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well, i said i was gonna do it. i finished it about 12:30 a.m. this morning. i am at work now, so no pics of it in the outdoors, but here's a few pics. yeah, i know it's not an AR, i'm gonna do that on monday or tuesday. i'm not really happy with these colors and i want to pick up something a little lighter.   
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None of my business...just my opinion...but from my experience it looks as though you either held the can too close to the rifle or tried to cover too much of the rifle with paint. Personally, I would have used more needles and less paint. I like to spray one color (say OD) in stripes that are about 5"-6" apart. Then go back and spray brown between the OD stripes.  |
you are right. this was my first time ever trying to do anything like this, so i will learn from my mistakes. i may re-do it, or i might just leave it alone. i went home on my lunch break today to try to get some outdoor photos and only had time to upload 1 to photobucket, but i'm fairly pleased. i need to lighten the inside of the sun shade, it is way too dark in there.  
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Per request from the OP, here's my pinestraw project. Paint selection from left to right, Rust-Oleum multicolore texture,Deep Forest Green, Autumn Brown and textured Sandstone. Krylon Matte finish and el cheapo flat black I had lying aorund for possible dusting. Cleaned weapon of oil and dirt. Painted base coat of Sandstone.  Painted Forest green first on my mags and red dot scope.   Then painted them with the Autumn Brown.    Dried everything over heat register inbetween coats. Yes,the dates on the camera are wrong.  Hey guys and gals. I just finished doing the next steps on the left side of my rifle. I think I got too complex of a paint for my project as the Rust-Oleum Texured Multicolor paint is VERY thick and as sticky! Just the green spray over.  Brown added next.    The thick paint totally covered the serial # so I took a swab and fingernail polish remover and stripped the paint from around it and over it. I will repaint it with a brush or leave it for the 'end of a hollow limb' look. Undecided as of yet.  Finished product.      Pics aren't that good but you get the idea. If you like the tecnique and final look of the rifles in this thread and want to try it yourself...go for it! You might really be surprised at what you can do if you just try! Good luck and happy painting! |
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Just finished my new Grip-Pod...I did not have any Norrell's Tan on hand so I used some Krylon Satin Nutmeg as a base coat on the Grip-Pod. Dug out my pine needles and finished it off with the same old Krylon OD, Brown and Khaki. You can see that the Grip-Pod has a bit more of a coyote look than the FDE of the Norrell's...same goes for the GGG front sight.   
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Thanks for the resurection BJwar. My experiences with the pinestraw were these. 1. Cheap way to make a very nice unique rifle. 2. Matches the surroundings the best. 3. Everyone asks "Who did that???? That looks great. For me I'm looking for a long term finish so instead of Krylon I will be redoing mine with duracoat. The Krylon looks great but comes off easily. If your looking for an easy camo job try this 100% |
| Thanks for resurrecting this thread! I had no idea those camo jobs were that easy....I think I might just beable to do it. |
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I just want something small plain and simple...
Originally Posted By nohair:
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To the OP, still the best looking camo job I have seen. I have been looking at camo for years now. You are the king of the can!  To me, nature is random. The OP threw those needles down on the flashlight in the tutorial. They weren't all straight and he didn't lay them at different angles when switching colors. At least that's what I saw. Going to give it a whirl one of these days. I just don't know if I could camo an AR. 
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Well I took the plunge! First of all, thanks to bjwar10 for the great idea. Thanks for this thread and the tutorials, it was a great help. I hope you don't mind me adding these pics, etc. Here we go... I've had a synthetic stock for a Mini-14 in the storage room for a couple years. Haven't used the Mini much since I got my AR. So, I figured this would be a good test run. I bought Krylon Flat Khaki, Olive and Brown from their "camo" line of paint. I also got a can of cheap flat black but ended up not using it. I went for a ride in the country this morning looking for some good prairie grass to use instead of pine needles because we don't have those 6" pine needles in this part of MO. I found some grass and got a good amount of it. It was a waste of time, it didn't work well at all IMO. It was too flimsy and hard to deal with. So I bit the bullet and went to the Dollar General and got a $5 corn straw broom. Man that thing was a pain to dismantle, but I got her done. A few test runs on cardboard and I was ready to go. I degreased the stock with brake cleaner and layed down a couple good coats of the flat khaki.  Then I tossed some straws on the stock and sprayed approx 10" away from the stock fairly quicky, working in the same direction as the straw was laying. I used olive first, then brown, but it really doesn't matter.  Then lay some more straws down at different angles elsewhere.  I started to see some coverage here. I started getting brave with the paint after this point. Heck with it, it's not like I'm painting a Bentley.  Then I laid the stock on its back to get some paint on the underneath side.  And again, moving the straws.  And the top of the stock...  And here is the finished stock...  And here it is outside...  Here is a pic of it all put together.  I will be honest, I was a bit unsure of how it was going to turn out. I expected it to be another one of those projects where I get a big idea then am disappointed by the results. So far I'm pretty happy with this one. I'm not sure if I will use a matte clear on it or not. Not today at least. |
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and found places where the BC didn't get/or was left and the paint didn't stick. Takes alot of time to off the paint and start over
here are a couple of pics of the finished(?) piece. My thanks again to bjwar10 and the others who have posted. Preston
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The camo krylon now has "Fusion Technology" which I figured was a joke. I am amazed thus far at how well it has stuck. I rubbed my thumb across the paint for a while, trying to get it to rub off. It hasn't yet. Keep us updated with pics of course.
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Thanks for posting your pics and procedure. That's kind of what I had hoped this thread would turn into so other folks could see that it is really pretty easy to do. I don't think I have seen anyone's project turn out bad. Your Mini looks great! |
More Duracoat Broomstraw fodder for ya. Its an essential arms lower, cmmg upper and 18" middy barrel, yhm rifle length tube, and millet 4-16 ill. with tps rings. Colors are base of magpul FDE, aug green, dirt brown, and combat green shadows. Make sure you dont miss the howling coyote. Looks like I need a ARD really bad or mist the inside of the sunshade. 
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Be sure you post pics when you do. I need to camo something else now.
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I have truly been inspired by this post. This is a troy MCS in a "broom pattern"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3008/2341089321_9103bc77bf.jpg?v=0. I will be finishing the rifle in another week or so. Just waiting on the stock. I followed the writeups but I added a lighter tan color as a fourth color. Let me know if it works or not. I'm not sure if I like it or not as much with the light (almost) white color. I will be doing an M4 with the same pattern colors as BJWAR10. Thanks again BJWAR, This has been alot of fun! A few more inside and outside. Without Flash http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3168/2341082173_476ed163eb.jpg?v=0 With Flash http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2164/2341913742_93575490ac.jpg?v=0 Another Outside Shot http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2033/2341920806_665b5c686f.jpg?v=0 |
My pleasure. FWIW I kind of like the white on that TROY chasis. I used Krylon khaki to get the shade slightly lighter than the Norrell's...not a lot of it just a few spots here and there. |
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Why thank you. Some good looking guns on here. By far my favorite camo pattern. Bill Jordan ain't got nothin' on this.
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Here is my scope with the base coat only (prior to krylon). After each of the light coats of KG, I took a q-tip and some MEK and removed the KG from the lettering and numbers. On the final VERY light misting, I left the KG and this is what it looks like. It subdued the areas without totally covering the lettering. My only thought for you is that the MEK might take the lettering off the Aimpoint...    |
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I tried using tape and my biggest issue was when I went to remove the tape it peeled off some of the finish with it. YMMV |
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Has anyone tried the Testors Enamel Paint? Either through and Airbrush/HVLP or rattle can. They do have some pretty cool camo package colors available. Testors That shotgun of mine getting stripped and degreased this weekend and pinestrawed. |
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I did it... Removed the Duracoat and rattle canned my Mossberg... Never thought I'd get the stones... Anyhow, stripped and degreased $1.99  $4.79 for the rattle cans  Base coat Khaki then the Olive   Followed with The Brown   Parts   Fore end  Assembled  Great thread, I had to do it...  Did the 18" & the 28" barrels What do you guys think, |
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