Model kits first appeared in the 1930s and became increasingly popular in the 1950s. Today almost any prototype car, lorry, train. plane or shop can be found as a plastic kit.

A 1:24-scale plastic kit will cost you around £100 - plus glue and paints. Mr Fox declined to say what he paid for his aircraft - or what he expects the build to cost - let alone completing the ...

He showed a plastic model of a United States P3 patrol plane when he met a U.S. ambassador and stayed up all night assembling a Russian aircraft carrier when the Russian Minister of Defense ...