Ralph,
Your boat looks great! Nice job.
For the dash, you could get a unique appearance with a carbon or silver carbon type of woven fabric.
something like this:
Fabric
or this:
L-SIM
I just did this last weekend on one of my dash (glove box) panels for my Tsunami. I still have a little more work left on it, but it looks fine. I think I will coat it with the signature finish to give it some UV protection.
Jim