When I surfed over to modelwarships.com I happened to bump into what the site describes as a new sponsor: http://www.u-boot.info/ .
Apparently it's a new German manufacturer specializing in WWI submarines. Its first product, it seems, is a cutaway WWI U-boat. On the basis of the photos I can't for the life of me figure out just what I'm looking at. It appears to have a great many laser-cut wood parts, and half of the hull certainly looks like injection-molded clear styrene. (I guess there is such a thing as clear resin, though.) The resulting model is pretty spectacular. The price is 300+ Euros. Looks like it's worth checking out.
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