Thanks for everyones replies - it would be great if you could get a colour swatch match of the paint on your chest, jmoore - I want to repaint mine as the previous Germanicon owner has really gone to town on it with a colour and stencilling that is just so wrong.....

Skiprat - its interesting what you say about the silver primer - my chest has two corner capping plates missing so I removed one to use as a pattern to get some made and found almost gloss silver paint underneath it.

If anyone is interested I'm looking at getting a batch of these capping plates made - punched and plated as the originals - even down to the punced countersunk holes.

If anyone thats interesed can let me know if they want any, and quantities, the more I can get done the cheaper they will be...