This is exactly how I feel. I see lots of colored powder on Stern games that looks cool, but when I speculate about how to color my lineup, or see examples online, I almost always think the colored armor looks cheap on the B/W stuff. I've done a bunch in black, a couple in a charcoal gray, etc.

Why did you guys switch to the veined powder? Frankly I liked both of the colors the version before that better, and the lack of texture worked on the wireforms.

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What color? I've been thinking about doing the ball scoops and wireforms in STTNG, but didn't know a color yet. Wanted to do Black Nickel plating, but that runs a ton more from Chestnut than powder.

Typically people get the bolts powdercoated to match the legs, otherwise they stand out no matter what other color they are.

To be honest, I've never liked the neon green trim on anything, much less SS. However, that coin door is sick! I've seen several versions of painted doors for this game, and that is the coolest by far. Did you do that yourself or have it done somewhere that could repeat it?

I don't know what it is, but I find that very few of the Bally/Williams games look good in colors. Tons of Sterns look great with various colors, but the older games don't for some reason. I've powder coated virtually all my games (except my old 80s stuff) and I've wanted to do colors. CV is the only B/W game I could bring to put color on, the others just don't look as good as the Sterns do for some reason. So I've ended up going with lots of black and a few in a gunmetal type of gray.

It's not my thing, but some guys like a screw hole in the curved part.

Has anyone powder coated a Safecracker? It's one of my last contemporary games untreated and it's feeling left out. I need ideas on colors. I do black for so many things, I'd like to do something else, but I usually feel even though colors look good on Stern era games, for some reason I tend not to like them on W/B era stuff. Not sure why, but I'd like to see anything someone has done with this title.