Be sure what you’re getting. My only experience is with copper antifouling paint, which goes on copper-coloured but darkens to almost black over a season in the water. Copper, of course, is known for turning green. Some paints are ablative, i.e. very soft. They gradually wear away to expose more copper compound. (At the club I used to belong to, I spent several years on boat wash crew at haulout. The owners of boats with ablative paint would get very upset when the pressure washers would blast the paint off their hulls.) Moral—don’t leave your house out in the rain.
And as @Dr_Faustus says, most such paints are an environmental disaster.
Cool! We can read the actual book that H.F. Donnelly (the Victorian lad) was reading. Hayward was a prolific writer, but there is nothing to indicate that the book is a sequel. Thank you for that.
Ask any Anglophone medievalist what the biggest impediment is to better understanding of the Middle Ages, in any aspect, and the answer will usually be “The Bloody Victorians.”
Presumably, given the audience of the magazine, they are referring to this book…
