In June 2010, the day before Tankfest at Bovington, here in the UK, I was fortunate enough to purchase an original 2003 Mid Tiger through eBay.
The Tiger was almost completed, but the owner, rather than paint it, had polished all the aluminium to a near mirror finish, and painted the steel work gloss black, resulting a Tiger which looked like this:
The following day it made its début at Tankfest:
It looked a little out of place, gleaming in the sunshine as it did, especially with all the superb paint schemes around it but it still attracted a fair amount of positive comment from the public.
Adrian.