Anybody ever paint their Smoker custom?

Have you seen Alton Brown's Kitchenaid? It has flames down the side of the motor housing.

Haven't heard of anyone painting it.

The paint on the CS Models is powdercoated.

Give it a shot and send me some digital pictures. Would be fun to see and show.

Smokin'

I had my CS 008 about 4 years before moving to Florida in 2001. After 1 year here, living a couple of blocks from the ocean, the 008 rusted so bad drastic measure were needed to save it. I took the door and hardware off and had everything sandblasted down to bare metal. Since the outside of the smoker never really gets hot I didn't even bother using high temp paint to paint it. Two coats of spray can primer and then, this may sound strange, two coats of spray can "stair and tread" paint. It's a rough textured paint used to keep stairs from getting slippery and dries to a kind of wrinkle finish. Anyway that was over a year ago and it still looks brand new. I say go for it but if you're going to paint flames why not paint some smoke too?