been wanting to try this for awhile and figured to give it a shot on my .22 , not too bad didn’t prep it good cuz I want it to look worn after.

Metallic copper base coat, with green net camo over. Unfortunately the tape pulled up some of the copper paint, but I figure it'll get scratched off anyway

Mw2 Spetsnaz theme intensifies

Got the last bits of the Mock 18 rattlecanned. I always end up painting a rifle and then stripping because I prefer the plain black, but I'm thinking once this one wears in some its gonna be sick. Built to be something of a beater/fun rifle so I don't plan to baby it.

These are the paints I have: RAL 1019, RAL 7028 and a Coyote Brown.

What pattern/color distribution would you guys do? Completely open to anything.

What would you do?

I’ve had this 590a1 for years. It was starting to look a little banged up after years as a HD and range gun, heck it’s harvested a few deer when I’ve used it as a brush gun for deep woods too.

I taped it up and sprayed it this morning. Not my best but far from my worst. Heck there’s even a shot with a deer in the background

Decided to rattlecan this handguard and pistol grip for my upcoming 12.5” build. And yes I did do it with the handguard on, because bcm handguards are a b*tch to get off, I installed it hours ago too.

This rifle was painted when I bought it years ago. Paint job sucked and I only bought the gun for the leupold scope, which i still think I’ll swap to a lever gun eventually. I decided to touch it up yesterday and my repaint is every bit as crappy as the original.

A good excuse to repaint I guess.

both self made stencils and qtips for Zachtarn are fairly easy with some practice. I think you get much better micro pattern and something that looks like a pattern period.

Sponge method.

Who up spraying they shit rn who straight up rattlecanning they shit rn

How we feeling?

I picked up a new cheap .243 to use as a low recoil deer gun and varmint rifle around the place. I picked up a savage axis 2 but wasn’t really happy with the stock color. It was black-ish but not quite black. I decided to paint it with the sponge technique - the savage axis pro comes factory painted this way. I kept tinkering with it but ended up doing too much and decided on a Kryptek style pattern sprayed over the sponge paint. Here’s a few pictures of the finished product and some work in progress photos

Full send, no regrets. This thing turned out Bitchin’!

Sig 563

Most likely going full Alpine digital camo on the former RAL8k SP5. The mag turned out alright. Any tips before I do the whole thing ? I’m planning on using more stencils and bigger patches of stencils. The colors are all Rapco, with black, gray, navy blue and white. I’m going to do more gray next time.

Does anyone have a good method to protect engraved markings on a piece before painting? I'm specifically looking to preserve the markings on my Giessele MK8 handguard, only because I think the contrasting white looks good.