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An artist has saluted two painters who fired generations of youthful imaginations by creating art for Matchbox and Airfix ...
The Matchbox Road Museum showcases 50,000 pieces of Matchbox memorabilia, including the well-known miniature models, concept cars, one-offs for special events and even board games. Everett Marshall is ...
"Well, this happened..." read a recent Matchbox World post to Instagram, which shared photos of the new model inside and out of its box. "The Matchbox SpaceX Dragon Capsule has shipped." ...
Shi Ming, a 28-year-old engineer, lingered inside a toy shop for hours last Friday afternoon to buy more than 10 Matchbox toy cars. The most popular brand of scale model cars in the 1980s will ...
Each 125-model range contains around 100 new colour schemes or ‘decos’. Creating a new Matchbox model begins at least 18 months before its eventual release. Abe Lugo, Matchbox’s 38-year-old ...
and painted the aircraft images that adorned Matchbox model boxes. Roy Cross, who created box art for Airfix and had a family link to Smallford, Hertfordshire, died in 2024. Postlethwaite ...