Anyone spray paint/rattle can their guns?

[Sasquatch]

They need to make rattle can duracoat..

Don't they do that already?

 

[Sasquatch]

DuraCoat® Standard Colors - Blacks - Aerosol Application

www.duracoatfirearmfinishes.com

 

[Outrider]

Only if they are fubared to begin with. Have taken more than one bolt action from scarred to camo'ed using a sponge and Rustoleum camo paint. I did just bake on a dark burnt bronze color on a brushed stainless VG6 Gamma for my .22 mag and it turned out great.

 

[Glenn B]

This was in pretty dismal cosmetic condition, so when I learned the blogger shoot I'd be attending in NH would have a zombie apocalypse charge; so, I painted it with spray paint. Neither color looked like it did on he can top. The pink was supposed to be bright red and the green a more zombie green than faded barf green. After the charge and a couple or few years of getting knocked around it looked like this. I tried to sell it with lots of lookers but no takers:

So, I decided to refinish it to make it look kind of, sort of, almost like the original. I sold it to one of the first folks who looked at it at a gun show and that person got an excellent price compared to the going prices for them at the time. This is what it looked like after refinishing.

I showed the buyer pics of how it looked after painting, before the refinish, and he at first did not believe it was the same gun.

 

[candcallen]

There is a special place in hell for people who molest milsurps.

Just sayin. Generally speaking.

 

[Sasquatch]

There is a special place in hell for people who molest milsurps.

Just sayin. Generally speaking.

Its sandwhiched right between Catholic priests and Boy Scout leaders

 

[PinnedandRecessed]

I’ve seen some guys get some good results with spray paint. I’m also thinking of trying some duracoat.

This color seems off though. It was supposed to be more of a neon pink, but it’s coming out more “fire truck red” under direct sunlight.

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[CaliGunner]

This was in pretty dismal cosmetic condition, so when I learned the blogger shoot I'd be attending in NH would have a zombie apocalypse charge; so, I painted it with spray paint. Neither color looked like it did on he can top. The pink was supposed to be bright red and the green a more zombie green than faded barf green. After the charge and a couple or few years of getting knocked around it looked like this. I tried to sell it with lots of lookers but no takers:

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So, I decided to refinish it to make it look kind of, sort of, almost like the original. I sold it to one of the first folks who looked at it at a gun show and that person got an excellent price compared to the going prices for them at the time. This is what it looked like after refinishing.

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I showed the buyer pics of how it looked after painting, before the refinish, and he at first did not believe it was the same gun.

I think you did a good restore job personally. Not surprised it sold.

 

[Txhillbilly]

Being raised / worked in the custom automotive and motorcycle industries, I've painted many firearm's and composite stocks with rattle can, air brush, and by hand with lacquer, enamel, epoxy paints, and alcohol inks.
The trick to a good lasting paint job is the preparation that is done on the surface before actually painting.

A KRG Bravo chassis that I hand painted with alcohol inks, then finished with 3 coats of matte clear.

Custom 6.8 SPC II painted with rattle can and automotive paints with an air brush.

Custom 223 Wylde painted with automotive paints with a paint gun and air brush.

 

[Orbie]

As I’m reading this thread, I have some Krylon flat khaki that’s been begging to get sprayed on an 870. Just waiting for some time off and some extra energy to knock it out.

 

[Fishkiller]

I personally don’t see the need. But I suspect there is the cool factor and some folks like to mess around. I suck st painting anyway. Some of the pics do look nice

 

[EZ-E]

I never realized there were so many colors of "black". I will say when I was in the Navy we had a guy on the ship that was so black he looked green under florescent lights.

Colors: SOCOM, Vltor Black, Semigloss Black (HK), German Flecktarn Black, Gloss Black, Thailand Marine Black, Combat Black, French Army Black, Black Oxide, Slightly Darker Black, Matte Black, Rem 870 Black

 

[leVieux]

I once “spray-painted” a cheap wartime wood stock on a really nice Anschutz .22 rifle action & bbl.

Gigantic embarrassing mistake !

I was about 14 way back then. . . . . . .

 

[vmax]

Savage 110 243..I took the stock off and did this camo job..I was looking for the original Bushlan style. I used a set of sponges to dab on the top coats then sealed with a low gloss sealer. Then I took #0000 steel wool to degloss and smooth it out. It has been very durable

 

[Lonesome Dove]

I airbrushed a few stocks for people and 2 or 3 for myself. Then I realized I favored nice or cool over Trendy.
Webbing is as far as I take it any more.

 

[scattergun6]

Many, many firearms should never be considered for painting. Even though I have DuraCoated several guns, they have all been at a customer's request, or in such poor cosmetic shape that they needed sprucing up...I agree that milsurps should never be messed with...it's revisionist history and shouldn't be done. A good bluing on the metal and decent looking wood, whether walnut or other, beats a painted surface every time.
However, I dislike black synthetic "tupperware" stocks and routinely DuraCoat them, and also fill the hollow buttstocks with an expanding foam insulation to get rid of that hollow sound they make when struck. Some folks love the look, and others...not so much. To each his own. That's why we are all engaged in this hobby...to enjoy the artistry and function of firearms, and to make them our own. Too many different characters with diverse tastes here for anyone to dictate to others what their guns should look like.

 

[CaliGunner]

Being raised / worked in the custom automotive and motorcycle industries, I've painted many firearm's and composite stocks with rattle can, air brush, and by hand with lacquer, enamel, epoxy paints, and alcohol inks.
The trick to a good lasting paint job is the preparation that is done on the surface before actually painting.

A KRG Bravo chassis that I hand painted with alcohol inks, then finished with 3 coats of matte clear.

Custom 6.8 SPC II painted with rattle can and automotive paints with an air brush.

Custom 223 Wylde painted with automotive paints with a paint gun and air brush.

Damn. That’s some pro work!

 

[Orbie]

To each his own. That's why we are all engaged in this hobby...to enjoy the artistry and function of firearms, and to make them our own. Too many different characters with diverse tastes here for anyone to dictate to others what their guns should look like.

Well said

 

[Sasquatch]

Damn. That’s some pro work!

I've seen @Txhillbilly's work up close and personal - that alcohol ink rifle in his first picture is gorgeous, and I thought it was a nice laminate stock until he told us otherwise. Man is truely an artist.

 

[motorcarman]

I use DURACOAT Matte Blue on all my AK finished receivers.

I used it on a Ruger that sat underwater.

Looks OK.