This scan is from the back of Andy Leonard's most excellent book, "Basics of R/C Model Aircraft Design"

Notice the yellow airplane that is pictured in the 3rd from the top on the right side of the page?

It's a canard. If you were to scratch build a slightly different looking fuselage (lose that "rear looking" window layout for example) and place a necessarily small rudder on the sucker, would it look backward enough then to fake out the public?