a couple answers to questions:
It would be painted, but its too cold right now and i actually live in rochester so im limited to weekend work on her. i hadnt planned on getting on the road untill the spring but the weather has been descent and i couldnt pass up the Christmas specials at 4wd.com for tires. i have the paint picked out, probably omaha orange or something along one of those bright oranges 
i stayed with the straight six mostly cause i herd alot of good things about those torquey old motors and got a descent price on a factory reman for $1100 shipped. i wanted something that i could understand, and get together with out too many problems. I honostly dont know enough about motors to build one up myself and going chevy, i probably would have dumped quite a few dollars in to adaptors/tranny or whatever i decided. i probbaly get about 7mpg right now, but thats why i have a little s10 to get me around.
as for disk brakes, that would have been nice, but the kits i found were between 400-900$ an axle so for under 200$ i put in all new wheel cyclendars/shoes and when they dry they will lock up the 35"s which i was supprized (11" 4 wheel drum). wet, well thats another story and i use the clutch alot lol
as for the video quality, well not bad for driving and taping with a new camera, give the guy some credit. i also had to compress it down to 25MB cause that was the first free sites max on a yahoo search and i was lazy to find anything else.
i just put a new steering box in tonight which was the last thing in the steering i didnt actually replace, and it seems to feel alot tighter now. also got some nerf padding for the bars above my head, me and my buddy kept hitting them which sucked.
next besides paint, is a winch and maybe a locker or two, even though with those tires and mudding i do i probably dont need them.