[Arran]

There are number of other things you could do, you could replace it with real veneer and marquetry, but they is a bit tedious if you haven't worked with veneer before. The quick and dirty way is to use tone spray and create stripes, but the wood underneath has no grain so you will have different shades of brown grainless wood instead of white grainless wood. Yet another method is to copy what John "badrestorer" did with a 37-610 on the other forum, he used acrylic paint and recreated a faux grain on the front panel. The stuff that used to be on these was a sort of large decal like they used to use on car dashboards in 1940s cars, it's a form of paint product, so to recreate it using paint isn't such a bad idea.
Regards
Arran