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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Part-works: not such model pricing?

Build a Battleship website
Build a Battleship: Indy broadside

Everyone loves a part-work magazine. You know the ones, where you collect the set of something in 52 weekly parts, invariably with a cheap introductory offer and a free folder with issue two. The weekly Build a Battleship, offering fans of this sort of thing the chance to build a model of the battleship HMS Hood, could prove an expensive hobby, however, costing £830 to collect all the necessary bits and pieces, reports the Independent. "There are no comparable Hood models of this quality available," said publisher Hachette Partworks. For that price Monkey would expect a full-size one.

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