Quote Originally Posted by Simon Barden View Post
For colour there is always the spray option with a heritage cherry red tinted lacquer spray. You'll probably have to go to nitro lacquer for that as gettingtinted clear poly or acrylic is quite hard. Someone found a source of one of those types, but they aren't common. If you have a compressor and spray gun, you could probably mix your own poly or acrylic tinted lacquer though. Nitro spray cans aren't cheap, and it's quite a big body, so you'd probably need a couple of cans of the red and a couple of clear lacquer to go over the top. Spray enough coats of the red until the finish is deep/dark enough for you, then put protective clear lacquer over the top of that.
There is also the custom paint option and go for a candy in a water borne carrier finished off with either a water borne or 2k clear .