Not all plain sailing, as I hoped to build a cat round this bod to hang in a small boat collection somewhere; but turns out the knockdown paint I bought for a pound a can is not all it seems. Far from the matt 'NATO Green' it appears on the tin, it does so as 'Kermit the Frog' gloss.
Clue was probably the tin featuring a ride-on lawnmower, of dubious use to NATO.*
Nonetheless it was an excuse to consign it to the bin, not really liking its proportions and having altered them for each prototype.
It did impress tho' by resisting all efforts to dismantle it for disposal: centuries from now it will be unearthed by robots, one asking what it was and another replying some loser's flying boat?
As Basil Fawlty said, however... Well that's cost me, hasn't it?
* Currently the UK does provide these ride-on lawnmowers in support of its allies.
