Thanks for your opinion, Garret - I hope that you have actually went through the post, as the thing about scratches was explain there, in detail. If you just looked at the photos, you might reconsider.

BTW, I love vintage tractors from USSR! And old radios, too. My N900 body replacement will be, in fact, just plain Alu with "rails" from mill still visible, anodized colorless, to keep Alu look. I like it more that way. We expect that most people will prefer black, though.

The beauty of this project is that everyone will be able to get highly customized look out of it, and to some extent, features too (esp. in body repl. phase). Not to mention that g-code files that we released have nothing to do with sand paper (and no, it wasn't polished by sand paper for woodwork...), so I guess that you're free to make it *much* better. And contribute back your changes on git! The license is GPL3, by the way.

Arien Stokowiec