I too massively prefer the older normal chequering to the newer fish-scale style.

I know that shouldn't matter, but it does somehow on a gun marketed significantly on its looks.

If I ever got an AA (I do have a Jackal if that counts), I think it would be an early TX200. But I do quite like the PS. I like Airsporters (early ones) and HW77s (esp. early ones) and the PS is like the child that happened when an Airsporter and a 77 got rather too friendly one night, with a dose of added Venom in the stock design.