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I did the polish thing and I always said I wouldn't.Also dyed the parts black.When I painted the body I left the sides clear so the advertising would show with the polished chassis. . .

That's shiny!

Looks nice. I did something similar with a chassis I bought from Noony.
http://www.rc10talk.com/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=18809

Looking really nice

Now don't beat me up ,But I like this polished look over the gold.

Always like some thing new, rather than the norm!

There's a [an and bits on Fleabay chromed out!

Beautiful work.

Would the chassis easily get tarnish again??

After I polished it ,It left alot of fingerprints when handled. I then put on Mothers Mag and Aluminum Polish and the shine was even brighter and It leaves a protective coating. Fingerprints are almost non existent.

I did this to a worlds chassis around 8 years ago for a DS project. Now if only I could finish it...

i like restored tub's very nice job makes a lot more sense polishing/re-anodising then spending 250 on a new world's or powder coated chassis, ya need ya head read imho!

Beautiful work,but I like this polished look .

tub looks great

Anyone have some helpful hints to accomplish this? I don't think I could get the same results. Well, let me stop there and do some searching out here but think a How to Polish would be a good sticky!!!

The most common way is to use varying grits of sandpaper but I've never polished anything that way before. I just use different buffing wheels on a bench grinder. I wouldn't recommended that method for small or intricate parts though.