I searched google and found a few threads but nothing definitive. Many of my surplus bullets are oxidized and the tumbling required to get them looking nice removes the painted tips. I don't want to accidentally get a incendiary mixed in when we have dry conditions out here.

Has anybody replicated the dipping paint the use for bullets? I'm thinking a thin lacquer paint of some sort and perhaps preheat the tip with a heat gun?

What he said but use odd colors such as neon green. Tell others you have uber ultra rare ammo.

Now you got me thinking. Perhaps some scraps of the hydrographics film. I don't have enough free time for this but if I could just buy a bottle of lacquer and dip them and put them in a drying rack I'd be game. After all most of the surplus bullets I bought are doing a hell of alot better than my 401K

get a magnum sized marker from a art store

drill a small divot in the ends, put in bullet/twist, dries in a couple seconds.

else drill some 3/8" holes in cardboard, stick rounds through spray paint tips


done both, prefer the marker