Would you change the looks of this AR?

[JEVapa]

This is a good idea
Mr. JEVapa what on earth has happened to your avatar??

It's a blank stare

 

[TerryP]

It's a blank stare

I can tell you and I will get along just fine.

 

[HillsideDesolate]

It's a blank stare

#metoo

 

[gerhard1]

I'd change it to something like this.

But that's just me.

 

[JEVapa]

I'd change it to something like this.

But that's just me.

It would be difficult and costly and really the only thing retained would be the air around it....better off starting a new xm177 project

 

[O4L]

I've been watching videos on painting an AR and found some methods I like. What do you guys think of these?



So easy a child can do it. Lol.

 

[El Pablo]

So easy a child can do it. Lol.

You’re screwed.

 

[O4L]

You’re screwed.

You know me too well.

Did you watch the dish soap video? I was surprised by the results.

 

[HoLeChit]

I've been watching videos on painting an AR and found some methods I like. What do you guys think of these?



So easy a child can do it. Lol.

I tried the dish soap idea out the other day. I honestly really like it, you can make some neat looking stuff. But… it’s really mostly a micro pattern, rather than macro. The problem with that is if it’s too dark or too light of a micropattern then you’re just gonna look like a blob of whatever the prevailing color is at a distance. So that’s where macro patterns come in.

With the rifle I’ll attach a picture of later, I did a macro pattern (big fat stripes), followed by a dish soap paint job laid out on top.
I think if I were to do it again, I would do two perpendicular dish soap jobs on top of each other, with a macro (few big stripes) over the top of that with the dish soap paint job visible between the strips. I’m still torn on if I wanna try it again with the rifle I’m building, or just kinda strip the paint off this guy and try again.

 

[O4L]

I tried the dish soap idea out the other day. I honestly really like it, you can make some neat looking stuff. But… it’s really mostly a micro pattern, rather than macro. The problem with that is if it’s too dark or too light of a micropattern then you’re just gonna look like a blob of whatever the prevailing color is at a distance. So that’s where macro patterns come in.

With the rifle I’ll attach a picture of later, I did a macro pattern (big fat stripes), followed by a dish soap paint job laid out on top.
I think if I were to do it again, I would do two perpendicular dish soap jobs on top of each other, with a macro (few big stripes) over the top of that with the dish soap paint job visible between the strips. I’m still torn on if I wanna try it again with the rifle I’m building, or just kinda strip the paint off this guy and try again.

I was thinking of doing wide patterns of dish soap to make stripes instead of making stencils.

I'm not really concerned with having a camo look as much as having something that looks better than the weird camo Cerakote it has now.

I was going to just paint it solid FDE but I'm looking at other options.