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You might think the days of spending the christmas holidays building a model plane are over, but the classic hobby is still alive. lockdowns and social media have fuelled a boom in sales, as john maguire reports. before you build a model aeroplane, the kit you use is built here in a factory in east sussex. it marks a return to uk production. molten plastic is pumped into a high—pressure press which contains an intricately detailed mould. what comes out and are then checked by eye are the frames known as sprews. they hold the parts ready to be removed and assembled. this is the 1:2a scale mk9...

Into a high—pressure press which contains an intricately detailed mould. what comes out, and are then checked by eye, are the frames known as sprews. they hold the parts ready to be removed and assembled. this is the 1:24 scale mk9 super marine spitfire — a new kit created by airfix and in painstaking detail. the spitfires were renowned for being incredibly well made. so some aircraft, this kind of effect of the wind is really pronounced. but actually, for spitfires, especially when they were newer, it wasn't quite so bad. chris, the designer, has been back to the drawing board. the drawin...