try a gloss black base, light silver flake over it, and then a candy or transparent red over it all
i use duplicolor paints mostly... their "metalspecks" line is like "scale flakes" and their "metalcast" line is just like candy.....
guess you guys don't care for hydraulics
here's more new stuff on the bench
56 nomad..... duplicolor "storm gray" with metalspecks silver top....
and i pulled apart an 80 elcamino promo too.... duplicolor metal specks blue with a "french blue" interior and bedcover