so...
yeah, they're coming with two different colors of zytel... black, and a kind of tan... "doughboy brown" or something like that. was originally called "coyote tan", but the color is perhaps not quite that.
micarta will be optional, and offered at a later time
why no pictures of the BK16 with FFG? because nobody as far as i know has taken a picture yet and shared it. we ARE the number source of information on these things after all.

we scoop them all. in theory

in practice, sometimes the guys go forth and show stuff to OTHER people before us guys. sniff. yeah, okay, *cry*, we can live with that.
KaBar's official photographs, be they catalog, web, or the materials sent to distributors (like Tomars), were pre made based on what they thought were the final prototypes. things change in today's fast moving world, but lead times for photography, studio time, and catalog production? sloooooowwwwwwwwww.
the laser etched stuff? haven't seen on in person yet myself. only a few photographs.
but seriously, when we all know, you will know

heck, sometimes we all know before Ethan knows