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Posted: 9/7/2004 9:27:11 AM EDT
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I do like the socks but not the colors - what was the enviornment the painter was attempting to blend into? The back ground looks too light for anything but snow but then the sharp black stripes don't make sense. I doubt that at a distance this would blend.
Here's some of my latest project ... and I'm by NO means an expert at all. I'm aiming for the desert so I use the three color desert camo as a model. The dirt is my backyard which tends to have a bit more brown then what I'm attempting to match.  Haven't been able to come to grips with painting the M1A rifle's metal.  Just a 10/22 so the paint went on the scope, rings, and rifle. Trigger assembly not done yet.  The Mini-14 done up too. |
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Posted: 9/7/2004 1:48:52 PM EDT
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Nice job on your rifles. I guess what I did color wise and style was just done for looks. I don't intend on hiding the rifle in ANY natural environment, I guess I just wanted something different. Frankly I'm not sure about some of the styles and colors DSA offers in Dura-Coat either from the standpoint of functional camoflage. BTW, the color is not as light as it looks, it's kind of a light sand colored khaki and the masked areas from the twine are a combination of dark green, brown and black. The shot isn't detailed enough to show it well. It would possibly blend in with the marshes on the NC coast fairly well? Thanks for the input-
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Posted: 9/7/2004 2:43:50 PM EDT
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What kind of coating did you guys use.
I've seen some people say they just used krylon spray paint. |
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Posted: 9/7/2004 2:56:16 PM EDT
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Now those look nice
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Posted: 9/7/2004 3:26:17 PM EDT
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Nice job, I like.
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Posted: 9/7/2004 3:39:18 PM EDT
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That's pretty much what I did-After roughing up the stocks and degreasing with acetone I used a total base coat of satin hunter green Krylon Fusion because that paint is supposed to be specially formulated to bond with plastics. The rest of the coats/colors were done in the Krylon ultra-flat camo colors. I finished it off with about 3 coats of satin acrylic clear coat for durability. It was my first stab at camo'ing anything, thanks for the comments- |
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Posted: 9/7/2004 7:48:16 PM EDT
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Plain old Ace Hardware Krylon ultra-flat and Brownell's aluma-hyde.
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Posted: 9/7/2004 9:54:20 PM EDT
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Is Aluma Hyde a clear coat Paul? I hear about it being tough but I don't know anything about it- |
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Posted: 9/9/2004 7:37:40 PM EDT
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alumahyde is available in several colors, and supposedly is about as tough a finish as you can get out of a spray can, non cured. As in, you don't bake it on, just let it dry (which can take days from what I have read). I am going to do my FAL in alumahyde when it materializes.
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Posted: 9/14/2004 10:46:29 AM EDT
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Spray paint. paul, paint the metal, come to the dark side!
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