Pictures of painting your rifle. It is easy!

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El Rojo

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I have painted a couple of my rifles and they really look good after I am done with them. May latest project was repainting my Rem 700 now that I have new rings, a base, and a stock. Here is the original job.

http://home.bak.rr.com/elrojo/pictures/1000yd2.jpg

Then I painted it by putting on a base coat and then using a card board cut out to make odd shapes.

http://home.bak.rr.com/elrojo/pictures/700camo1.jpg

This is the rifle in its hybrid stage just prior to its being repainted.

http://home.bak.rr.com/elrojo/pictures/700prt1.jpg

And finally this was just by painting the base coat and then just doing light sprays with the additional paint with no kind of real pattern. I think the final project has been my best job.

700prtc3.jpg

http://home.bak.rr.com/elrojo/pictures/700prtc2.jpg
http://home.bak.rr.com/elrojo/pictures/rojo1000.jpg

Even the goat likes the rifle now that it blends in better and does not look like one of those menacing sniper rifles.

http://home.bak.rr.com/elrojo/pictures/700goat2.jpg

I even slapped a coat over my Remington 870's and they turned out really great too. If you want to make your old gun blend in a look new, just buy some flat military spray paint and have at it. It is fun and you will usually be pretty happy with the results. Good luck.

[Edited by El Rojo on 05-24-2001 at 04:25 PM]
 
El

Looks good. I've been thinking of doing the same to my rifle.

I'm sure you realize it takes very long for your post to load (5 mins @ 45.6K). You may want to remove some of the images and/or link the pictures instead of inserting them in the post. Not very many people are going to wait 5 minutes (or longer if logged on at a slower baud rate.)
 
I know!

I knew that Schmidt, but sometimes you just want to live in a life of denial. I guess I will link them. Thanks.
 
Beautiful job

I plan on doint the same general thing to a surplus M14 stock I got from Fred's. I'm going for a tan deserty look. Thanks for the pointers.

Regards.
 
Rifle looks like it was done by a professional!

One question though: It looks like you have a HS Precision stock, why HS instead of a McMillian A3 or new A4?
I've been thinking about getting a new stock and was trying to decide between the two.
Was the deciding factor price, fit, availability, quality, or just a general preference?
 
El,

Man, you went full tilt. I would have at least left 700prtc3.jpg as an image.... give every one a small taste and then they'll go to the others that are linked. :D
 
Price and Bedding.

I couldn't really find a model like the HS PRT25 in the McMillan. I found a really good deal on the HS through Sniper Country. I also liked the idea of the aluminum bedding block, a feature the McMillan didn't have. I have heard from some that even HS needs bedding, but since the factory stock was an HS, I was already satisfied with its performance.

Schmit, why do you have to make me into a sheeple? now I have to go back and do exactly what you said and leave one on. The horror, the horror.
 
I think there must be some kind of link between gun nuts who live in the same county, El Rojo and I meet up on the range and roughly 1/2 of the guns between the two of us are painted.

Here's two of my ARs where I used "Bowflage" brand paint to do the two of them, thing I like about the Bowflage is that it's removable so if you want to keep redoing patterns as the area around you changes through the seasons you can repaint without excessive build up on the rifles but it's not an extremely durable finish. In my case if it wears off, similar to "holster wear" on a pistol, I just touch it up again as needed.


Having taken a photograph with the wrong exposure and then scanning the photograph is somewhat responsible for the reason why the picture doesn't do absolute justice to the camo job, the AR15 on the left virtually disappears when it is slung next to a 3 color desert camo pattern.

ar10-15standing.jpg


Here's a slightly under exposed picture of the two guns on my lawn, if you can imagine what the camo jobs would look like with the two pictures combined so that the lighting was correct then you can get an idea what the camo is like in person.
http://home.bak.rr.com/varmintcong/ar10-15.jpg


I gotta get a digital camera so I can remove the scanner element from the equation when it comes to posting pics on the net.


Oh, and El Rojo, you need to email me, I've got access to some squirrel land and depending on how the first one or two shoots go I'll find out if I can bring a buddy out, I'll try and sell it to them by saying something like "I work best with my spotter" or something like that. Even my dad wants to do along with me on a squirrel shoot. It's so hot out these days, THANK GOD I GOT A CAMEL BACK!


There's a SWAT competition out at range for the next 2-3 days, I'm hoping that a friend of mine will give me a call so I can go out and watch it with him tomorrow but if he's busy I won't get to go watch. I think there is also an action rifle match at the range on Saturday which I might go shoot with irons.



And finally, I notice you still haven't painted over that SHINEY GOLD RING on the scope! LOL, still don't have the heart to paint over that beautiful gold ring huh? No worries, you know that all I had the heart to do on my rifle was paint the scope caps. Guys, we both have 6.5-20 Leupold Long Ranges on our rifles, painting one of those things will leave you feeling like you've got this huge lump in your throat that you can't swallow no matter how hard you try.
 
I got mine from Fred's.

I just ran out of about three colors on my last run of guns. You can get it from Fred's M14 stocks. Look him up in Shotgun News or at Fred's M14 Stocks. It really is easy and there is nothing to painting your guns. I highly recommend it if you are a hunter. And if you are not, it is really fun to show off your camo guns at the range. For some odd reason people think it is cool! Me too!
 
Camoflage

Hello!

El Rojo, I like you camo job--it certainly looks better than the same old black and black.

You may want to add more contrast. If you look at the picture of you(?) holding the rifle, note how little of the brown and black you can see. The rifle just looks green.

For a long time, I have been gathering info on how to paint my rifles.

The advice I have collected was 4in to 6in vertical stripes maybe with thin, irregular vertical "bengal stripes" in between. The vertical stripes would be in 3 (or 4) colors--choosing between 1-2 cool colors (greens) and 1-2 warm colors (tans and browns). For example, 2 browns and 1 green for desert and vice versa for forest. If you are in a cool color area, the cool colors blend in and the warm colors contrast (or, again, vice versa). This "breaks-up" the tell-tale outline of the rifle. The narrow, black "bengal stripes" (do an internet search on "sticks 'n limbs") further confuse the shape.

I am trying to add a MSPaint picture of what I am talking about...

View
 
That does it.

I'm painting mine this weekend before Dianne Feinstein finds out it's still legal to paint your rifle any color or combination of colors you want. (You can see the liberals wincing at the sound of those words.)

Enjoy it while it lasts.

Regards from PRK.
 
Has anyone painted a synthetic Savage stock? Does it peel or hold tight?

James4,
That's nice and I agree. I also think that is the best way to break up the stick like shape. You just have to be carefull not to have too much contrast or it will stick out with movement.

Here is something of interest to add to your data from the Marine camo study that is under way to change their uniforms;

"Although different shades and hues of green can be found in any forest, true green is not common - therefore, a target indicator. The same can be said for true brown, which is composed of equal parts of true red, true yellow and true blue. Shades of brown are more commonly found in nature than green.
Preferred camouflage uses medium value colors. Medium value colors have a greater tendency to make use of ambient light reflected off surrounding objects...A medium value brown will absorb some of this color and reflect back the rest. The result is a slight shift in the brown's perceived value to match the environment..... Medium value brown generally comes close in hue to most common natural colors. Black is rarely found in nature, but most observers register shadows or dark colors as black."


[Edited by racegunner on 05-27-2001 at 12:20 PM]
 
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