Here's a small update. It doesn't look like much has happened but I have spent hours working on the shutters.
http://youtu.be/H2lLCjSkbPE
I wanted to see what the hood would look like polished so I shined up half of it and the rad. It came up pretty quickly with course rouge and I'm sure it would look kinda neat with some effort but I won't be polishing more... I don't think.lol I don't know if there are too many polished aluminum RC trucks out there? Probably for good reason.