Thanks. I was thinking of going with a silver to contrast against the black and blue, but the blue does look pretty good. I suppose now comes the question of visor tinting and vac-forming. Kind of bummed that technology hasn't evolved yet where a colored mirror coating is more affordable. I've googled and read just about every forum, opinion, and technique out there as to how to pull off a vac-formed mirror visor and it seems that a cost effective process is still ever elusive outside of of the dielectric deposition method.
I have hundreds of feet of window tint in silver and in sapphire blue and plan to put a theory to test once I build the vac-forming set up. I know window tint will crinkle and crack if heated. However, years ago I worked at a metallurgical testing laboratory and learned that by varying the temperature and timing to heat metals, the metal properties would change. Then cooling in different mediums (oil, water, air) did the same thing or reverted it back to its original properties. So I kind of want to test a theory with the window film and that is to slowly bring it up to temperature versus ramping it to 300 degrees quickly. Probably won't work, but since I have quite a bit of it, I plan to give it a go.
If anyone has tried this method already, please let me know so I can move on to the next theory. Well, as soon as I think of one at least.
I did take a small piece of .020 PETG scrap to see what silver rub n' buff would do, but that just obscured the view to much, so that's a no-go.
For now though, the plan will be to either die it blue and go the thin layered silver airbrush route or dye it smoke colored and just go with a more spec ops / black ops look since the majority of the armors color is black.