This simple different wording would have probably made all crystal clear, and saved this whole (and other!) discussions, as well as my question.
I suppose that those dicussions lead to a clearer wording in LHTR and are one reason why submerging submarines had been moved to another step during ‘Conduct Combat’ starting from and including the Anniversary ruleset.
Did you try doing a closed auctions search on Ebay?
For the most part though the folks who end up with those things in the first place are ones who’d keep them. As opposed to a lot of the other types of convention exclusive items that will end up in the hands of resellers in the first place.
Your painting job is superb! But you messed up the Stuka, it wouldn’t have had invasion stripes. Those were for Allied aircraft that participated in D-day.
Oops! Sorry, I mistook your cross for stripes, sorry.