Firstly I agree that My dash looks god damn amazing however Blert, its actually a metallic highly laquered silver finish. Looks much better in the flesh.
Stripping the dash out takes about 30 mins the first time you do it, then it only takes 10 mins once you know how. The harder bit is removing all the switches / dials from the back of the panels. Once this was done I took the panels to my spray guy.
He said it took him about 2-3 hours to prepare the panels, then he primed them / base coat which dries quickly. Then Sprayed Silver and several coats of laquer.
I dropped them off at 8:00am one morning and picked them up 17:30 that night and re-fitted them. so cost me 10 mins of stripping out, a day with panels at body shop, 10 mins putting back in all for £120