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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 ...

James gets a group of thirteen-year-old children from Telford to build a life-size Airfix model of a Spitfire aircraft, complete with a model of himself as the pilot.