In answer to your question, yes. The "chrome" is actually aluminum and is applied by a process called Vacuum Metalizing. Not going into that right now, but by now most of the visible trim will be starting to peel or chip. You can sand that surface and see what you have underneath it, You may need to remove that area of "chrome" under the paint to get a good surface. Once cleaned up, my go-to paint is SEM Trim Black from your auto parts store. Mask off the strips and apply light coats until you get the surface you want. I would redo the whole thing if it were me.
There is not much out there that is good and easy to redo the "chrome". So called chrome paint sticks look like what they are, aluminum paint, but I think there might be a new product that might work better. There has been many post on this and if you do a search, you might find them or perhaps someone will add a link. On a console I have, I just painted the whole thing with Trim Black to match the center stack I built for my car, but I chose not to install it, just keeping the mini console in the 4 speed car.
Geoff.
