A rugby-mad dad and lad have spent more than 100 hours building a scale replica of their beloved club's stadium out of tiny pieces of plastic.

Phil Delamere, 42, and son Alfie, 10, spent four months painstakingly recreating the North Stand of rugby league side Warrington Wolves' Halliwell Jones stadium in fine detail.

Their sculpture goes into intricate detail, right down to a mosaic brick wall and statue outside the ground in honour the club's all-time leading try scorer, Brian Bevan.

Even the doors on the replica stand are numbered identical to their real-life counterparts at the home of the Super League giants.

And the official club store and car park is a dead ringer for its real life counterpart.

Phil, a railway engineer, said: "I didn't spend that long doing something for the doors to be wrong."

"I like to tinker and I like to mess and problem solve. There's no bigger problem than a two metre-long model of the stadium."

The father and son - lifelong fans of the club, nicknamed the Wire - have bonded over their shared love of rugby league.

But the passion project began after Alfie's grandad Des - Phil's dad - passed away in 2020, aged 59.

Des and Alfie had a shared love of model railways and Phil decided they could make one together in his memory.

But the project soon grew and they now have a model Costa Coffee built and a replica of the town's iconic Joseph Crosfields & Sons soap factory is next on the to do list.

All of which will be displayed on their Warrington-themed model railway in the garage of their house.

Phil and Alfie spent a fortnight drawing up plans for the model before getting to work on it, using techniques they learnt from YouTube videos along the way.

And they then used more than £200 worth of materials to make their masterpiece, which has even caught the eye of club officials.

Phil added: "When we started, it was a process, we needed to know how big it was before we did the mock up."

"It's amazing what you can learn, because I'd never done anything like this before. YouTube can be your best mate for something like this."

"My dad and Alfie had a train set in my shed and that was their thing, I left them to it, that was how they bonded. When my dad died, Alfie asked if he could recreate it."

"One of the things I wanted to teach him was that if you're going to do something, do it properly. Let's go above and beyond because if you do that in life, it will get noticed."

"I went to the rugby with my mum, dad, brother and grandad and now I go with my own family too, but I wanted to do more than that."

"We'd spend a few hours a night in the garage learning stuff. I said to him if we put the effort in, we can create magic, like the players do on the pitch."

"I probably spent more time gluing stuff together than anything else."

They used a sheet of MDF for the base of the stand before adding features such as floodlights using small pieces of plastic, which was glued onto the main structure.

The finished article - complete with fans in last season's replica kit - stands around two metres long.

And it even includes posters for the club's upcoming clash with rivals Wigan in Las Vegas and a memorial to tragic rugby league ace Rob Burrow, who died earlier this year after a brave battle with MND.

Phil added: "I wanted to timestamp it. We love rugby and we wanted to memorialise Rob Burrow on the stadium. I thought that was important."

"This will sit in my garage for a long time and hopefully my grandkids will benefit from it one day."

"I painted fans in last year's kit and some in the new kit for the 2025 season and put the Vegas poster on so it's set in time."

"I hadn't even thought of stuff like the floodlights at first. We'd just be sat in the ground together looking round, coming up with ideas on how we could create stuff. As well as recording the crowd for the speaker and MP3 player we built for the model."

"It's impressive. The stuff you can do is amazing. The stuff you can see is like the stuff I work with in real life but smaller."

"It's completely unique and that's what I like. Anyone can throw together a model railway, but nobody else has done this."

Phil shared some photos of the stadium online and officials invited the pair to the club's annual firework display and kit launch at the stadium, which was built in 2004.

Alfie said: "I think it is excellent. Rugby is a big part of our lives, we put a lot of effort in to it because of this."

"I have loved watching the model grow as we have built different sections."

"I am really surprised about all the attention we have got but happy that other people who love rugby love it."