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OK, so I've mentioned this already (and so have a few other folks), but the "new" Tanker Gray on the NMFSH's is not the same as the "old" on the TGLB and Swamp Rat Rucki. 
Not necessarily that this is a bad thing, but it is quite a bit different, and it would have been nice to know ahead of time.
On my CGNMFSH, the "new" Tanker is much darker, and in my humble opinion, not really very gray at all. :foot: On mine, the closest color I can come up to say what it looks like is somewhere between OD and brown. At first, I thought it was the unnatural indoor lighting. However, I've had it outside in the full sun today and it still doesn't look like any shade of gray I've ever seen (fwiw, my wife and dad agree). The other odd thing is the pearlescent flecks I'm seeing in mine. This coating has a lot of green, purple, pink, and blue sparkly reflections in it out in the sun (no, I wasn't drunk...). My wife muttered something under her breath about unicorns!
It reminds me very much of some of the pearlescent automotive paints I've seen (it would be interesting to get a clear-coat over this and see how it looks), and the flat spine in between the handle slabs really show a lot of it near the edges. I tried today, and it was impossible to get this pearlescence to show up well enough to see in a picture (the flecks are really small).
Here is a picture (not mine) which was posted in the NMFSH pics thread that shows the new and old Tanker Gray together.
(photo courtesy of 2dead)
You can easily see the difference here. On a calibrated monitor, you can see a brownish tint near the ricasso of his CGNMFSH. It is not that this new color is necessarily bad, it is just quite a bit different and doesn't look as good with my yellow and black scales as the old color would have (of course, this is my opinion and is subjective). Given the difference, I may just go ahead and strip my coated model and give it a nice satin finish with some scotch brite and actually use it (seems like a perfect job for the "very fine" blue 1"x30" belt I just got...). 
If mine actually looked dark gray like it does in the pic I took below (while drunk, btw), I don't think I would care so much, but it has a much browner, rainbow sparkly look in hand. I just don't know what to think about it.
Anyway, I haven't called the shop yet to ask them about this (I'm not even sure what I'm going to do yet), but I am curious if any of the Busse folks have some info that they'd like to share here. I'm just curious why the change? What do other folks who got this new Tanker Gray color think? I'm just curious if I'm alone in this, or if other are seeing this color the same way mine looks? TIA!
PS - I am LOVING these NMFSH's!!! The fusion grips are a LOT more comfortable than I had expected! They fit my hands quite well. I'm a fan of the 5/16" stock with the full-flat grind too! Great design!!!
Not necessarily that this is a bad thing, but it is quite a bit different, and it would have been nice to know ahead of time. On my CGNMFSH, the "new" Tanker is much darker, and in my humble opinion, not really very gray at all. :foot: On mine, the closest color I can come up to say what it looks like is somewhere between OD and brown. At first, I thought it was the unnatural indoor lighting. However, I've had it outside in the full sun today and it still doesn't look like any shade of gray I've ever seen (fwiw, my wife and dad agree). The other odd thing is the pearlescent flecks I'm seeing in mine. This coating has a lot of green, purple, pink, and blue sparkly reflections in it out in the sun (no, I wasn't drunk...). My wife muttered something under her breath about unicorns!
It reminds me very much of some of the pearlescent automotive paints I've seen (it would be interesting to get a clear-coat over this and see how it looks), and the flat spine in between the handle slabs really show a lot of it near the edges. I tried today, and it was impossible to get this pearlescence to show up well enough to see in a picture (the flecks are really small).Here is a picture (not mine) which was posted in the NMFSH pics thread that shows the new and old Tanker Gray together.
(photo courtesy of 2dead)
You can easily see the difference here. On a calibrated monitor, you can see a brownish tint near the ricasso of his CGNMFSH. It is not that this new color is necessarily bad, it is just quite a bit different and doesn't look as good with my yellow and black scales as the old color would have (of course, this is my opinion and is subjective). Given the difference, I may just go ahead and strip my coated model and give it a nice satin finish with some scotch brite and actually use it (seems like a perfect job for the "very fine" blue 1"x30" belt I just got...).
If mine actually looked dark gray like it does in the pic I took below (while drunk, btw), I don't think I would care so much, but it has a much browner, rainbow sparkly look in hand. I just don't know what to think about it.
Anyway, I haven't called the shop yet to ask them about this (I'm not even sure what I'm going to do yet), but I am curious if any of the Busse folks have some info that they'd like to share here. I'm just curious why the change? What do other folks who got this new Tanker Gray color think? I'm just curious if I'm alone in this, or if other are seeing this color the same way mine looks? TIA!
PS - I am LOVING these NMFSH's!!! The fusion grips are a LOT more comfortable than I had expected! They fit my hands quite well. I'm a fan of the 5/16" stock with the full-flat grind too! Great design!!!
