Paint, well for starters, the third time I knocked this antenna off it was eaten by the carpet monster, Ernie Ball super slinky E string and crazy glue to the rescue. Then the paint, I used salt to show some paint chips and so on, I know from past experience The white out floats take a hammering. The white out top surface looks odd against the the 72?73 float colours but as far as I can tell it's legit. Noe it seems to me maybe i should test it out but every battle ship built as a kid just keeled over on it;s side, Float plane maybe ???