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Originally Posted By muta4warrior: Just finished this for a customer yesterday.. Brand new Springfield Echelon getting the Ral-8000 Cerakote treatment. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/106757/20230723_203431-2896188.jpg I’m already fighting myself on buying an Echelon. Then you had to go and do this.  Looks great! |
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Originally Posted By -OdieGreen-: I’m already fighting myself on buying an Echelon. Then you had to go and do this. Looks great! Originally Posted By -OdieGreen-: Originally Posted By muta4warrior: Just finished this for a customer yesterday.. Brand new Springfield Echelon getting the Ral-8000 Cerakote treatment. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/106757/20230723_203431-2896188.jpg I’m already fighting myself on buying an Echelon. Then you had to go and do this. Looks great! You are really going to hate me now... lol Here is another customers Echelon I did today in Midnight Bronze. 
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Originally Posted By muta4warrior: You are really going to hate me now... lol Here is another customers Echelon I did today in Midnight Bronze. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/106757/20230809_155220-2914500.jpg Attached File I love me some bronze Cerakote too. Smoked bronze on the SFAR and middle AR receivers and buffer tubes, midnight bronze and FDE mix in the shorty’s receivers. 
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"Whoever makes himself great will be made humble. Whoever makes himself humble will be made great." -Jesus
"if it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth" - Linus from Charlie Brown
"if it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth" - Linus from Charlie Brown
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Attached File Attached File Attached File eta: the guys making videos doing this make make it look easy. It isn't for me. This is the second one I've done, the first was just a solid color. |
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Hard for me to tell on the phone, but looks like you suffer from layer lines and some bleed under the stencils. For the thick layer lines, only your base coat has to be to spec. Everything is is purely cosmetic. You can go much lighter on the coverage. What I like to do is turn my air, fan, and fluid level down and use my gun like an airbrush and lightly spray between and around the stencils, not directly on them. This lets you control the thickness and keep it from pooling around the stencil edges. As lone as it goes on with a little wet look you’re good. Don’t worry if the color of your stencil is bleeding through. Once I broke the habit of wanting the whole thing including the stencils covered In a solid color my coatings got a lot smoother around the stencils. As for the bleeding of color under the stencils, that usually starts because the stencils curl up during the flash cure. I’ve started doing a longer flash cure at 150 and have no more curling. I also press everything down right before my next spray. In the event a stencil still does lift, the lighter sprays mentioned above will help immensely with bleed through regardless. Also, on your final cure, I do a 10min initial cure at full temp and then pull it out and remove all stencils before the final cure. This also pulls some of the ridges off with the stencils and gives it a smoother finished look. I’ve been doing my own for years. Every one I did was an improvement. Still finding better ways to do things now that I’m doing it professionally too! I just knocked out this MCB for myself yesterday. 
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Originally Posted By Thor: Hard for me to tell on the phone, but looks like you suffer from layer lines and some bleed under the stencils. For the thick layer lines, only your base coat has to be to spec. Everything is is purely cosmetic. You can go much lighter on the coverage. What I like to do is turn my air, fan, and fluid level down and use my gun like an airbrush and lightly spray between and around the stencils, not directly on them. This lets you control the thickness and keep it from pooling around the stencil edges. As lone as it goes on with a little wet look you’re good. Don’t worry if the color of your stencil is bleeding through. Once I broke the habit of wanting the whole thing including the stencils covered In a solid color my coatings got a lot smoother around the stencils. As for the bleeding of color under the stencils, that usually starts because the stencils curl up during the flash cure. I’ve started doing a longer flash cure at 150 and have no more curling. I also press everything down right before my next spray. In the event a stencil still does lift, the lighter sprays mentioned above will help immensely with bleed through regardless. Also, on your final cure, I do a 10min initial cure at full temp and then pull it out and remove all stencils before the final cure. This also pulls some of the ridges off with the stencils and gives it a smoother finished look. I’ve been doing my own for years. Every one I did was an improvement. Still finding better ways to do things now that I’m doing it professionally too! I just knocked out this MCB for myself yesterday. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/66797/IMG_0277_Copy-3021371.jpg I appreciate your observations and the tips. It all makes sense. We gave it another go Friday afternoon and I was able to see just what you're talking about when it started to look wet. I got a few layer lines still but it doesn't seem as extreme as the last one. Luckily we are just goofing off with this stuff because we'd probably starv if we relied on it for income  Attached File I'll post another picture when I get it all reassembled. |
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"Whoever makes himself great will be made humble. Whoever makes himself humble will be made great." -Jesus
"if it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth" - Linus from Charlie Brown
"if it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth" - Linus from Charlie Brown
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Got a few more over done the past month or so.. 10mm XD  Silencer Co lower with Gemtech Integral upper  Gen 1 MCX with modified Gen 2 handguard (customer bought it with the handguard)  Tried my hand a some camo patterns.. HK VP9 slide (top) P80 Sig 320 slide (bottom)  Stoeger STR 9mm (finished this today) 
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Dirty Desert Camo on this PWS using Chocolate Brown, Magpul FDE, Armor Black, and Benelli Sand. Damn near every single exterior part, minus the barrel, was coated. Attached File Sauer Milk  Attached File PA LPVO and ADM Mount in AI Dark Earth Attached File |
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Did this one yesterday for one of the guys that used to work at the shop, he just graduated from the police academy last friday.. Started out as a beat up LE trade in Gen4 Glock 22.The look on his face when he came in last night to pick it up was priceless. 😆  
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Originally Posted By OG1: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/289319/IMG_20231128_052322010_jpg-3054236.JPG Badass |
Let's go Brandon!
not joeII, I'm Joe
My grandfather was Joe senior, dad Joe Jr, I'm the third.
So my username is joeIII223
Those are three I's not L's
Thanks @whiskerz @Boomer for helping me clear this up.
not joeII, I'm Joe
My grandfather was Joe senior, dad Joe Jr, I'm the third.
So my username is joeIII223
Those are three I's not L's
Thanks @whiskerz @Boomer for helping me clear this up.
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Looks good! If you’re interested in matching the stuff up front, A.I. Dark Earth matches the B5 Coyote stuff nearly dead on. |
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Let's go Brandon!
not joeII, I'm Joe
My grandfather was Joe senior, dad Joe Jr, I'm the third.
So my username is joeIII223
Those are three I's not L's
Thanks @whiskerz @Boomer for helping me clear this up.
not joeII, I'm Joe
My grandfather was Joe senior, dad Joe Jr, I'm the third.
So my username is joeIII223
Those are three I's not L's
Thanks @whiskerz @Boomer for helping me clear this up.
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You sure that's your first?  Looks damned even. Good job. 
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"What is socialism? The most difficult and tortuous way to progress from capitalism to capitalism." -Stated at an intel conference, East Berlin, Oct. 1988
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Been wanting to do white and black distressed for a while. Finally got a request and I’m super happy with how it turned out. Attached File Attached File |
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Originally Posted By Thor: Been wanting to do white and black distressed for a while. Finally got a request and I’m super happy with how it turned out. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/66797/IMG_2777_jpeg-3177010.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/66797/IMG_2783_jpeg-3177011.JPG Not my style, but damn if that didn't come out nice. |
"What is socialism? The most difficult and tortuous way to progress from capitalism to capitalism." -Stated at an intel conference, East Berlin, Oct. 1988
"Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods." -H.L. Mencken
"Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods." -H.L. Mencken
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Originally Posted By lew: Not my style, but damn if that didn't come out nice. Not my style either, mostly due to color. I did try out distressed Smoked Bronze with camo on this P365 Attached File |
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Some beautiful spray being laid............ Do any one of you have the ability to show/give me a side by side comparison of H-250 A.I. Dark Earth Vs H-261 Glock FDE? I was told via email that Triarc's Peanut Butter Color is the H-261 Glock FDE???? Also is it considered over kill to spray Lower and Lower Parts (mag release, bolt catch, safety selector) all the same? Should I leave the black contrast on these two color tones? I did on my FDE rifle it looks good but looking to keep each spray a lil different other than color |
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Ok….i have to share . The Joker gun I get. First theme gun I’ve done and I think I nailed it. Playboy Bunny gun….never would have imagined that request, lol. Attached File Attached File Attached File Attached File Attached File |
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@Tyrant556 What's the body color or shall I ask the color of the receivers and rail?? Looks hot shit............. |
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Just had my PSA No Step on Snake build done in Riptile. Attached File |
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Blast from the past here... did this one for a good buddy back in 2018. It was my first "distressed" job. Literally as far as you can get from what I would do personally on an AR15 build. I thought the ghost of Eugene Stoner would haunt me for even participating... But I have to admit, when assembled, I saw what he was going for, and it's METAL AF! He was absolutely stoked when he saw it, and that made it one of my favorite jobs in memory. If I would have done anything differently, looking back: I would have paid more attention to where one's hands go on the fore-end and accentuated the faux "wear" there, as well as the potential higher "wear" areas on the receiver versus the low spots. Maybe some sort of brown-orange to mimic rust? Or dark crimson to mimic dried blood on the front of the handguard to make it even more medieval :) I think my favorite part was trying to make the polymer stock look believable as a worn metal. I think it was Armor Black over Tungsten, and Midnight Bronze.         
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That looks amazing. Also really makes me want to sit down and learn how to design my own graphics/stencils. |
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Trying out some laser imaging on some parts I had Cerakoted a few months back. Turned out pretty well, picture does not do it justice. Probably would have looked better if the images were bigger.
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Cerakote burnt bronze on the HK USP slide, comp, and magwell. Oddly gets darker in direct sun but so does the factory RAL7008 coyote frame. Attached File Attached File |
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Couple Chocolate Chips and a Distressed Midnight Bronze Attached File Attached File Attached File |
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Camo Job to match a belt: Burnt Bronze and FDE Cerakote and Black Chrome and Socom Black KG Gunkote:  Copper Cerakote with Black distressing then hand rubbed:  
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If some of you put this much fervor into your community or church, instead of arguing with people voting for the same politician, the world would be a much better place. -Skg_Mre_Lght
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Originally Posted By muta4warrior: Just finished this last week.. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/106757/20250121_205810-3441830.jpg https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/106757/20250121_205844-3441831.jpg |
If some of you put this much fervor into your community or church, instead of arguing with people voting for the same politician, the world would be a much better place. -Skg_Mre_Lght
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