I can't get the smell of Aervoe out of my apartment... I thought it would be just like using rustoleum, put a fan in the window and the smell and fumes are gone in a few... But goddamn aervoe is pretty hardcore with the fumes!!!

Will you pay me in Trident Layers gum? Heck, if you had asked about 2 months earlier you could have headed down to the DC area and I'd have shown you how I do it. Teach a man to fish, if you catch my drift...

I keep trying to take step-by-step pics, but always get distracted. Here's a brief of what I do though:

1) Wipe the rifle down, mostly excess oil around FCG pins or charging handle. I don't get OCD about it, as frankly I want the worn look so I'm fine if paint rubs off.

2) Mask off only the essentials. I don't put anything behind the ejection port cover, remove the bolt, etc. I cover the areas of the muzzle for my supressor mount, front sight post, rear sight aperture, windage markings, etc. For scopes, if I have Butler or other caps, I stuff kleenex or TP under the caps and close them, otherwise I tape over the lens with kleenex/tp under it. I again only mask off the essential scope markings, like the index marks for the turrets, the numbers, and the direction arrow for impact adjustment.

3) If it's your first time and you are apprehensive, take one of your base coat colors and just quickly spray across the rifle. Just get it out of your system, no there's no going back

4) For the base coat, I like to mix Aervoe Sand and Earth yellow in blotches or bands. Make sure it's a light enough coat that you aren't puddling paint all over and that it's not going to run, but not so light that you can still see all the company painted logos and junk. I personally only do 1 base coat.

5) Once the base coat has sat for like 30+ minutes or so, I grab my old boot camp mesh laundry bag, which I consider the key ingredient. The pattern of the mesh is just right IMO. You want the paint to still be tacky, but not so wet that paint will come off. The tackiness helps hold the mesh in place. I drape it over the rifle and try to stick/form it along the rifle best as possible, but it's not critical. ***Don't forget to move your selector to FIRE or SAFE, ie the opposite of the base coat position. Otherwise you get a nice black dong on your lower

6) With bag in place, do light, short passes with Aervoe Earth Brown and Field Drab. Remember, the longer you hold the spray, the heavier and more defined the top color will be. You want to kind of blend heavier passes with lighter passes, so some areas have a light ghosting of that mesh pattern, and others might be more solid brown/drab. Pull the mesh off, move to opposite side, repeat. I paint the rifle with everything attached. When I do extra rail covers, I line them all up next to each other and basically do the same as above.

One key thing here, don't be like me and go overboard on your top/mesh passes. I tend to cover the whole rifle when I meant to just give some light blotches/bands! Once you are all done, again let her sit for an hour or so, then you should gingerly be able to move it somewhere warm and dry. It's going to smell like pant for at least a few days, and slowly the tackiness will wear off. Eventually she'll be ready to handle, snap pics, fondle, and maybe some spooning.

Additionally, color selection is KEY. If you want this stuff to actually work instead of just look good, you need to really walk around and soak up the colors around you. I personally find greens to be tough to match, so I don't rely on it as much. Browns, tans, and some of the olive drab type colors should be great wherever you are.

I do love to fish

Excellent write up! I had to laugh at step 3
I have the complete lower left from my first AR purchase ever and have plans of doing a similar style paint job to it when I can find another upper for it. (sold the original upper during the "ban scare" )

Aervoe "Field Drab" on upper/lower/bipod adaptor/stock (Near perfect match to KAC Taupe" and Rustoleum "Earth Brown" on the pistol grip (Matches Daniel Defense's FDE pretty damn close!)





I stripped the lower, except for the bolt catch because thats a PITA for me to uninstall and reinstall without "Idiot" marks

The lighting or the cellphone camera makes the aervoe field drab look different shades on the stock, receivers, and bipod adaptor... But in person they are all the same shade

That looks great! I also wanted to let you know I shamelessly stole those pics and added them to my "AR paint job File"
How do you like that Larue grip compared to others you may have tried?

I love the grip... This is my fourth

Whenever I get this thing finished, I'll take it out and get better pics

Some new paint.

Nice!

Specs on the dissy?

It's a bcm upper with dpms heavy barrel,psa fa bcg, psa lower parts kit, Rainer arms buffer tube assembly, Anderson lower got it real cheap. Shot it for the first time this past Wednesday. Runs like a champ on all ammo.  Oh yeah it's rifle length gas  system.

I like the specs of your build and I bet its a nice shooter. Especially with that paint job

I see lots of motivation in here, keep them coming so I will finally break down and throw some rattle can at mine!

I've painted some other gear but this is my first attempt at a complete rifle. Sorry about the crappy photo quality.

Thanks. Do it. If you don't like it, it comes off pretty easy.

I'm sure it does but I just can't see myself throwing some rattle can on my noveske
I need to get another upper for my half of a bushmaster and I'll be more than happy to oblige that one

Paint your Noveske, if you don't like it you can always get a can of brakekleen and start over again. Brakekleen works, ask me how I know

Overspray haha? I was painting a set of wheels for my Subaru and was also checking the brakes while I had them off and yada yada yada I got a bunch of brakeclean on one of them that was sitting too close. Of course I didn't notice till I was putting the clear coat on and got the bubbly and fish eye effect

Jumping on the Aervoe Field Drab bandwagon!  This stuff is awesome.





Thanks to the forums for the inspiration.

Some new accessories.

Get some paint on those things!
I suppose I don't have much room to talk though lol

Lol I did paint the grip green. Camo coming soon.

The soon to be wife's ar with some purple and also my dissy before paint

Edit - Rear site was still drying when I took the photo, so it was not attached.

Colors used - Krylon camo sand, Krylon camo olive, and valspar premium "paint + primer in one" in "flat labrador" (it's brown).

That rifle looks hawt. Love the look of the colors on the fortis rail as well. Sweet setup!

Just did this one a few days ago.  Sorry, I'm not sure how to make them any bigger.

Nice job! looks like the sponge technique? What colors did you use?

That's badass. What color/brand is that grey? This is exactly how I plan to do my current pistol build.
Thanks

rustoleum flat grey primer

Thanks!

I love this rifle. I have a black one coming together this month and this is the goal, maybe with a flat gray primer as the main color. Do you by chance have step by step pics, or a how to write up,  or happen to be in my town soon?

Most pics are gone, but the write up will help you.

Awesome, ive managed to find sevefal other pics of it on various threads, are they all hosted somewhere by chance?

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Awesome. found them, thanks for the tips.

ETA: The girlfriend / wife . feel free to put more of her up her up...

LOL you need to be a member to see more of her.

 






 

fair is fair, l just burst out laughing in my office. $2/ month Sounds pretty darn reasonable now.
Good work all around, sir.

Never liked painting my rifles except your typical khaki rattle can job pre deployments. But....I've seen/heard a lot of people either asking how to multicam and a lot of people actually painting, so I decided to give my "spr" build a multicam rattle can job....
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Does the non-chlorinated work okay for taking paint off? I just finished my AR pistol and the Rustoleum base coat is still sticky after a day I think I'm going back to Krylon camo.

Rattle canned SPR with rattle canned can from a different gun.

Must see MOAR PICS!

Tan base, then wrapped with rope and hit with brown and green, then sponged, then clear coated for durability and slick feel.  Krylon Home Depot Camo.

That's a unique way to do it. +1 to you sir I like it

What color/paint did you use? Looks like a good match for KAC taupe or the ACR coyote which I prefer over FDE.

Nice work.

Aervoe field drab, $6/can at Brownells or DSG. I hear it's a pretty good match to KAC taupe too, but I don't have any to compare the Aervoe to. It is a little darker than "normal" FDE, which I also prefer.

Pretty damn close...

KAC taupe front sight, and aervoe field drab on the bipod adaptor underneath (And receivers and stock as well)

If you get a chance, I would love to see a short write up about how you went about painting this scheme...

That looks awesome .

I jist did this with krylon khaki, brown, and OD. I used a laundry bag and overlayed pieces or thin cardboard that i tore into various shapes on top.

I like it

Thanks. Now i just hope it blends in well out in the wild.