Terry, thanks for the picture and information. Nice looking P-47!!

Dustin, losing the metal effect is what I thought might happen but I thought I would ask to see what others had done. I guess I will need to keep it out of the rain also; my puppy dog drooled on the tailcone yesterday and made some of the chalk smear a little.

I only sanded the Flite Metal on the tail cone with one of the red 3M pads to dull it which sounds like it is not nearly fine enough to obtain the best metal effect. What kind of progression do you recommend for sandpaper grit in order to work your way to 1000 grit?

i.e. start at 320, then use 600 then 800 and finish with 1000, etc. Something like this?

Maybe you can give me a quick tutorial at Heart of Ohio? I will be there Thursday through Sunday. Look forward to seeing you there. Thanks again for the help, Gary