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Posted: 12/23/2010 8:50:48 AM EDT
I have a new project gun and never have come accross this before. It's a Beretta 92FS and has the painted red dot on the slide next to the safety. The finish on the gun is lacking and shows some minor pitting, mostly on the finish but none on the metal yet so I am going to blast to bare metal then KG GunKote it in FDE, possibly cammo with some Tan and Grey but I want to retain the factory red dot on the safety. Any ideas on how to protect it while media blasting and when airbrushing ?
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the heat will remove the red dot. So will cleaning/degreasing solvents. KG the whole thing, and then put a dot of nail polish after it is all done.
model paint is too "soft", but nail polish is hard and solvent resistant. car paint is even better, and KG is even more better. |
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Interesting, never thought about Car Paint. I was surprised to hear that cleaner's degreaser's would remove it. Now that I think about it I have never owned a gun that has had any colored dots and such on it. I cleaned it the other day with some shooter's choice and I actually scrubbed it with a parts brush but that did nothing, I know some of the newer spray cleaners are really brutal but I have not needed that yet. True, a good blasting job is going to strip it all. I was thinking how to get that flat even smooth paint job in the dot...car paint... I think i have seen some car paints coming out with pen type applicators like you find some of those epoxy paint pens using today. That may just be the trick to get a smoth even and tidy circle. I may even try some masking material, rail road modelers have a masking material you can use that will wash away with any overspray/paint. If I mask off around the hole that should give me a perfect circle in case I get too heavy with the hand. Rich |
| just dip a tooth pick in some red auto touch up and then touch the center of the hole depression. if the gun is level it should spread nice and even. i usually get it on the first try but if you get too much or too little paint on the toothpick you can just wipe clean and start over. its not hard. |
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