I just finished building my last lower, so I started painting today. I wanted to try out my pattern, so I painted a couple of magazines and my scope first. What do you guys think?

 

The scope:

 

 

The mags:

 

 

I'm going to let the paint dry for a couple of days to see what the final shades and tones look like but so far I like the results

 

 

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looks pretty cool.  also looks very tedious to do lol

Thanks - it's actually real easy...

 

1) Prep the surface by degreasing everything

2) spray two or three very light coats of khaki

3) tiger stripe with Sand and Earth Brown

4) using a natural sea sponge dab on a random pattern of Black, Coyote, Tan, Sand, and Woodland Green, and Earth Brown

 

Each magazine took about 15-20 mins and the scope took about 35 mins

 

 

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It looks great. For camo it's perfect, for a fun gun it may be a tiny bit dark, but that's just personal preference.

 

Edit: I'm talking about the scope. It does look very detailed.

It looks great. For camo it's perfect, for a fun gun it may be a tiny bit dark, but that's just personal preference.

 

Edit: I'm talking about the scope. It does look very detailed.

Yeah - I was thinking that I may go back over the scope with some more dabs of Sand and Woodland Green. I wanted to let the paint set to see where it's at before doing that though

 

 

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Ummm....pictures of the rifle please?

Ummm....pictures of the rifle please?

 

I was going to wait until I got the full paint job finished before posting a picture of the full project. The plan was to start on the rifle yesterday evening but, after painting another magazine to test my pattern, I decided that the humidity is just too high for spray paint  One thing that I noticed while doing that magazine is that Aervoe paint (Coyote Brown in this case) seems to be much more humidity sensitive than Krylon and Rustoleum and stayed tacky for quite a long time, despite being very lightly applied (3 very light base coats with about 5 minutes between each pass). This is compared to how the paints reacted on Monday when the humidity was relatively low and the paints all seemed to dry at about the same rate.

 

Hopefully, the humidity will drop some by the weekend and I can get the gun painted and pictures posted. 

Stand 10ft back. Odds are it will just look like one color from any reasonable distance.

 

But then I don't paint my guns so what do I know.

I don't paint my guns either (other than numbers on my mags) but like the paint work.  Looks good!