Not my cup of tea

Like it

Hmmm. Kind of looks like an oil well sploded'. Creative but not really my thing for a SCAR.

Doesn't look real. Too Gucci for me personally. Clearly at least one person likes it, though.

I have to say that looks AWESOME!!!!! How much would that cost to have done to a rifle with an optic?

Looks like it was frozen in carbanite with Han Solo

Eh I'll pass but...what rail is that?

I think I've posted this in another thread before -

But technically - it looks like a great refinishing job - but I'm not sure I'm really understanding the current "trend" towards painting polymer parts to look like distressed metal?  

I mean, it's definitely "steam-punk"y, and looks pretty cool, but it just... ::shrug:: doesn't make sense to me...

A more interesting thing to do, I think is that if you did want to go with the agéd, distressed look, would be to try to refinish the polymer parts to look more like distressed wood, and keep the "steam punk" theme.  

~Augee

I believe the intent was to in effect camo the weapon and not so much "distress" it.  The base colors were drawn from several popular camo patterns and blended together to give the customer something other than multicam/kryptek.

I'm sorry, I really don't mean to snipe you or the painter, because I really do think it looks awesome from a pure aesthetic standpoint - but as camouflage, IMHO, the paint scheme makes even less sense...

For a camouflage applications - the basic "point" is usually to break up the outline of whatever it is being camouflaged, and some employ the secondary mechanism of trying to actually blend in to the expected environment.  

On the guns pictured - the different color components of the paint scheme appear to be muted and blended, and lack contrast between the greens, blacks, and tans that would "overpower" the natural perceptions of the gun's outline and surface features and details by obscuring or altering shadows and highlights making it more difficult for the brain to recognize the item.  

At the same time, the "washes" and "highlighting" are fairly extensive and high contrast - which is a technique specifically used to accentuate the outline of a particular item - rendering not less, but more recognizable to the casual observer.  

As just a unique "look," it appears to be fairly well done - but in terms of functional camouflage - while I'm only seeing it in photographs against a stark, white background - functionally, it seems to be less effective camouflage than (e.g.) a factory stock FDE SCAR-17S would have been.  

~Augee

The rail appears to be the new one from Kinetic Dev Group Here

No offense taken what so ever.  I will see if there are any pics of the weapon against terrain to show its effects.  Since most of us cannot discern patterns found on current schemes such as kryptek past 50 meters or so the blending of muted colors tends to work as well as anything from a distance.  This based off some of the sniper smocks for the First and Second World War that we have researched.  

Believe it or not the conceptual idea for MRD was taken from Star Wars which in turn was borrowed from WWII German Sniper Smocks as far as we can tell



 

Looks like a $5000 'BFPU' to me.

So it looks like it was drug down the driveway and then through a fresh cut lawn.  Good cerakote job but ugly as sin.

Wow, not for me personally but just wow!  good work!

Thanks Cav

Resurrected with my compliments to the architect.  Absolutely amazing job.  Can you elaborate on the process used.  Looks like it breaks the outlines up to me.  Far better than most camo jobs I have seen folks come up with.

I think it has the basis of being an outstanding camo job for a rifle, but they need to switch the tones.  What I mean is the high points should be darker and what would normally be a shadow/recessed area make it a brighter/lighter shade.  This is done to confuse a potential observer as to what they are looking at if they see it at all.  Basic tenant of applying a camo pattern.

Stephen

What would the cost be to get a 17s done in hand stenciled cerakote?  How about wait time?  That work is special!

Looks great!