The part of this job that clearly caused the most nerves was the gold color itself. The maker says that shade was what they worried over most, and the payoff is a batch of heatsinks with a reflective golden finish that, in the maker's own assessment, came out pretty even. The catch is that evenness is hard to judge on camera, which leaves some honest doubt about how uniform the tone really is in person.
The parts themselves are elongated extruded aluminum heatsinks. Each one has a flat mounting face on one side and rows of parallel fins across the other. Around the stack sit uncolored silver aluminum blocks, and the surroundings tell the rest of the story: protective foam packaging and plastic wrap nearby, a caliper resting by shipping labels and paperwork, and a blue crate holding Chinese-language newspapers and barcoded shipping documents.
A couple of details stand out to me. The maker notes that the camera really brings out the orange in the color, so the tone on screen may read warmer than the actual finish. Also, the pieces were separated right after filming, and the maker admits a posting lesson was learned, not on purpose, and has promised to handle finished parts with more care going forward. On the plus side, the maker agrees the anodizing came out nice and calls gold a good call.
What I find most interesting is that the maker turned this into a learning thread, asking experienced anodizers what problems usually show up on fins and edges and what to pay attention to during the process. Those are exactly the spots I would expect to be tricky on a finned profile, so the answers should be worth reading.