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Old April 21st, 2008, 23:28   #25
ancorp
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Originally Posted by Beazer View Post
can you pm me or put up how you created that iraqi gunstick?
i wouldn't mind making something similar, and would like to see how you went about creating it.
As my original post quickly explained:

-I took apart the gun, stripped all the metal parts of paint.

-Polished up whatever parts I could.

-Used Aluminum black to chemically finish all the parts (top cover and muzzle brake were finished with Bluing earlier).

-Used fine sandpaper to remove some finish on the edges and rivets and so on.

-Polished it a bit again to remove any straight scratches from the sand paper (not much really).

-Mixed water with a LOT of table salt, dunked all the parts in over night.

-Pulled parts out for the day, they were all rusted and corroded by evening.

-Cleaned up using water and such.

-Polished till most of the corrosion/rust is gone, and left with a nice worn out finish.

Rinse and assemble.

I did this for the following metal parts:

Body
Top cover
Bolt carrier
Safety lever
Trigger guard with magcatch
Rear sight block
Rear sight
Rear sight moving parts
Front sight
Handguard retainer
Muzzle brake

Wood - still needs work, I only wore it a bit. Used a bunch of rocks in my hand and rubbed the wood against them, as well as did a bit of sanding if I remember correctly. Then I carved my name into them and left them under water for several hours. Still needs more wear and soaking.

Good luck.

Cheers,
Alex
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