Well, I didn't want a perfect paint job with everything Black and looking like it just came off the assembly line, Nor do I have the skills to weather it with paint. So thinking back to 1977 when some poor guy was sitting at a work bench building several every these props everyday, He really didn't have time to make it perfect. More of a good enough thought to it, and the cat is grey.
The grip is still irking me though.......