Another childhood icon falls

I have many fond memories of building models of battleships, tanks, and fighter aircraft in my mis-spent youth. One of my primary sources of kits was the British company, Airfix. According to a post at The Thin Man Returns", Airfix is no more:

That's Why I Hate The French

This is a tragedy:

Britain's last model-maker, Airfix, today went out of business as its parent manufacturer, Humbrol, called in the administrators. The company founded in 1949 has struggled in recent decades as TV and the Internet ate into the market.

They've been bought out twice before but the final nail in the coffin may have been driven by the bloody French [. . .]