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@HillyBen
Even if done by Roberts. No one here is drooling less because of a couple of chips on the chain stay. If you respray it it's a respray, It will never be NOS again. And never original paint again.
I see it like this. Original paint is another original component that tells others interested in the marque how it was exactly back in the day. Provides a guide for other people to respray/rebuild. I'd be much prouder/able to show off good/ex original paint than a mint respray.
In 30 years you'll see the sense. Like owning an orig paint Hetchins now.