Featured Thruxton Paint Or Polished...???

Difficult to say without seeing it in situ.

 

That's a really nice fairing, looks to be made to a very high standard.

 

I'll be interested to see it!

 

In answer to your question, leave the aluminium fairing as it is, don't paint it. It looks to be very high quality and is certainly impressive in the pics. You don't see many like that, at least not over here. If you paint it then you may as well have had it made in fibreglass or some such. You want to be able to admire it each time you take the bike out and have other bikers look on in envy..as I am already. If it was black I wouldn't give it much more than second glance because I've seen them before and assume they're plastic.
If anyone disagrees, ignore them

 

No it isn't

 

Have to see it on the bike first.

 

No.

 

+1 on beerkat's posts

 

No paint required

 

Yeah, the polished ally is nice but I don't think it goes with the rest of the bike.

 

Leave it for a while.....see how you like it....once painted its hard to go back.

Looks stunning.

 

Polished Aluminium can look the dogs but it's quite high maintenance to keep it that way, just don't even consider laquer coating. After seeing the tank I'd agree with your choice of colour match, plus a good paint/laquered finish will be more resilient and far less work than a polished finish.

 

I would have a high quality paint job to my liking. The Ali Fairing is a part of the build history not the final finish