I have both a black refractor and a white one.
The white one is more impressive yeah the Borge stands out a mile, where the black Helois Skywatcher,,,just fades into the night. The meade LX is classic blue,,, and I find I can never take my mates big orange reflector serious... even though they top scopes...lol.
I do how ever, invest in a pack of those little glow sticks that they sell in the fishing stores, they tiny and made to clip on lines at night, so you can see the bites, well they tops for marking out tripod legs, tips and ends of scopes,... etc...
but what I'd love to do is Chrome my big 6inch refractor...lol... I saw a dob, with a fake chrome tube a few years back... everyone just stood and stared at it for ages at ScopeX... loooked like an Apolo launch vehicle, then some twit took some tinfoil from the kitchen and made a cone for the top... and all hell broke loose...lol
Tony