How many different issues did you get, and over what period of time.
Just wondering if the number of issues and postal costs for each issue end up more or less than just buying a whole ship kits and paying one shipping bill for another of the many kits available for the HMS Victory in similar scales.
The De Agostini kits look to be of the highest quality available and come in over time to give the builder a chance to work on each step as they are received, but since I am not in UK, I can only dream of building one.