Jim, apologies, I didn't realise the extent of your ongoing present day collecting.

Full respect to you.

Reading what you have to say makes me so glad I'm not in your shoes, needing to protect promises
to your elderly source singers in this current day cultural climate of musical genre bending mixes and mash-ups.

Just to return to my analogy -

I now remember what I did with parts from the "Airfix" 'Nelson's HMS Victory' and 'Short Sunderland Flying Boat' kits...

The end result looked like some kind of bizarre nightmarish tree house construction;
but gluing it together kept me occupied and amused for a few nights after school when I was 11 years old...
Before I smashed it up, melted parts of it, and glued it back together to see what it might end up as.

Same now as the young kids in my family with their 'free' music studio software and sample pack kits.