I have so far put it in primer, but my talent doesn't stretch much further than that (and yeah... metallic silver sucks in an application sort of way), so I did the only sensible thing. Drop it off at someone's doorstop who is better at painting and run away screaming. My usual cop out answer, anyway.
I have some LEDs and some rather looking DIL switches to control the lighting necessary, looking forward to learning that in the meantime.