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Pattern: Camouflage painting template reusable grass pattern stencils green camo DYI for scrapbooking (found online)
Cristian's Instructions: It need 24 hrs to cure (under a heater ) and after that 10 days to wait until you putt the scope on... one coat of desert paint , one with the coyote camo pattern and 2 coats of clear.
Final Results:
Curtis' Instructions:
1. Clean the gun where you plan to paint (I used acetone)
2. With painter's tape mask the "important parts" of the gun that you don't want paint on ( the trigger, muzzle, charging handle, optic glass, etc...)
3. Take a piece parchment paper and painter's tape. Sandwich the paper with the painter's tape (both sides of the paper)
4. Draw your camouflage patterns with pen on the tape… random squiggles (look at images of tiger's patterns to get the idea)
5. With an exacto knife cut out the patterns that you drew (press hard to cut thru both sides) NOW YOU HAVE MIRRORED CAMO STICKERS!
6. Place the stickers flowing in THE SAME direction
7. Once you like your design time for paint!
8. SHAKE THE CANS FOR TWO MINUTES! then spray completely
9. Wait for it to COMPLETELY dry. Then mask a similar pattern in between the previous taped sections on the gun again with your stickers
10. Paint your second color and allow to dry
11. Wrap random rags and mesh again flowing in the same direction as the previous stickers
12. Spray your last color allow to dry
13. Remove all but the tape EXCEPT the tape covering the "Important parts"
14. Finally spray flat clear coat
15. Exercise your second amendment rights and be competent and safe with your firearm!
Final Results:
Process Pictures:
Painting: Coat 1, Coat 2, Coat 2, Final Result
Eric's Instructions:
1. I don’t have a Before pic… it was just a black police model 870.
2. The process is pretty cool… You put down one or two colors as a background, let that dry a day or two, and then use a bottle of Dawn dish soap to put on the pattern you see.
3. Then another coat of paint in a different color, right over the top of the Dawn, let that dry.
4. Then do a second round of Dawn, and then another color of paint. There are some good YouTube videos highlighting this.
5. Obviously, I masked off the ends, threads, and moving parts. The 1st photo was before the wash, with all of the painted dish soap on the gun.
6. After letting that last coat dry for at least an hour, just hose the whole thing off in the backyard. The dish soap will come off and it will have masked anything that was under it to get the pattern you see.
7. I used a hairdryer to get all the water dried up after hosing off the soap. Then I’ll just put a final clearcoat on.
Final Result:
Process Picture: "Painted Dish soap"
Ray's Instructions:
Final Results
Before:
Process Pictures:
