I received quite a few PM's when I painted my rifle and saw even more when JerryR painted his, all of them asking the same thing...How did you do that? Well I painted two of my rifles last week and thought it would be a good opportunity to show you how I and Jerry painted our rifles. The materials necessary are:
Masking Tape
Alcohol or Acetone
Paper Towels / Lint Free Rags
Exacto knife or Box Cutters
Ear Plug
Krylon Ultra Flat Khaki, Green, and Brown
1 or 2 Bundles of Fake Grass or Real Grass for that matter.
Step 1...Preparation
This is the most important step and involves taping off the action, trigger, turrets, objective lens, and anything else you don't want painted. Next is roughing up plastic parts with fine grit sand paper to allow the paint to adhere better. Degreasing the rifle and components is done to remove the oils from the hands, cleaning solvents, etc..that may prevent the paint from sticking and curing properly. Plug the barrel with the ear plug to prevent paint from getting down into the bore. In the end the rifle will look something like this:
Step 2....The base coat.
I like to use the Krylon Ultra Flat Khaki as a base coat when I paint. It's actually pretty simple, use a slow sweeping motions going the length of the weapon without creating runs. It will start out looking like this:
And end looking like this:
If it's kind of chilly where I'm painting then I'll use a blow dryer to help the paint dry initially and then I let it sit for 15 minutes. I've found that if it cold out when painting the paint will turn out more glossy, especially the brown, but using a blow dryer helps take care of that.
Step 3...Using the stencil
Take the bundle of grass(real or fake) and splay it out with your hand and hold it up to the rifle. This is where the pattern comes down to personal preferance, if you just use short shots of paint then you'll get the more grassy texture, using sweeping motions will give you a blend of splotching and some streaking. I like to start with green,here's a photo example:
The AR10 after getting some green:
The Remington:
Again let sit for 15 minutes.
Step 4...Now on with the Brown
You can alternate the position of the bundle to creat different patterns and textures to help break up the rifle. Let sit 15 minutes.
Step 5...The end result:
$20 worth of stuff to paint $10,000 worth of optics and guns, ain't life grand.
It's at this time that you peel off the masking tape and remove the barrel plug...congratulations you've just painted a rifle.
Here's the Remington in the woods to see how the pattern/color combination works:
Masking Tape
Alcohol or Acetone
Paper Towels / Lint Free Rags
Exacto knife or Box Cutters
Ear Plug
Krylon Ultra Flat Khaki, Green, and Brown
1 or 2 Bundles of Fake Grass or Real Grass for that matter.
Step 1...Preparation
This is the most important step and involves taping off the action, trigger, turrets, objective lens, and anything else you don't want painted. Next is roughing up plastic parts with fine grit sand paper to allow the paint to adhere better. Degreasing the rifle and components is done to remove the oils from the hands, cleaning solvents, etc..that may prevent the paint from sticking and curing properly. Plug the barrel with the ear plug to prevent paint from getting down into the bore. In the end the rifle will look something like this:
Step 2....The base coat.
I like to use the Krylon Ultra Flat Khaki as a base coat when I paint. It's actually pretty simple, use a slow sweeping motions going the length of the weapon without creating runs. It will start out looking like this:
And end looking like this:
If it's kind of chilly where I'm painting then I'll use a blow dryer to help the paint dry initially and then I let it sit for 15 minutes. I've found that if it cold out when painting the paint will turn out more glossy, especially the brown, but using a blow dryer helps take care of that.
Step 3...Using the stencil
Take the bundle of grass(real or fake) and splay it out with your hand and hold it up to the rifle. This is where the pattern comes down to personal preferance, if you just use short shots of paint then you'll get the more grassy texture, using sweeping motions will give you a blend of splotching and some streaking. I like to start with green,here's a photo example:
The AR10 after getting some green:
The Remington:
Again let sit for 15 minutes.
Step 4...Now on with the Brown
You can alternate the position of the bundle to creat different patterns and textures to help break up the rifle. Let sit 15 minutes.
Step 5...The end result:
$20 worth of stuff to paint $10,000 worth of optics and guns, ain't life grand.
It's at this time that you peel off the masking tape and remove the barrel plug...congratulations you've just painted a rifle.
Here's the Remington in the woods to see how the pattern/color combination works:
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