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 ...

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 ...

It was a case of ‘box away!’ when this aircraft was unveiled at a museum on Sunday. The life-size model of a Spitfire had been put together using 6,500 Eggs For Soldiers cartons and took six weeks to ...

The wheels are real – cast-offs from an original Spitfire. So is the fully functional Perspex canopy. The old black dials in the cockpit are genuine too, straight out of brown boxes stamped Air ...

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 ...