Is everyone in the UK a big WWII model fan?
Not any more it seems. For you, Tommy, the war is over.

@ His grace, I didn't know they still made metal meccano, so that is certainly good news. On the other hand they don't seem to make all the gears and things with which you could make stuff like a real working gearbox an inch long. (Well, you could according to Meccano.)

No, lets face it, the days when any self respecting British boy could knock up a radar system during a wet weekend out of a bicycle, his dad's string vest and next door's tin bath are over.