AR Lower painting

[grwd]

Not politically incorrect. not at all.

It is, however, rude as hell.

youre right, I apologize for the rudeness guys.

to each his own

 

[Jedabug92]

youre right, I apologize for the rudeness guys.

to each his own

I got no hard feelings and thanks for the apology.

 

[tRidiot]

One thing to keep in mind regarding paingting lettering and rollmarks... some companies don't engrave them very deep and this may make it tough to get them looking nice and even. My Anderson lowers I did one and didn't like how it looked (hate the horse rollmark anyways), and a couple of my Spike's lowers had some shallow parts as well. I think these may have been blems, but I don't remember, honestly. I did the red scorpion on one of my Rise Armament lowers, and it is very shallowly cut, which made it very difficult to remove the excess without taking the paint out of the grooves.

I'll go pull some out of the safe and see if I can snap some decent pics for ya.

 

[tRidiot]

On this one you can see a few spots in the lettering where the paint just would not stay, if I applied enough pressure wiping to get the excess off. It's not a huge deal, though. Also, the rollmark itself is cut pretty shallow, and it's pretty busy, too, so it's hard to get it to look nice. I would have like to do the pyramid in white with the scorpion in red, but the way it's cut the paint runs into the lines too easily. I gave up and did it all red.

It's hard to tell with the photos, but doing white underneath really makes the brighter colors stand out a lot more. Doing the eyes only on the skull for the Punisher logo wasn't bad, it was slightly more difficult with the Calico Jack.

Oh and the flash makes the excess from wiping really stand out, too, you can barely see the streaks on mine... looks like a little oxidation, is all. If I clean it up with some gun oil, it'd probably not show at all.

 

[aviator41]

youre right, I apologize for the rudeness guys.

to each his own

Thats stand up, man. Thank you.

as far as shallow marks, a thicker enamel paint can help. I've also seen it done with a syringe and epoxy paint like they do enameled lapel pins.

 

[shelshy]

Ok ill swing by a hobby store and browse.

Good thing you work for one.....or at least did at 2pm today......

 

[Jedabug92]

Good thing you work for one.....or at least did at 2pm today......

as of 1720 i do still work for them and the discount helped haha

and i picked up a bottle of dried paint remover and a couple of different colors, would an acrylic top coat be ok with an enamel base coat?

 

[Jedabug92]

On this one you can see a few spots in the lettering where the paint just would not stay, if I applied enough pressure wiping to get the excess off. It's not a huge deal, though. Also, the rollmark itself is cut pretty shallow, and it's pretty busy, too, so it's hard to get it to look nice. I would have like to do the pyramid in white with the scorpion in red, but the way it's cut the paint runs into the lines too easily. I gave up and did it all red.

It's hard to tell with the photos, but doing white underneath really makes the brighter colors stand out a lot more. Doing the eyes only on the skull for the Punisher logo wasn't bad, it was slightly more difficult with the Calico Jack.

Oh and the flash makes the excess from wiping really stand out, too, you can barely see the streaks on mine... looks like a little oxidation, is all. If I clean it up with some gun oil, it'd probably not show at all.

And looks good, I like it

 

[Jedabug92]

Will the paint solvent eat the lower?

 

[tRidiot]

Will the paint solvent eat the lower?

Hasn't damaged mine any.