Victor Kislyi, who made a fortune from the online game World of Tanks, is funding the search for Second World War Spitfires believed to have been buried in Burma.
Already it was a tale of buried treasure, and of explorers heading into the jungles of a far-off land to see whether it was real or just a legend. Now, however, the story of the buried Spitfires of Burma has taken yet another extraordinary twist.
The man providing the financial backing to the Lincolnshire farmer who has devoted 16 years to quest for the Burma Spitfires can be revealed as a 36-year old from Belarus who made his fortune with an online game based on Second World War-style tank battles.
Both Corgi and Hobby Master have modelled the Ginger Lacy Spitfire Mk.XIV in 1/72 and 1/48 scale respectively. We should be looking at a 1/1 scale one of these when they crack the boxes open.
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