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 enduring fascination with flight. With last week’s 90th Anniversary of the first flight of the Supermarine Type 300 (Spitfire) still fresh in our minds, many people would probably agree that we can often be guilty of allowing the focus of our attentions to be a little UK mainland centric if we’re being honest, even if that’s understandable bearing in mind the rich subject matter available to us. Because that tends to be the case, we rarely direct our gaze to skies across the Irish Sea, however, in this current edition of Workbench, we’ll be attempting to put that right.

By way of marking next week’s St Patrick’s Day celebrations, our subject for this latest edition is the proud aviation heritage of the Irish Air Corps, using what is actually a fairly limited number of Airfix model kit livery options as our related illustrators, notwithstanding the fact that they happen to be rather eye-catching and extremely appealing ones. From the pioneering aviators making trans-Atlantic crossings, to the first jet aircraft operating out of Baldonnel Aerodrome, we’re looking at aviation through Irish eyes in this latest edition of Workbench.