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Posted: 2/7/2007 1:23:58 PM EDT
[Last Edit: bjwar10]
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very nice. Is it going on that same rifle right? I am going to take the plunge one of these days here and do the needlework over my duracoat FDE
How big of needles are these? I was thinking we had them around here but they are all evergreens |
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Correct, all going on my AR10. The needles I'm using are 4"-6" long. |
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That looks good. You should do a pictorial of the process!
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The writers of the Constitution were probably just kidding about the "shall not be infringed" part. |
As soon as I can catch on off day and find something else to paint, I'll do that. |
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I wouldnt mind seeing your process either. How about a pic of the complete rifle with all your new stuff? |
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Honestly, the light rarely gets used. Occasionally, I'll have to go check the fence line at night and I'll put it on but otherwise it's one of those things that I have "just in case". The bipod is another item that I only use when the grass/cover is too high to allow for prone shooting. I like to extend the legs all the way and sit...very stable platform. I doubt I'll get to it Monday, but Friday's looking pretty good for some painting and picture taking... |
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Sweet tutorial bjwar10. Think I'll give it a try with DuraCoat. I'll post pics.
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Thanks for posting.
Good info. |
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thanks for showing us your technique. Very nice work
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Sweet !!!! Thank's for sharing your technique !!!
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Good job. Looks like a new project in my future.
Off topic, but what scope are you running? |
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Nightforce NXS 2.5-10x24 |
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Bump, interesting technique
Sweet Baby Jesus that looks good! At first I thought the carry handle was done in Multicam! |
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Very nice. Will have to try something like that one of these days.
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Tagorama. Gonna have to try this. Thanks BJ
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bjwar, thanks for taking the time to share your method. That is a great looking camo - especially on the last one!
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Thamks... |
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that makes a terrific camo pattern
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those are seriously some of the coolest paint jobs I have ever seen.
thanks for sharing! |
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That look outstanding. Thank you for the tutorial.
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every time I look at this thread, I am blown away at how good that paint job looks.
very nice work. |
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Thanks...I chaulk it up to the blind squirrel syndrome seeing how it was my first attempt. |
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That looks amazing!
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Thanks very much for your time and effort on this thread. I've wanted to try this for a long time and now believe I have the confidence to try. (That may change standing over a $1500 rifle with a can of paint in my hand)
I have an abundance of pine needles and really like the patterns you've gotten here. Rob |
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The only requirement is that you post pics when completed... |
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freaking tag, damn, I gotta try that.
Does it work for wood? Might learn on my SKS before I tackle my ar10Tc TXL ETA, is krylon ok for all colors, or is there a better paint I should use? Thanks TXL |
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It depends on how permanent you want it to be. I used Norrell's Tan Moly Resin for a base coat (thermal cure...ain't coming off unless you blast it) and then camoed it with the krylon. The krylon is slowly fading and wearing off as well as the occasional over spray of Remoil will remove it. The good news is that I can easily add more pattern or remove some if I want to. |
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And just where aree you going to get your pine needles, huh? |
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The answer is: "Glock G19 and a CompTac CTAC".
Please stop asking the same silly question. |
Thanks for the tutorial. I always thought it would more difficult than that.
How did you degrease/clean before shooting? |
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...before spraying? I used brake cleaner and lots of it. I sprayed the entire rifle several times before applying the Norrell's. The only word of caution is to make sure there is not any brake cleaner pooled up in any crevices because when you heat the parts to cure the Norrell's it will cook out and mess up the Norrell's...don't ask how I know this. I used a hair dryer to preheat the parts before spraying the Norrell's. While this got the parts hot enough for the Norrell's it did not get the BC out of the crevices. What I should have done was preheat/bake the parts to make sure the BC was totally gone and then used the hair dryer to keep the parts hot. |
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Thanks alot for the lesson, I have tried it out on two flashlights trying to get it down before I do a rifle and both look awesome. IMHO this is the best camo pattern going, and it's easy to do-now that you showed us all. Thanks a million!
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Great pictures and tutorial
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Tagging for krylon sweetness know how.
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*dang* that was cool... thanks for the info and pics!!!
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That's really nice looking. When you paint over the needles do you just paint stripes of the two cover colors side by side or do you give it a once over with one color then adjust the needles and spray the other color on?
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I guess it just depends on how much of what color you want on your rifle. On mine I used OD and brown in alternate stripes and then took the khaki and just put a few dots here and there all without moving the pine needles. |
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Very nice.
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Nice |
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