There has been a lot of work put into this thing in order to get a reasonable compromise between functionality, metal content and price.

Many of the sacrifices made, notably the resin instead of metal Thompson and grenade launcher, and the lack of 'full' electronics, were made in order to give you metal shrouds, barrel vent and stock.

As far as the vent and stock solid resin would certainly cheapen the look of the piece and as far as metal shrouds, well it's a forgone conclusion that those are the single most desirable factor.

All these issues were juggled and prioritized, added and eliminated in order to keep the price reasonable. HCG did not want to make a solid resin gun for $200 or an all metal super 'hero' for $4000, The sub $1000 price is (we hope) what will make the HCG PR accessible to the majority of collectors.

I would probably only display this one and use my Airsoft for the drops. I've had bad things happen with resin in the past.

I think the simple explanation is that OD is preferred by some folks as it's the colour they perceive the PRs as being when viewing 'Aliens'.
Harry

So, brown bess was movie accurate. What was the deal with OD.

remember that the PR was only painted BB so that would appear to be OD under blue lighting.

So the film's every intention was for the USCM's PR to be OD, not BB.

For the record though this has never been stated or proved to be true anywhere at all, it's one of those things that's been discussed so much that it's turned into a 'fact' without any proof to back it up.