Here's my little project
Bare metal with gun blueing on it... I still have to paint the grip to make it look like wood and stain my stock
I had an hard time getting the gun blue to hold on the foward grip.. and also the barrell thing seems to be in copper so you cannot blue it.. I left it black.
It wasn't long to strip the gun to the metal, I just used some toner and sanded what was left