WATCHDOG: Push the boat out - and spend a fortune.(Features)

From: Birmingham Evening Mail (England) | Date: January 27, 2003 | Copyright information

Byline: CATHERINE HENDRICK Consumer Editor

IT'S enough to send shivers down anyone's timbers.

Thousands of people are going overboard for a weekly magazine which builds into a step-by-step model of Admiral Nelson's most famous battleship.

But many may not realise that to finish the wooden copy of HMS Victory they will have to splash out a staggering pounds 423.75 and it will take more than two years to complete!

Del Prado, the Spanish firm behind the kit, fails to explain in its first issue that the model is divided into 100 parts over 25 months.

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