Firstly, thanks to Aussietrev, dodegy (damo) and NormK for their advice. Your experience in these matters is much appreciated and has helped me a lot.

Assembly was a bit of a disaster for the finish but I was able to mostly clean it up. Quick-'n'-not-so-dirty resprays of some 'chrome' and hammertone blue- clean, slight sand, one topcoat only came up solid and fine. Hmmm, overthought (and oversprayed it seems) before. Lesson learnt!

Note in the below the before model has different details and the steering reversed from what it should be.

A gross waste of hammertone blue perhaps? Well I think it looks much better...and the most important thing is my daughter loves it! grin
You may laugh...now!
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Quick-'n'-not-so-dirty repainted deck and brake
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Probably last thing to do is paint the hinge covers black. The extended handle is actually the etch primer alone and I think I'll leave it that way, it looks good, the topcoat was soft and came off way too easily. Also, forgot to paint the handle extension clamp so it remains (mostly) chrome.
My daughter insisted on a glow-in-the-dark fluoro-yellow grip strip. That'll teach me to take her to Bunnings!lol
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Patrick