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WOW... I think that is very, VERY cool looking...
You did a good job of maching the pattern.. brian |
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dude,
I normally think camo on rifles looks terrible. That is badass!!!!! |
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looks great, and thanks for posting, but I'm not really sure I follow the instructions (especially the K-Mart balls part)
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looks great, and thanks for posting, but I'm not really sure I follow the instructions (especially the K-Mart balls part) Now, the next part will vary on what you have available to use as a stencil for the scales.
I found a bag of plastic balls in the toy section of K-Mart that was flexible enough to lay flat on most of the complex areas of the rifle. Most of us use a mesh material for the scale pattern. This mesh can easily be found in use for bags in major retail stores. Here is the item I bought. You can see the pattern if you zoom in. See the mesh in the bottom left of this pic: ![]() Buy something in a mesh bag, cut up the bag, and lay it over the gun. |
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Looks great, I will be using this thread once my next build is done.
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did you do this in your attic? Shit, will he be willing to do it in mine? |
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thanks for the clarification offroader. I love what you've done and want to do it to my AR15. What kind of spray-paint did you use? and what were all the colors you used exactly?
Also, did the painting blend well when you flipped the rifle over to do the other side? |
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Dang, it looks great.
The only thing I would do differently, would be to darken the light areas just a bit more, and only leave the lightest of that right where they meet the next color. |
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Yep, It was raining, so I went to my indoor paint booth
![]() The colors were Khaki, Brown, Copper and black. I painted the rifle from the top first, then did the sides so the pattern would wrap around. I wanted a little darker in the middle too, but I lost track of the tape lines after the second coat of brown. I would recommend marking the tape lines with sharpie after each coat to make it easier to see them. |
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Hey, I ain't complaining. Only a note of artistic difference. I would be proud to have that done to mine.
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Looks absolutely gorgeous.
![]() Now what i want to know is you made it a point to tell us you bought a big bag of balls. What did you do with em? |
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Looks absolutely gorgeous. ![]() Now what i want to know is you made it a point to tell us you bought a big bag of balls. What did you do with em? I have a 1 year old. win, win. I think they'll make good reactive targets when he gets done with them. ![]() |
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That came out really nice. Any problem with the barrel getting hot and slowly burning off the paint on the barrel?
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wow usually i think the paint jobs on rifles suck
this is freaking awesome!!! |
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Nice work OP.
Saw a guy do that to a M-14 but his was not quite as nice as yours. Better not let my 95 year old grandmother see it though. She's a copperhead-killing machine. She would be choppin' at that flash suppressor with her little hoe! ![]() |
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I have a gun and an attic and blue tape. I need some paint and moose balls.
This will require help. |
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I've gotta say, that looks awesome. I just showed it to my wife and told her that I've got to paint one of my AR's like that and she gave me the typical woman response: why? She thinks it looks like good work but doesn't understand the purpose. Women. Good job OP.
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This my favorite spray can job I have ever seen. I tried to recreate this pattern at least a half dozen times on a couple big ammo cans I have, and I have failed every time. I'm super jealous. You can see that in the beginning of the thread I asked the OP a bunch of questions to make sure that I was doing it right.
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if you lightly wet the mesh so that it is damp, it will "stick" and conform better to the countours. works good with paper as well, for one time use stencils.
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if you lightly wet the mesh so that it is damp, it will "stick" and conform better to the countours. works good with paper as well, for one time use stencils. View Quote This. I tried to emphasize this in the OP. The paint needs to be tacky for the mesh to stick right and get nice detail. Thanks for the kind words guys. If anyone wants something painted, you can arrange to ship it to me and I'll gladly do my best for a few bucks. |
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Coincidentally, I have the colors to pretty much replicate this... Now, what to paint? Maybe my M&P 15-22?
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I think it looks great, but personally I would have gone with a little less red.
Great job, though! |
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