Painting Rifle, What type of paint?
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Well, I just painted my first stock. It's plastic. First, I filled in all the checkering with Bondo, and sanded the entire thing down with 80-grit. Then I smoothed out the sanding marks with 180 grit, and gave it a couple coats of plastic primer. Then I hit it with a coat of Canadian Tire brand spray-on truck bed liner. Once that dried, I primed it again, and applied a finishing coat of krylon matte 'desert sand' camo paint.
It came out quite nice, the texture's great. Problem is that it does scratch fairly easily - but that's also easily corrected with a shot of desert sand paint afterwords.
It came out quite nice, the texture's great. Problem is that it does scratch fairly easily - but that's also easily corrected with a shot of desert sand paint afterwords.
Thanks for the reply guys. I am just going to be painting just the barrel, bipod and action. I haven't got up the nerve to paint the scope and rings as I am concerned about the moving parts of the scope. As well I am not sure if you need to take the rings etc off and paint them separately rather than just painting everything while its still on the rifle. I am not painting the stock. I have a McMillan A-5 stock with olive green and black swirl and it doesn't need any painting.
I used to camo rifles and shotguns. All metal parts where stripped with PPG reducer then primed with PPG DP90 (black) epoxy primer. Remember - do not touch the metal once cleaned with your fingers. I used PPG AB auto paint (yellow ochre, burnt sienna and olive colors) Using an airbrush I hold branches, twigs or leaves an inch or two away from the firearm and over spray. Start with the darkest colors first - green, sienna and yellowor a sand color. The stock uses the same paint. When you begin airbrushing overlay your templates over the metal and wood or synthetic stock - this way breaking up the lines between each other.
The firearm will have a gloss finish. The top coat is everthing. I used PPG's DU1000. This is the same topcoat used by Department of National Defence on F18's and ground vehicles minus the infared compound. I add a flatening agent to the Du1000 and give 1 coat. Let dry 10 min then apply a second coat. After it cured (24hrs) we fired 25 rounds as fast as we could then took a wire brush to the surface. NEVER CAME OFF. Tied the 870 to the back of a half ton and dragged across a sumer follow field. NO SCRATCHES. Lost it once found it proped up against a tree a day later. Funny thing was two of us stood beside it 3 or 4 times. Still have it and will never get rid of it or lend it.
The firearm will have a gloss finish. The top coat is everthing. I used PPG's DU1000. This is the same topcoat used by Department of National Defence on F18's and ground vehicles minus the infared compound. I add a flatening agent to the Du1000 and give 1 coat. Let dry 10 min then apply a second coat. After it cured (24hrs) we fired 25 rounds as fast as we could then took a wire brush to the surface. NEVER CAME OFF. Tied the 870 to the back of a half ton and dragged across a sumer follow field. NO SCRATCHES. Lost it once found it proped up against a tree a day later. Funny thing was two of us stood beside it 3 or 4 times. Still have it and will never get rid of it or lend it.
