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Cheers man! Really helpfull stuff from that thread "How to fuck up a good frame. The manual." hah - yeah I may have to reconsider. My frame is definitely not a cromovelato and my intuition is telling me to leave it alone and deal with it when I have money and time to do a full on restorium maximum. thanks to all the other users who replied also.
I'm not the best authority on this but I know that some old bikes were chromed all over the frames.
Whether or not the chromed surface underneath is as shiny as the stays is variable. I think on most cases where it is as shiny is for cromovelato type 'paintwork' where the frame is chrome plated all over and then has tinted clear coat applied to it. I'm fairly sure that this frame is not that (google cromovelato).
Often the chroming underneath the painted areas is duller than the on show sections.
Put well by @Scilly.Suffolk
It was tried on here on a somec with a less than desirable outcome.