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Painting a gun


shepp

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i know there are numerous threads on here. I'm going to rattle can my 1187 this weekend. I got it all wiped down in the garage, synthetic bits with denatured alcohol, metal bits with paint thinner. EDIT: I noticed after I let the gun "dry" after its cleaning rust spots in the reciver and dirt in the grippy spots on the fore grip and stock I scotch brighted the rec. and barrel, and brushed the denatured alcohol into the groves of the foregrip and stock. (one reason I want to paint it is the bluing is F'd), and then wiped the parts down again as stated above.

I really like the look in the video below, he does 3 colors I may do 4. The gun is already black so I may put a few rubber bands on before the tan, then green and a chocolate brown then finish it off with the tan again. Any tips? 

 

 

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  Your going to make the same Pattern as the Video ? That looks Great , I may have to do something on one of mine , not sure which , yet .

  Waiting for more progress photo's .

that's the plan we'll see how it works.  Going to go get rubber bands now. I will definitely be taking pictures as I go

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So here it is first coat khaki 

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then first set of rubber bands and a coat of woodland light green

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then more rubber bands and a coat of brown

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then the last bunch of bands, hind sight I wish I woulda gone four colors but it was a pain getting the last set of bands on with out messing up the existing ones so I hit it with the khaki again 

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and the finished product

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I went tan, green, brown, tan (that I started with). If you look there are ghost tan lines from the first coat. So if you wanted darker start with the dark first

  I have to do some experimenting , but the rubber band thing is a good idea . Just have to get the coloring I want for the Winter woods in Ohio .

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  I have to do some experimenting , but the rubber band thing is a good idea . Just have to get the coloring I want for the Winter woods in Ohio .

get a chunk of 2x4 maybe and test on that?  You could go a couple shades of green, with brown and black or a gray? There are a good assortment of colors of that krylon at my ace I just didn't pay close attention to them all.

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"Ace is the place " When I looked for this paint to camo a new tree stand , Ace was the only place that had a good assortment . I have a Black Remington Syn. 870 stock I can play with . I may look for paint tomorrow on my way back from the range .

 Now the rubber bands , I'll have to look around , because I may go larger than 1/4 " ?

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