Gold and other precious metal plating is specially ordered for a LOT more money than the gun is worth. If you had some leader of a country or terrorist group, they may spend the money on something like that, but usually they're in kind of a weapon black color. I may throw in a special skin for some weapons if we have special game modes-- for instance, if we had any special arena game modes, we can have Desert Eagles with different kinds of skins. It's an idea, but not on the front of our list of things to do. To add those special skins to our normal weapons loadout, would mean charging more money for the handgun just for it to look pretty.. not really worth the extra coding effort at this point. Maybe towards the very end if we feel we can hold off the release of 3.0 for certain kinds of eye candy.. To summarize, don't hold your breath /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif