COCKTAILS ON THE UPPER DECK!

 I'm currently off work with a stinker of a summer cold, so to keep me on an even keel in between sneezing fits I've been touching up my new but incomplete Nikko Fire Boat.

Ever the bodger I've looked for low-tech kitchen-drawer solutions to missing parts and hey presto, we have ...... operation cocktail stick [I prefer that to toothpick!]

They were very easy to cut to size and glue in position!

After testing a red sharpie and a red paint pen I opted for the paint pen and set to work painting the new wooden stick rails.

A little new chroming on the water canon and a bit of general spit and polish and we're ship shape.

What do you think?

I may add a thin coat of PVC glue to the new painted rails to give them a more plasticy look but that'd be icing on the cake. I could actually use icing! ha ha

Without a remote I can't test it's motor but for now the refurbed Fire Boat will be in dry dock.

As an aside, venturing into the attic yesterday I found one of the very first bits of toy bodging I ever did, probably 30+ years ago. Its a Beatles Corgi Yellow Sub periscope made from Fimo. It looks awful but it was a lot of Fab Four fun at the time! A true relic from my early thirties, I was amazed its still around.

Hope Tony's Fimo Dredd doesn't Judge it too harshly!