What made you decide to paint the head and hands gold?

And there is a G1 Nemesis Prime. Well, he was never named but close enough... in G1 #1 we saw this Decepticon leading the Decepticon boarding party into the Ark:


Personally if I had a G1 Prime junker and felt the urge to make him an evil Prime, I'd paint him these colours. But maybe that's just me.