Well you see, the secret to brush painting bare metal is to only choose schemes that are not bare metal! Hence me doing 'Passion Wagon.'
To be fair, I've had moderate success using a sort of dry brushing technique with Mr Metal Color for smaller parts. That's what I'm using for the small NMF parts for this kit (the engine bearers etc...) Keep an eye on the WIP and I'll post a 'how to' soon. I even did the Airfix 1/72 P-51D using that technique, which came out OK, but for larger areas, I don't dare do it. There was a link showing how to do that technique on the internet, but it appears to have