blinding powder

[blackswordshinobi]

dam tube i drop e in tube hummmmmm sorry guy's my grammer not that good i am working on it and agin sorry

 

[bljohnson]

I have also read that the small box Chris referred to was also used by local "police" types as a pepper spray.

 

[Cryozombie]

Himura, yeah, that's a pretty standard construction method. The painting is not to make them pretty, or easily hidden, or anything like that, but to add a little more structural integrity to the shell, making it less likely to break until you want it to.

Yeah you beat me to this, I was going to say I didn't think they were painted, so much as coated with a hard lacquer designed to make them less brittle.