Painting a gun

[shepp]

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? 

 

 

Edited September 11, 2015 by shepp
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[shepp]

Found some paint at ace, saw this in numerous YouTube videos

 

 

[Cali_Ed]

That looks badass

[Malig8r]

Nice video Shepp. Thanks for sharing.

[shepp]

I got my first coat on wish I would have read the direction and got rubber bands today. Paint dries in 15 min workable in an hour. Tomorrow morning I'm off to office max :)

[survivalshop]

  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 .

[shepp]

  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

[shepp]

So here it is first coat khaki 

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

then more rubber bands and a coat of brown

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 

 

and the finished product

 

 

 

 

 

 

[unforgiven]

Very slick brother,I likey.

[sketch]

Thank you shepp this thread will be in my memory bank! Shotty looks dang good!

[MikedaddyH]

Thanks for putting this tread up. +2

[jtallen83]

Very cool! I have to try that some day.

[shepp]

Thanks guys! Took some better pictures. Not bad for 30-35$ in materials. 

[98Z5V]

Damn, that's sweet! 

[edgecrusher]

Yup, great outcome, and price point!

[Rsquared]

Not too shabby Shepp. That thing looks pretty sweet. That's a damn good inexpensive (but labor intensive) paint job. You done good brother.

[shepp]

Ok back together and ready to shoot some birds in the face 

done taking pictures I promise lol

 

 

[survivalshop]

 Nice job , now I want to do one , but I think I want it on the darker side . I should start out with the light colors  ?

[shepp]

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

[Sisco]

Nice job Shepp. Looks like something you would buy at Cabela's. Camo'ed a canoe once, don't know if I would have the artistry for a shotgun.

[survivalshop]

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 .

[shepp]

  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.

[blue109]

Been looking at videos of guys using the PA multicam stencils. They come out really nice. I need another sopmod stock and thinking of getting the multicam B5 one 

[survivalshop]

"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 " ?

Edited September 15, 2015 by survivalshop

[shepp]

I used 1/4 and 3/8 Walmart had both a 1/2-5/8 would have been nice.