Very nice ,good write up. ALMOST makes it sound easy. Good jobThanks
it was easy... I was just scared to paint that gun after all the money I spent on it. The first push of the paint button was the hardest part... Just do it!
Very nice ,good write up. ALMOST makes it sound easy. Good jobThanks
I posted this on another site a few months ago... thought I'd share here too.
I'm sure there is an easier way to do it, but here's how I did it.
1. after cleaning the stock, I painted the entire thing tan. I used some textured tan color from
my neighborhood Lowes,
2. I taped the entire thing with some blue painters tape that I had left over from when I did some
1b. after that coat dried I shot it again, I was painting over a black stock, so it took 2 coats to
cover it well.
painting around the house. I taped the barrel cover to the stock like it would be on the gun.
3. With a Sharpie marker, I found a picture on the internet of a camo pattern I liked and tried my
best to draw it on. I drew on both the black and green sections, and just shaded them in with the
marker so I could visualize what I was doing.
4. Once I had a pattern that I liked, I cut out the sections that I wanted to paint green with an
Exacto knife.
5. sprayed on 2 coats of green.
6. Once that dried I peeled off the remaining tape to see how it looked, pics below
7. I then taped the whole thing up again, and drew the black back on..
here's where I had a bit of trouble/confusion, I wanted the black to partially cover the tan and
butt up against the green, but with the blue painters tape I was using I couldn't see through the
tape to line up the edges, so I had to just guess. I got pretty close, and nobody would know the
difference if I didn't say anything, but every project like this has some flaw in it that only
you'll notice, this was mine.
8. cut out the sections to be painted black,
9. two coats of black.
10. remove the tape, admire your work!
11. I went back with some clear matte paint in an attempt to keep it from wearing to fast, we'll see
how it lasts.
- Here are a few pics I just happened to take at the Green and Tan only stage
Totally complete"
Here are the pics I used as inspiration for the pattern, you can tell by the 1st one that I really
liked that pattern.
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