One more thing to fit was the front bumper. This was decided in order to avoid nasty results from collisions with swimming pool edges (I will also be running the boat in pools).
This came in 2 parts, included in the Amati metal kit which required soldering together. I was not sure whether it could fit this larger model or that it would follow the bow curvatures. But some hand bending and minor trimming later, it seemed to fit nicely - lucky strike.
The pieces were put on the boat and spot soldered together before a full bead was laid. To avoid burning the wood, I dediced against silver soldering and went for soft soldering. Anyhow the part is not structural so not a biggie. The metal is stainless steel and took the 40/60 solder very well. I fluxed the parts before and used a micro torch with a soldering tip to apply lots of heat (stainless is a bad conductor) - worked wonders. I doubt this could be so easily done with an electrical soldering gun, though.
The solder bead was then sanded and the part polished with the Dremel and some cutting paste.
At this point I would like to thank Mayhem member UKMike for his Amati thread which actually was also my inspiration to try the Amati parts on the Aeronaut. Searchin for Amati pics in Google, was the reason I stumble across Mike's threa and basically how I discovered the Mayhem forum in the first place - Thanks mate..!!
Time to give something back - thus this thread.