You had the foresight to walk away for a while and calm down, and that is much of the process of sorting things out so kudos to you Ken.
On the bright side, the Warspite dio did it's job, you learnt a lot and had fun building it, and others enjoyed it as well.
The staining might even add some weathering potential given all the snot and salt the sea throws at ships of all eras and types.
Bloomin weather, I looked at the hail we had and while it was insignificant down my way (Somerset) I wondered if it would get worse here, or in other places. I remember the ping pong ball sized hail we had in the early eighties in West Sussex. It trashed our neighbour's currugated plastic greenhouse.