The stripped-down Lancaster bomber looks like the world’s largest Airfix kit.

Looking like the largest Airfix model you could possibly imagine, parts of a Second World War Lancaster bomber are laid-out in a hanger waiting to be assembled. But this is not a toy. The pieces of wing, fuselage, bombs, machine guns and propeller blades are all real.

The famous aircraft is three years into a ten-year restoration project at the Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre in East Kirkby.