I also saw the same thing and was about to post a thread asking about it when I saw yours. I'm thinking of completely graphite rubbing my Mark 85 and am going to do some tests to see if I did gloss white and either a gloss black or silver for the stars, if it'll give this effect once I clear coat the graphite finish, paint the red translucent paint, and put the final clear coat. For the gold, I'm just going to give it a brushed finish.