Airfix. In a week which has been nothing short of momentous in the history of human space exploration, there really could only be one subject for this week’s edition of Workbench, and that would be for us to continue reaching for the stars. As the crew of Ar...

Workbench Edition 409 - Airfix introduce RAF Typhoon Display Team double kit tributes at the treble 02.04.2026 33:48

Welcome to this first edition of our Workbench blog for 2026, and all the news, updates, and modelling exclusives from the fascinating world of Airfix. Having just completed another year of bringing our loyal readers weekly Workbench development updates, and with our latest range launch now just days away, we thought that we might try something just that little bit different for this latest editio...

Workbench edition 408- British Army to bid farewell to their iconic Land Rovers 27.03.2026 32:12

Welcome to the latest edition of our weekly Workbench blog, and all the news, updates, and modelling exclusives from the fascinating world of Airfix. Read the blog: https://uk.airfix.com/community/blog-and-news/workbench/british-army-bid-farewell-their-iconic-land-rovers For this week’s edition of Workbench, we will be entering the fascinating world of iconic British military vehicles , as we mark...

Workbench edition 407 | The Avro Vulcan’s last flight in RAF service 23.03.2026 21:35

Welcome to the latest edition of our weekly Workbench blog, and all the news, updates, and modelling exclusives from the fascinating world of Airfix. We find ourselves returning to the subject of significant aviation related anniversaries in this week’s edition of Workbench, as we bring you not one, but two blog posts connected to two of the most significant aircraft to have ever performed on the...

Workbench 406 | Messerschmitt ‘Black 6’ – ‘She goes like a train!’ 20.03.2026 23:59

How Flying real Aircraft changed the way I Build Models | Sprue Talk with @thescalemodellingcafe 14.03.2026 1:14:10

Head of Brand Dale Luckhurst is joined by Product Development Manager Matthew Whiting and @thescalemodellingcafe to talk all things Airfix, Flying Career and more! Visit the Airfix range: www.airfix.com #airfix #scalemodelling #aviationhistory #modelkit

Workbench 405 | Airfix pay tribute to the Irish Air Corps 13.03.2026 35:57

Welcome to the latest edition of our weekly Workbench blog, and all the news, updates, and modelling exclusives from the fascinating world of Airfix. With the subject of aircraft and aviation history proving to be so utterly captivating for so many people, it’s no wonder that the scale modelling hobby has thrived as it has over the years, as it’s taken so much subject inspiration from man’s enduri...

Workbench 404 | Spitfire 90 – First flight of an aviation legend 06.03.2026 37:04

Welcome to the latest edition of our weekly Workbench blog, and all the news, updates, and modelling exclusives from the fascinating world of Airfix. When it comes to important dates in the history of aviation, there can be few which command the significance of the one which took place on an airfield near Southampton 90 years ago today, so important in fact that it requires the early publication o...

Workbench 403 | Douglas Bader – A man for Britain’s finest hour 27.02.2026 35:07

Welcome to the latest edition of our weekly Workbench blog, and all the news, updates, and modelling exclusives from the fascinating world of Airfix. The title of this week’s edition of Workbench leaves us in no doubt whatsoever that we have something rather special in mind this time around, and will see us delving into the inspirational world of one of Britain’s favourite sons, a man who helped g...

Workbench Edition 402 | ‘The Lynx Effect’ headlines Rotary Weekend 20.02.2026 43:33

Welcome to the latest edition of our weekly Workbench blog, and all the news, updates, and modelling exclusives from the fascinating world of Airfix. Our subject area for this latest edition of the Airfix blog sees us venturing into the fascinating world of post war rotary aviation, but more specifically, our model tributes to some of the most significant examples of these aircraft to ever see Bri...

Workbench Edition 401- Love your hobby this Valentine’s Day 13.02.2026 31:08

As this weekend will see millions of people around the world celebrating Valentine’s Day, and our undying love for that special someone, or something in our lives, there really could be only one subject for this latest edition of Workbench, even though we’re probably going to be requiring the use of your imagination at points along the way. Will we be able to produce something which encompasses lo...

Workbench Edition 400 | 400th edition of Workbench and Airfix goes stratospheric 09.02.2026 27:40

Welcome to the latest edition of our weekly Workbench blog, and all the news, updates, and modelling exclusives from the fascinating world of Airfix. We seem to have started this year with a succession of different kinds of blog updates, with the vast majority not conforming to our usual format, but all celebrating the Airfix brand and the simple pleasures of the modelling hobby. We’re pleased to...

Workbench Edition 397 - English Electric Lightning F.6 – Samlesbury’s supersonic sensation 30.01.2026 36:34

Welcome to this first edition of our Workbench blog for 2026, and all the news, updates, and modelling exclusives from the fascinating world of Airfix. As we settle into the enjoyable business of introducing all the new 2026 range model kit release to our Workbench audience, we begin by featuring a kit which may have caught a few people by surprise when presenting itself on range launch day, but h...

Workbench Edition 396- The 2026 world of Airfix modelling is just a click away 23.01.2026 37:43

Welcome to this first edition of our Workbench blog for 2026, and all the news, updates, and modelling exclusives from the fascinating world of Airfix. In the previous edition of Workbench, we began our review of new Airfix model kits for 2026 by looking at the recently announced Airfix Club kit for this year and our 1/72nd scale tribute to this year’s centenary commemorations of the Svenska Flygv...

Workbench edition 395- 2026 Airfix Club kit commemorates Swedish Air Force centenary 20.01.2026 29:19

Welcome to this first edition of our Workbench blog for 2026, and all the news, updates, and modelling exclusives from the fascinating world of Airfix. The start to any new year is an extremely busy time for the Airfix team, and the wider modelling community, as we prepare to unleash our latest collection of model kits on an expectant modelling world, something we did once again last Wednesday. As...

Workbench edition 394- The most popular Airfix kits of 2025 16.01.2026 59:34

Workbench edition 393- Prying Photo-Reconnaissance Spitfires updated 02.01.2026 38:49

As most of us will still be clinging steadfastly to the festive spirit on this first Friday in the new year, we thought we’d embark on a new year of Workbench blogs by updating one of our popular editions from last year, particularly as we now find ourselves in possession of built model samples of the kit in question. As our subject aircraft just happens to be arguably the most famous piston engin...

Workbench Edition 392 - Return of the RAF’s Defiant turret fighter 24.12.2025 33:41

Welcome 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 part in this aerial duel has just returned to the c...

Workbench edition 391 - Supermarine’s much needed Focke Wulf slayer 22.12.2025 27:18

Welcome 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 Spitfire’s finest hour, and the end of the war in...