You know if the LE originally came with the blood splattered black armor and Stern offered the rust colored armor as a stately expensive option that matched the LE cabinetry to a T to elevate the LE to a higher level of refinement, everyone would be bitching the LE should have came with that in the first place too.

The rusted armor is unique to the LE and puts it a notch above the other models that will never have it and wouldn't even look right with it. It IS special, why can't people recognize that?

Be happy folks, remember it's just a toy. Different colored armor really doesn't make a lick of difference in the value of your pin if that's what your so concerned about. I think people just want what they don't have.

If it is so important to you just paint over your beautifully matched rust LE armor and make it black to make it look like every other pin out there then put your wet paint hand prints all over it.

...Or just bend over and buy Stern's ridiculously priced option and cry not, because it's exactly the same armor with an extra $1.00 of red paint on it.

Jeesh

My sympathy and apologies to LE owners that just don't get it, everyone seems to care so much about the value of their model so think about this, years from now a serious collector will value the LE the way it was meant to be and not with the black red spotted armor that everyone and his brother put on their pros and premiums.

The armor the LE came with is a unique part of what makes it THE Limited Edition model... remember that when your screwing it up.

Because that doesn't even deserve the Picard facepalm

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Dammit I meant to edit this double post with the one below

Seriously ozno consider painting your armor if you really want to change it that badly. Save yourself the $500.00 and spend it elseways. You don't need to be an artist to accomplish this.

If you spend enough time concentrating on that project you could probably find a way to make it look even better than the Stern option and own it. I for one would love to see someone be the trend setter in this regard. You know it is going to be done by someone eventually.

But be warned, there is no going back to the value you had in the original. If that concerns you - then don't.