They do look a little nicer in person, but yeah I agree its pretty bland. I think i'm gonna buy a newwave thou, so shhhh, they look beautiful to me :D
The new Jp pro editions look nicer in person too, but then again the pictures look pretty ugly, so i dunno where that puts them. The plain jp's just look ugly fullstop.
I think the only "main" stream board with nice graphics are probably tabou. RRD used to look good, but the current boards look terrible.
Thou i do dig the graphics on the current generation of mistral boards.
But really don't see many boards down at the beach which make me go wow, that looks cool.
I think i wanna get a board with a custom graphic, something like this on the bottom, dunno about the top...
I got a friend who can probably paint it, just dunno wut paint to use, or what board i want painted yet, maybe the newwave when it gets a bit older. :D