Yup. It's a little heavy. I think he will have a bit if an issue holding it up but it looks great. My only gripe is that I wish it had a brushed met at look instead of a chrome mirror finish.
If you are cool with repainting it yourself, you could brush the metal yourself. All you need to do is get a big blob of blu tack on the end of a drill. turn the drill up, and attach the shield so it's facing up and decently centred. Then get some high grit(Maybe 2000 or 2500), and start sanding while the drill is turning.
That will brush it nicely.