Big-O teaser

Haven't gotten a lot done on it yet, but here's the start of the Big-O cosplay project for this summer. I plan to finish the head over the next week, and I have a question to put forward to anyone out there: Do you think it would be more interesting to keep the gold color or paint it black. Technically from the show references the gold should be a very pure black color, but the gold is sort of growing on me so I'm tempted to take a bit of artistic license on the coloring...opinions?