I agree, it's actually very hard to define a guns 'look'.
Some of the ones I have done have been hated (aztec etc. hehehe)
I e-mailed you about it months and months ago after I posted some pics of my manik-e-mag and you said you liked it
If you look at a later image of the manik-e-mag..
You can see where with the X-mag body you could mill into the inner 'barrel tube' like with the Angel body AND have cut throughs to the valve at the back like the Timmy Ripper (love it BTW! I'm thinking about getting one or an Ironman...)
I'm over at AGDE to hopefully finish off my gun this weekend, and we could discuss it again. Maybe if you want to e-mail me a phone number we could drop you a line?
It would be a gorgeous gun to do it on, and think the ripper look would work well on the extreme because you can mill all of the body height (you don't have to worry about the bottom tubes as per the angel) and because you could have cut outs to the inner valve/tube also
(aztec etc. hehehe)