roadkill46
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Hopefully everyone can post how they do it here. Here is how I do mine:
1. Take off or tape everything that you don't want painted. Use blue painters tape, works like a charm.
2. if you want to paint your scope, measure how tall the numbers are on the turrets or the variable ring and cut a strip of tape to cover that.
3. AR innerds and bolt actions can be packed with napkins to keep the paint out of the operating areas.
4. Tape or shove a napkin into the muzzle end of the barrel
5. i don't paint grips, some grips are sticky and the paint has a hard time adhering to these.
6. clean the entire gun with acetone/brake cleaner/etc, no oil is allowed on the gun
7. spray your base coat. i use krylon, whatever color. ensure that you get all areas and give it 2 light coats to cover.
8. i like to wait at least 2 hours to let the paint semi cure. it says 20 minutes and they are correct but i am a little anal.
9. i then take grey primer and make several 4-6 inch bands all the way around the gun about 3-4 inches apart. you will have a barber pole affect.
10. go gather some native grass, branches, leaves, stencil, whatever you want. you do want fresh leaves every time though cause the load up with paint.
11. i like to hold the vegetation about 1/2 inch away from what i am painting and spray light to medium back and forth and up and down so that you are spraying through the vegies.
12. change your veggies frequently so they don't load up and blotch your paint job
13. start your third color if you want a 3rd. do the same thing. same on your 4th or 5th or 100th color.
14. once everything is dry, follow up with a light spraying through the veggies with matte black. this will produce a shadow effect and it looks pretty cool.
15. after 24 hours i use the same brand of matte clear and give it 2 good coats. i then let dry for another 24 hours before use.
16. remember that when you paint, any corrosive type cleaner will take off the paint like brake cleaner, gunscrubber,etc.
sponge painting:
1. same as above but you spray your paint into a shallow container and then blotch it onto the weapon. all the same procedures, except that you have a little more control.
Hope this explains. here are a couple of pics of my handiwork:
1. Take off or tape everything that you don't want painted. Use blue painters tape, works like a charm.
2. if you want to paint your scope, measure how tall the numbers are on the turrets or the variable ring and cut a strip of tape to cover that.
3. AR innerds and bolt actions can be packed with napkins to keep the paint out of the operating areas.
4. Tape or shove a napkin into the muzzle end of the barrel
5. i don't paint grips, some grips are sticky and the paint has a hard time adhering to these.
6. clean the entire gun with acetone/brake cleaner/etc, no oil is allowed on the gun
7. spray your base coat. i use krylon, whatever color. ensure that you get all areas and give it 2 light coats to cover.
8. i like to wait at least 2 hours to let the paint semi cure. it says 20 minutes and they are correct but i am a little anal.
9. i then take grey primer and make several 4-6 inch bands all the way around the gun about 3-4 inches apart. you will have a barber pole affect.
10. go gather some native grass, branches, leaves, stencil, whatever you want. you do want fresh leaves every time though cause the load up with paint.
11. i like to hold the vegetation about 1/2 inch away from what i am painting and spray light to medium back and forth and up and down so that you are spraying through the vegies.
12. change your veggies frequently so they don't load up and blotch your paint job
13. start your third color if you want a 3rd. do the same thing. same on your 4th or 5th or 100th color.
14. once everything is dry, follow up with a light spraying through the veggies with matte black. this will produce a shadow effect and it looks pretty cool.
15. after 24 hours i use the same brand of matte clear and give it 2 good coats. i then let dry for another 24 hours before use.
16. remember that when you paint, any corrosive type cleaner will take off the paint like brake cleaner, gunscrubber,etc.
sponge painting:
1. same as above but you spray your paint into a shallow container and then blotch it onto the weapon. all the same procedures, except that you have a little more control.
Hope this explains. here are a couple of pics of my handiwork: