Good work Snarkypup, No hope for you now, this is a serious addiction!

Your bike looks great. See what you mean about keeping the "battle scars" that give a frame character, plus from the nicks and chips shown in the photos, none are that bad.

Not being sexist but you may have the answer on your dressing table. Clean out the rust from the base of the chips with the point of a metal nail file or similar and just touch in the exposed metal with CLEAR nail polish (the stuff that goes on bare nails or to give a gloss over coloured nails, if I understand my wife correctly). It's quite a tough finish and easy to touch in quickly at any time on new chips. I borrow my wife's clear stuff to coat over water slide decals, which are otherwise fragile.

That way you keep the character, have no mismatched colours and it's practically free.

If you can't find the brake hoods, will the black ones fit your new levers?

Good job, keep the photos coming!