''Airfix Model World'' is a monthly magazine published in the

United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and North ...

Key Publishing Key Publishing is a magazine publishing company specialising in aviation titles, based in Stamford, Lincolnshire, England. History '' Airliner World'' was launched in 1999. In 2005 it launched ''Airports of the World'', and in the same year i ...

since 2010, produced under licence from

Airfix Airfix is a British brand and former manufacturing company which produced injection-moulded plastic scale model kits. In the U.K., the name 'Airfix' is synonymous with plastic models of this type, often simply referred to as "an airfix kit" even ...

. It covers the hobby of

plastic model :''In art and architecture, plastic model may also be any three-dimensional physical model, regardless of material.'' :''In mechanical engineering, a plastic model is a mathematical model of a material which incorporates plasticity.'' image:South-G ...

making, particularly model aircraft, but also including model cars, ships, sci-fi/spacecraft, armoured vehicles and figures. It is effectively the successor to an earlier publication, ''

Airfix Magazine ''Airfix Magazine'' was the first British magazine dedicated to the hobby of plastic modelling. It was launched in 1960 in association with the model kit company Airfix, and ceased publication in 1993. Originally a small-format magazine, it in ...

'', which ceased in 1993.

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