Quick question on chrome plating

I had the same problem with an auto im trying to build, i had a small white space on the part where i removed it from the sprue. I carefully scraped a thin piece off the remaining sprue and tacked it down with a dab of ca, then just using my finger i realy put pressure on it to "mold" it to the rest of the part. Just be carefull not to break the part your trying to glue the patch up chrome on. oh yeah then after it dried just take a sharp x-acto and trim it up to your liking..

tamiya plates the parts cos it has a signifant consumer base who dont paint their models. if you put the enzo together without paint its actually qhite nice. but not passable by our standards. i agree that sometimes id rather they gave us all white parts but anyhoo,

for my enzo i *very carefully* scraped away as little chroming as possible and then touched up with silver. looks OK unless you really scrutinise the part. tamiya has positioned all the seams as out of the way as possible, so things look OK. depends on how much effort you are prepared to put in, i took the sorta shortcut.

I honestly wish the makers would stop trying to do us any favours by giving us pre-coloured and pre-chromed parts, rather drop the straight runner in the box and drop the price by a few digits.

For Bike Models I have now stopped buying Tamiya and solely rely on Aoshima and the few Imai, Gunze, Revell, etc Kits I can lay my hands on.
Plus, Tamiya stopped marketing the Bikes I really like(i.e. everyday street bikes), Aoshima offers so much more with extra parts, etc(some kits got 2 engines/blocks, 2 tanks, 2 exhaust systems, 4 rims, PE parts, etc) and some of their kits got NO chrome on them.

I now use way more bleach for stripping chrome than the wife uses to clean the house.

Thanks for the replies, stripping it is.

I always strip it off about every one of the pieces and either paint or foil the parts myself. The kit stuff just looks to toyish to me.

hey i finished tamiyas enzo (my 2nd build aswell) and didnt want to repaint all the chrome (no ab!) so i just touched it up with tamiya silver (x-11?) it came out ok, but u could tell when looking closely, i tried to position the painted bit outta view. on the exhausts i think i remeber the tree marks were hiddeen. i remember thinking that they did an ok job of making the tree marks outta view....
b ut i just got taiya tyrell 6 wheel f1 racer, and i looked ast the chrome parts on that and im gonna strip it down and respray ( i have an ab now) coz i think itd look better than touching it up
and ill 2nd what MM said, that the chrome looks to shiny for kits....

The best result will be to strip it and than give it a new coat with Alclad II, SNJ or similar product.

You can touch it up to, but most likely it will be visible as it is hard to match the color just right.

IME, pre-chromed parts somewhat look wrong and too shiny for scale models.