brown dog Posted September 8, 2011 Report Share Posted September 8, 2011 Iteration One: Getting annoyed with handling a naked stainless tube, decided to have a go at painting my gat with a paint available as ‘sniper paint’ that appears to be some sort of enamel . First go. Early coats of sand: Then top finishing coats: Realised I’d got carried away (can’t fight more than 2 decades of indoctrination!) and I’d made my nice little civvy rifle too warry (I quite like the ‘look’ and got there out of habit, but it’s just not what the rifle is): ‘Too warry’ plus one or two new-boy painting glitches led me to strip a fair bit of the paint off and start again. Standby for iteration two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
247sniper Posted September 8, 2011 Report Share Posted September 8, 2011 That looks spot on fella, different but thats what makes it good, Might give it a go on one of my rifles one day Steve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brown dog Posted September 8, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 8, 2011 Steve it's changed since then... Iteration Two: 3 Coats of the colour paint (basically the last layer is a misting of the sand with olive to take the brightness off) and this time no ‘cam’ effect (muzzle brake & mag still have the first iteration's paint pattern). Then after a week’s drying, a couple of coats of clear matt acrylic (which seemed to soak into the matt enamel and produced a very hard finish –wondering if there was a bit of a fibreglass analogy going on) I realise my tatty scope tape rather spoils it(but I'm always going to use it as it stops little scratches on the scope body): Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronin Posted September 8, 2011 Report Share Posted September 8, 2011 Very pretty, you missed the knob and bolt shroud,,,, Like the look, you can do mine now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elwood Posted September 8, 2011 Report Share Posted September 8, 2011 Do the scope, I dare you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brown dog Posted September 8, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 8, 2011 Do the scope, I dare you Not a chance! It's a Brit issue MK2 with the disposal paperwork that makes it legal - that makes it as rare on the civ market as rocking horse sh't ...(£££s!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6mmBR Posted September 8, 2011 Report Share Posted September 8, 2011 Was the paint Krylon? Also what brand of clear coat did you use? Looks very good, you just now need to paint the stock Cheers Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJR Posted September 9, 2011 Report Share Posted September 9, 2011 Looks good but prefered the first one. How hard wearing do you think it will be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brown dog Posted September 9, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 9, 2011 Looks good but prefered the first one. How hard wearing do you think it will be? Yup, I'm afraid I did too; there's something atavistic about camming a rifle But I took a step back and asked myself why I'd done it; great for the 'stan but not for plinking Hence the 'civification'. Only time will tell on robustness - the acrylic layers soaking in changed the nature of it completely and it feels very solid (I'm under no illusion that it's duracoat or cerakote though!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJR Posted September 9, 2011 Report Share Posted September 9, 2011 Atavistic tendancies, what you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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