[johnnym]

Having scraped away at the paint, it seems to be in the following layers (outer first)

Red
Grey
Orange
Lt Grey
Dark Grey/ blue
Cream
Med grey

This seems like too many layers to be original. I attach a photo of the paint rubbed down to the 'dark grey/blue' layer. Could this be the original?


p.s. the plan is still to have it blasted- I have a local blaster that has a good track record.