Sep 132012
A mix of Alclad clearcoat and gold dye from a specialist auto paint shop applied over the Alclad chrome (on the left side of the fuselage from the canopy through the central fuselage section) seems to just about do the trick:
It’s still not perfect, but some tinkering both with the chrome undercoat (as previously mentioned, it was pretty slapdash) and the yellow/red/gold dye, should dial it in. This would finally allow me to make a large-scale Project Pluto model that would really look right. Ummm… anyone want one?