Nice plane daven. My aged reflexes no longer allow me to fly those hot planes any more. I get along with the 1/5 scale warbirds OK . Well, it's been more than a week and I have heard nothing back from Futaba as Zor predicted. I found a Benjamin Moore color named Metallic Silver which actually looks like a light gray and with a lot of imagination may look like aluminum. I could not wait any longer and used it to paint the plane that was ready for paint. Thank you all for your posts. They were all good ones and about the subject. A rare commodity on RCU. Dan.