Color fill in a Colt Canada lower?

Trinimon said:
If you use enamel paints, I've found isopropyl alcohol on a firmly folded piece of paper towel will be gentle enough to remove the surplus paint with little impact to what's in the roll marks. If you use acetone to remove the surplus, it's too aggressive and the fumes alone will soften up the paint and you will end up pulling more paint out of the roll marks.
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I'll give this a try. What you're saying here about acetone is exactly the problem I was having. On top of that it was compounding the ghosting(?) because it would require me to then reapply the nail polish.
 
Someone on this thread sounds like that hardcore Glock fanboy who would sh!t down your throat if you even mentioned something negative about a Glock. Real "operator" attitude... he got banned. Kinda sounds like his twin is here.
 
To the OP, if you DO color fill your CC AR, post some pics please. Some of the rest of us want frivolous things like this too.. Me for one :)
Ignore the "operators" up top. They don't realize that for a lot of us, how a gun looks is almost as important as how it shoots.
 
You mean like this? :)

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rkm456 said:
Seeing as I stand to the side of the shooter, and in my experience a safety selector in the wrong position accounts for about 90% of malfunctions. Being able to address that quickly is in everyone's best interest.
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you should be able to tell where the safety is due to lever position anyways... down = fire, towards rear = safe, and if we were in USA with pre 1986 m4's front is full auto :D
 
msnively said:
Looks good. Looks like your tried to do red on the maple leaf. Did it not take, or is it just the lighting?
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I did red on the maple leaf and on the "R" but what's fire engine red in the container is that colour on the lower. So I'l either leave it as is or find a brighter red and redo it, but I'm pretty happy with how the white roll marks turned out. I'm a little disappointed that this round of lowers isn't the same colour as my IUR upper. Of course there are those new batch 11 inch MRR uppers floating around, and the 15.7 is a little on the heavy side...
 
yellowsv said:
Nail polish works awesome.
To get red to pop, you need a layer of white base, then put a coat of red on top.
I did my M&P and G17 recently...
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Yeah, I used nail polish too. I was doing my Glock mags when I started (it's nice to have clear identification when your .40 and 9mm mags when you have a 17 and a 22) and figured while I had it out I'd do the fire controls on my NEA for ease of identification. Then came the rollmarks on the CC. Figured if I was going to do the fire controls I might as well do the roll marks too. Looks good on an HK, right?

But I digress, although I'd originally planned for it to be brighter, I'm not sure whether I'll go back and do it or not as I also kind of like the "sort of red".

That M&P is looking good. Love the look of those guns, but I just don't find I shoot them well. I'll probably still end up with one at some point, lol.
 
yellowsv said:
Wasn't an m&p fan either.
This one popped up on the ee for a deal and I said f-it.
The Apex flat trigger makes a WORLD of difference.
Pulls and breaks just like a 1911 now.
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I've been playing with my Glocks so much lately, my old Colt isn't getting nearly enough attention (probably because of the feed issues I was having). I should give her a little TLC over the winter though.
 
Lmao. That dude makes it sound like if you buy colorful paints you're gonna be broke. It's not one or the other if $4 is gonna break you give it up.

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I don't really see what the big deal is about painting up a range only toy, no reason to justify it either.... Heck I want to do my lower too, to make it easier to tell it's a colt Canada lol. Was part of the reason I went with a colt Canada.

But I do make use of my AR for competition so it does get used like it was meant to be.
 
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