Yes sir Alex, the stand will be skinned and stained. My lighting is going to be a 250 watt gmann mh. I was thinking of mixing with t5, but I think ill go pure mh. I'm a shimmer kind of guy. Again, I'm not sure when ill have this bad boy running, its been a while getting my equipment ready and the stand, as I mentioned earlier, my other hobby is but cheap. Hopefully ill have some new pics up for all you to look at thanks for looking. Any useful info and or advice is more then welcomed.