Painting my gun
 

About to paint my gun a woodland digital camo! Any tips or advice you can give me? Working on the stencil as we speak. Have my flat colours ready!


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Use very light applications of paint. Quick light strokes, not heavy slow ones. Paint will very quickly build up and gunk up your creation.

If you were to paint a single square foot of canvass, start at the top going side to side in a typewriter fashion, taking about a single second to a second and a half to cover each horizontal quadrant.

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Got ya! Quick movements until evenly coated.


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Say that were to happen... how would you remove the paint? And I mean in the small crevices of the engravings. The base is ABS plastic.

Not elegantly. Sandpaper I suppose would be a good place to start, but it's going to be a huge undertaking to reset back to zero, assuming one could even reach the small crevices.

FML. For some reason my krylon black camo has this greasy sticky glossy film on top of it and then the markings have a thick layer to them that i'm not sure how to reach with sandpaper without damaging the plastic. I'm trying to get all of it off and repaint it from scratch.

I'm sorry for hijacking OP's thread.

Depending on what kind of job you are doing, you could forget about the trades and just paint over it.

Black paint is usually of lower quality than other paints, especially when it doesn't have other paint to stick to. I always start with the lightest paint I have and add darker paints after.

Black being very thick, it's even more important to use light strokes

No worries it good questions for me if anything happens



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Remember also, that when start and end of a spray will induce undesirable splatter. To avoid this, start the spray off the gun, then swipe over the gun, and end the spray when the it is off the gun again.

Thanks I definitely will take that advise .


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I have seen a lot of nicely painted guns, then again I have also seen a lot more poorly painted ones.

I hope you plan on removing all the furniture before you paint it.

My friend did his with all the sights,pec box, optics mounted on it. He decided to change the sights and optics, and now were they use to mount are black unpainted areas that look gross.

I already planned on that. Taking everything down to the bare min. To make sure I get the effect I'm looking for.


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Try to use female stencils rather than male if you are going to use stencils at all. It will help avoid the build up that comes with using spray paint. The female version will give you a hard edge but avoids the accumulation of excess paint that tends to happen along the edges when using males stencils. Just my 2 cents.

Gradients! A good balance of hard and soft edges is the way to go :) And be patient! I used laundry net, and leaves from various tress :)
https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8573/1...203c6a7e_b.jpg

http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/10...d3bf8650e0.jpg
Some minor tweaking to the process to stop the edges from bleeding but otherwise I learned a lot.


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