This looks great Ello. Sorry if I am supposed to credit A Russell too, wasn't sure.
Yea, basically with shaders, you can add a diffuse so in other words:
Instead of faking chrome metallic static look on your diffuse, you could have your diffuse very cartoony with 1 shade of colour and then let the chrome shader do the rest

. From the picture, I can see the original diffuse underneath and the chrome effect ontop. Hehe I love shaders

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Maybe it's a little zoomed in

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