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Did they ever get the colours right such that one doesn't have to do "oil treatments" and such to get them to look correct?
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Fresh anodizing is dry and will have a different color than after it has been oiled.
It's not really an "oil treatment" for the color. Any anodized part on a gun will eventually get oil on it from handling or cleaning.
People want some perfect color, but IMO that's fairly unrealistic. We all know that there is a great deal of variation in how grey anodizing comes out. Particularly in small batches, not to mention individual peices take anno differently. Hell there is a lot of variation in vintage Colt or other anodizing, so to expect any small batch to meet some perfect ideal is really not always going to happen.