AH5012 2027 Airfix Calendar

Twelve months of classic Airfix artwork for your wall. The 2027 Airfix Calendar features a different painting every month, from Roy Cross originals of the 1960s, including Concorde, the Avro Lancaster and the Apollo 11 Lunar Module, through to Adam Tooby’s modern digital work on the Spitfire Mk.IXc and the RNLI Shannon lifeboat. Each month also marks the dates that matter in aviation, military and space history, from the Spitfire’s first flight to the Moon landing. A treat for any modeller or collector who grew up with Airfix.

Key Features

• Twelve classic Airfix paintings, one for every month
• Nine artworks by Roy Cross (1964 to 1970) and three by Adam Tooby (2014 to 2024)
• Subjects include Concorde, the Spitfire Mk.Ia and Mk.IXc, the Avro Lancaster “G for George”, the Hawker Typhoon, the Apollo 11 Lunar Module, the WWI Mk.I tank, the SR-N4 hovercraft, the Fairey Rotodyne, the RNLI Shannon lifeboat and the Golden Hind
• Significant dates marked throughout the year, from first flights to famous actions

History

Airfix was founded in 1939 by Nicholas Kove, and released its first plastic kit, a 1:20 scale Ferguson tractor, in 1949. The Golden Hind followed in 1952 as the first construction kit proper, sold through Woolworths, with the first Spitfire kit arriving a year later. The paintings that sold those kits became famous in their own right. Roy Cross, who began painting for Airfix in 1964, produced the box art that generations of modellers remember, and nine of the twelve works in this calendar are his, painted between 1964 and 1970. The other three are by Adam Tooby, whose digital artwork carries the same tradition on today’s boxes. Fittingly, December’s painting is the Golden Hind, the kit that started it all.