Natural,

How do you go about painting your reels?   What kind of primer do you use?  I have a Curado and want it black too....

are we sure that isn't the japanese citica? curados have larger septon grips and the size and shape of these look like citica E's. plus, the 6.3 to 1 gear ratio is more like our citica.

Is that the Skeet Leese model?

Seriously, don't you guys have your own board for comparing your woodies?  

Natural,

How do you go about painting your reels? What kind of primer do you use? I have a Curado and want it black too....

You don't have to prime them.  I started painting my 6 TD-Z's in November, and have just kept postponing finishing them due to my 90 other projects.  I'll give a tutorial soon...I've started on them again, but you must have an airbrush if you want it to look like a factory paint job.  I used House of Kolor ready-to-spray airbrush paints available at TCP Global.com.  There are ways to mask that make it easier I'll share when I have the time to do the whole tutorial.  I'm no expert though; there really isn't any info on this out there...and I kind of just went at it and will share my trials and tribulations.  

I want that maroon color paint, I think it looks bad, however I still like my brand new green e5! (so happy I bought it)

The 200E looks black from one perspective, greenish/gold from another, brown/green from another.

The paint on the reel is amazing.

i was gunna say when i took mine out of the box the first thing that came to my mind is "this thing is black". after moving to the basement

did i notice the reel is green

i dont think you meen that   PINK  NOOOOOOOOO

as long as it does what i want it can be hot pink in color.