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 ...

Flying enthusiasts with $263,000 to spare can now build their own Spitfire aircraft from a pack. The Supermarine Aircraft Mark 26 kit, a 90 per cent scale model of the iconic WWII fighter plane, costs ...

Sales of German tanks and ships have also outstripped those of the Allies. Analysis by the model maker Airfix has revealed that this year, German kits have made up around 55 per cent of the sales of ...

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. But the ...

There’s a powerful mythology connected to the Spitfire fighter plane. So powerful in fact that by the 1960s, when sales were at their peak, Airfix was shifting more than 350,000 injection-moulded ...

And right now, in a boat shed on the edge of the Hobart's River Derwent, a new version of an old warrior is being brought to life. Rod McNeill's love affair with the legendary Spitfire began as a ...

Hornby, which has struggled with supply-chain problems, is expected to report its first annual pre-tax profits in three years (Getty) For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your ...