Yes Bluegmhtmonaro your right it is about time.Bugger it's a lot more work and time than I thought it was going to be,but very much worth the time.I can see why people restore the older ones.Less parts to clean and make look new again.Every single piece I have cleaned up,there's not one piece yet that I haven't spent time with. nathan_867 The paint was actually a colour that I had specially made up.From one of the bases that didn't see much sun.When Ty got his N.O.S VC-160 Mark III.It just showed that I couldn't have had a better match if we had tried any harder.Wouldn't have had a better match.So as to what colour it is I have no idea.As far as the cowl I'm assuming you mean the dress cowl.The cooling was painted as they do loose a lot of paint and just don't keep there blackness.The dress cowl was in fact not painted.As when I had a close look at it (especially the Mark III's cowl).They do have like fine fibres you can see in them,and I know if I painted them they would loose that look. I'm not sure what they are made of as they aren't plastic and they aren't fibreglass.They must be some sort of carbon fibre (not sure) they do have a little weight to them.So I looked for a few minutes and came up with a plan.I first degreased them as they were dirty,then sanded the heck out out of them to remove those deep scratches,marks etc. Then due to sanding I had taken the shine of them.So to get that back I just coated them with some clear and you can see the results.Mind you they look better up close than in the pictures.It does take quite a lot of time to do this,but the finnish product is well worth it.

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