Thanks for the encouragement.
Here small progress: all the parts of the tail colored and arranged with the sheet to be printed back , everything in Inkscape.
@cdavenport
Very huge model indeed! I hope that you don't encounter problems resizing my design so much. I never tested a vector file at this level and I don't know if there is some issue or some trick to avoid problem. Let me know how it turns out: I have so much to learn in this field.
Best, Nando