Well the De Agostini "build your own" franchise has just released Part 1 of HMS Victory in Australia this week. I know this has been available for a long time in Europe and may have in fact finished it's subscription run by now, but I'm interested to hear of anyone who has collected these magazines/model parts and their opinions.

At over 100 issues this is an expensive undertaking, the model is over a metre long and clearly not for the faint of heart.

This is the link for the UK page of the publisher
http://www.deagostini.co.uk/shop/sub...he_hms_victory

I see they also do the Yamato, Akagi as well as AOS Santa Ana and Endeavour.