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 ...

Aviation worker Ian Fox bought the fibreglass replica aircraft from a fellow enthusiast after the museum it was being displayed at closed. It now stands next to the busy A1122 at Salter's Lode between ...

He started off making Airfix kits of the legendary fighter ... Trips to museums inspired his love of the Spitfire and building models of it, with plastic and glue eventually being superseded ...