Terry

Nice work there.... and also to add, this is the perfect prop for those starting out in prop/replica making.

My advice would be to go to your local car parts shop and look for a nice gun metal colour (not necassarally called gun metal, but one thats looks like gun metal).

I've heard also that a 'splash' of silver just before the gun metal colour has dried completely works well. When I say splash, I mean a very fine mist of the silver on top of the already sprayed, but not completely dried top coat.

A good tip also is to polish each DRY coat with a 'dusting' polishing cloth, you know, those yellow ones. This will give a good finish.

Bottom line here, if you give the paint job a good foundation i.e. rubdown with a fine wet/dry paper followed by a couple of coats of undercoat, the top coat won't peel off after handling a few times.