A man has supersized his childhood hobby of making model Airfix kits by buying a full size Spitfire - that he keeps in his back garden. Aviation worker Ian Fox, 55, bought the fibreglass replica ...

The model plane was a project that Ray Burden started in lockdown in 2020 A man from a Warwickshire village spent five years constructing a quarter scale model of a Spitfire fighter plane to honour ...

MODEL plane fans hoping to build a magazine’s Spitfire replica face paying out £1,200 over two years. Hachette Partwork tempt readers with a £1.99 first edition and £5.99 for the second. To complete ...

Like many other small boys Alan James’s childhood passion was to build aircraft models, inspired in his case by the ones he watched take off and land at the RAF base near his home in Reading. As a ...

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Former driving instructor Alan James shelled out £18,000 on three-year project A PLANE MAD flight buff has fulfilled his childhood dream of being a fighter pilot by building a working SPITFIRE in his ...