Airfix Supermarine Spitfire Mk 1a 1:24 Scale A12001 "Broadsword calling Danny Boy....Broadsword calling Danny Boy..." Airfix is written into the DNA of all British men and boys - Spitfires duelling with Messerschmitts over the English Channel; daring Commando raids behind enemy lines; Rommel"s tanks charging across the desert sand - it"s in our blood. An Airfix kit, a tube of glue (not for sniffing) and a few little pots of paint and every Sunday afternoon war movie or Commando Comic fantasy you ever had becomes real. So load your Tommy Gun or jump into your Spitfire cockpit and get ready for the best boy"s nostalgia trip you can buy! Tally ho, Biggles! In Summer 1940 all Europe lay crushed beneath the Nazi jackboot. All? No, not all! One small island, just off the northern coast of France, a land of freedom loving people held out against the goosestepping invader. But how would they resist the all-conquering Teutonic Blitzkrieg? Aircraft designing boffin RJ Mitchell had a few ideas and built them into what was to become one of the world"s most famous aeroplanes and the nemesis of Fatty Goering"s Luftwaffe - the Spitfire! Now you can join in the desperate dogfights over the English Channel with this cracking, and ENORMOUS, model!