AnemicOak,
Great shot of what yours looks like. Sure looks as if your case simply has the color squirted on. On my calibrated display the color looks red (a cool red if ya ask me

) and a greyish body color under it.
And the back looks just awful (sorry

) To me this all deserves some sort of book credit ($20 or whatever) once the bookstore is in-place and online. I say that because there is no reason for such a CHEAP job. Not from a device touted for so freaking long as vastly superior to the competition.
It's s shame for so many people trusting in what they were told only to run into such an obviously cut corner like this. Better a Black or white case than one with blistering, flaking, thin, misapplied paint when you were all told it was NOT a painted case.
BTW, yours seems to show it's not only the blue case with the issue. And as for the shot above yours (NOTE: RichieRich apparently removed his image, wonder why?) with the well painted battery door. A simple scratch test of that door would show how deep the color is below the surface, but doing that might cause probs if returning/exchanging the device. So what would a person with a blue case do...sure would be great if that one was at least blue all the way through...
Astak lost a lot of business due to this fiasco, hopefully they get the next batch right. I mean the factor is building to Astak's spec, right? At least that was what BobbieB kept implying/stating in the "huge thread" for over a year.