Airplane modeling requires obsessive attention to detail and a steady hand, but to build exact replicas in 1/3rd or 1/5th scale takes an entirely different skill set. Every component of the original has to be reproduced, only smaller. David Glen of Cambridge, England, spent 11 years constructing a 1/5th-scalernSupermarine Spitfire Mk. I. Now on display at the Royal Air Force Museum in London, his model is skinned with litho plate over a balsa core (left in bare metal to reveal the structure) and contains at least 19,000 tiny rivets.
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