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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

LONDON – A rare two-seat version of the Spitfire fighter, the plane that earned a nation's gratitude in the Battle of Britain, may fetch a record price in an auction this month. This Spitfire is ...

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 ...

It's one thing to build a model airplane as a kid, but to recreate an entire World War II fighter plane (that flies!) piece by piece? That's some real DIY magic. When Martin Phillips, an English tool ...

A pensioner devoted five years to constructing a replica model of a Spitfire fighter plane, which now takes pride of place in his village garden. Ray Burden, 75, meticulously crafted the stunning ...

It used to be that if you wanted to make a nice scale model of an airplane, you’d be building the frame out of thin balsa ribs and covering it all up with tissue paper. Which incidentally was more or ...

A man from a Warwickshire village spent five years constructing a quarter scale model of a Spitfire fighter plane to honour veterans. Ray Burden built the plane out of plywood, using aircraft plans ...