Thanks for the reminder. Some of the marketing seems a bit less than accurate, so I put up a comment to give a bit more info about it. Kind of disorganized, but hopefully it’ll help.
Marked TK’s comment at Amazon as helpful. Definitely.
(Do we even know the light is anodized, rather than painted?)
$128.99 and FREE shipping! 
It claims to be in stock, just one. But it may arrive after Christmas. :person_facepalming:
Of course it’s anodized. We’ve all seen the one Tom baked, right? It’s his avatar pic. It has to be anodized to do that.
Is someone spreading FUD about the Q8 being painted?
Here’s my Q8 optic:
You can see that the LEDs are not centred perfectly. Is it OK or is it not?
Only you can answer that. Is the beam acceptable when you use the light?
^ They are not dead-centered, and this amount of error was in the prototypes too and appeared to be too difficult for Thorfire to improve. Since it did not seem to affect the beam at all as far as we could see, we gave this imperfection a go.
So officially, according to the Q8 team, it is ok. But from an OCD point of view it is annoying of course.
In none of the 3 Q8 I’ve currently here the LEDs are better centered, and I don’t care at all. No impact on the beam.
They look "ok" to me, slightly off. What I'd do would be pop out the bezel/lens/o-ring, pop out the driver, loosen up the 3 screws (assuming you got a rev 2), and re-tighten. I usually go with tightening the center one first, then the outer ones. Might help a little with the LED centering. At least by doing this, you can see it happening, so might help how to re-tighten and get the best centering.
I'd only be concerned if the LED centering rings don't appear to be fitting in the reflector holes properly - that's usually easily fixed by loosening and re-tightening.
For what you got, sometimes the LED's aren't perfectly centered from soldering, and if so, that can be corrected, but requires further dismantling - taking out the MCPCB, cleaning it up, and using a torch applying the heat underneath carefully, and reset the LED's positioning by melting the solder and either letting them seat on their own, or give them a little nudge.
Generally I've found rev 2's better centered than rev 1's.
No FUD, and no, I didn’t recall seeing Tom’s baked flashlight, which now that you mention it, I agree proves it’s anodizing.
I’m not paying that close attention given the volume of comments. Glad someone is.
I wondered because I often can’t tell the difference between type 2 anodizing and paint, on flashlights generally; both coatings seem fairly easily chipped.
First Q8 proto, pre logo, etc:
FUD? What is FUD (if it safe to say)?
Fear. Unbelief. Doubt.
O K. Thanks.
Thanks for the answers. 
The Q8 isn’t intended to be a thrower, so don’t worry about it.
OOPS! You’re right. I didn’t look it up. I was trying to go from memory. :person_facepalming: