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 ... The V6 engine means that ...

His model of the Supermarine Spitfire, the vanguard of the British RAF during the Second World War, recreates the look of those early model kits but substitutes 3D printed or laser cut components ...

The first, designated as F36/34, resulted in the Hawker Hurricane, while the second, called F10/35, created the Supermarine Spitfire. The Rolls-Royce Merlin engine became the perfect fit ...

We may all have glued together a plastic kit of a Spitfire or a Mustang ... [mayhugh1]’s quarter-scale model of a vintage Rolls-Royce Merlin V12 piston aero engine. This was the power plant ...

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 ...

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 ...

Analysis by the model maker Airfix has ... "Sales of German kits have really started to grow in the last ten years. In the UK, sales of the Spitfire – with around 45,000 kits sold – only ...