Originally posted by séamuis 
should we start some sort of black spotmatic club? I was unaware that having one was really worth bragging over, but I have a couple of black ones. plus a black SV. they certainly are works of art, ill say that much.
Oh yeah, there are plenty of brag posts with black ones. People showing off their black ones with all kinds of camera porn. I haven't really made up my mind about brassing as yet. Part of me wants to cover it up and make this camera look all shiny new but then again I kind of like a camera that looks like it's been used a little too sometimes. It's a bit like finding a really old Barbie in the thrift bins. Some Barbie collectors are total purists, won't touch a hair or the makeup paint to fix it even when there almost isn't any. Other people they make a game out of restoring an old Barbie to it's former glory.
I'm usually somewhere between. It really depends on how bad it is when I find her. I can't quite stand leaving a doll totally bald but a few hair plugs missing may not be a total disaster either. I found a 1966 Color Magic redhead about a year ago. They are very rare. In the box, mint, $1200-1400 is not uncommon. Played with it varies, but still if I had this head on a proper vintage CM body she'd go for a couple hundred bucks probably.
Right now she's kind of a hybrid. Her one leg was completely gone and her torso was messed up so I ditched it and got her a repro body that matched for now. (I still mean to find her a CM body but they are hard to come by in good condition.) I did fill a few plugs because they were in the front where it showed, but I did it with an old Barbie wig I had so it matched right. She had fairly good paint though except for a bit of the eye lid rim paint was gone so I left her alone that way. Best of both worlds kind of...
I suspect I'll do the same here. I'll likely leave the brassing and just redo the leather and the seals and clean the body up a bit. I'd like to do a custom leather on this one I think, maybe a neat snakeskin. I'll have to think about it a bit first though. I'll want a darker skin I think with some iridescence. I'm not even sure if the camera leather place online carries what I want. Might have to hunt around a bit and cut it myself.
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