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SWLSspit – by Chris Bishop A man who made Airfix model Spitfire kits as a boy now has a full size one – in his garden. Aviation worker Ian Fox bought the fibreglass replica aircraft from a fellow enthusiast after the museum it was being displayed at closed. Ian has got a full-sized iconic Spitfire in his front garden – along with two in his shed, plus a US Navy dive bomber. It now stands next to the busy A1122 at Salter’s Lode, between Downham Market and Wisbech in Norfolk. The RAF’s Spitfires helped defeat the Luftwaffe in 1940, in…