We also hear that Airfix - legendary manufacturer of plastic model kits - went into administration last month. Cue memories of assembling 1:72 scale aircraft and vehicles, studious scrutiny of the instructions, the quasi-religious procedural aspects that you learned from others, my fingers spotted with green and brown paint, and my dad reminding me to "give the glue a proper surface to cling to" by scoring with a knife the surfaces that needed to be mated. Once you got really good at it, you'd be able to produce satisfyingly realistic versions of the real thing, and there'd be a real sense of achievement. It could take months at a time to build a model - but the pay-off was worth it.
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