FINALLY got my AR built - and painted =)!

[razoredgeknives]

hey guys, this project took long enough! i kno my wife is ready to get the downstairs bathroom (i.e. make shift painting room) back

. the paint job is a combination of duracoat and cerakote. i painted the base desert tan in duracoat only because this was before i knew anythin about cerakote. after that i switched to cerakote, which i ordered the FDE and OD green air dry to accent the paint job. I used a combination of grass and burlap to paint them.

so this is what i did... i build my AR w/ the stats listed below. then, i also bought a 22 conversion. to finish it off, i built a 6.5 grendel upper (20" sabre defense barrel - same paint scheme) with a harris-s bipod and a Bushnell elite 4200 6-24x50 illuminated mil-dot scope mounted on it. Now i have 2 guns in one! what do you guys think?

i kno, i kno... i shouldn't have mounted my magpul front sight to the gas block, but thats the only place i can for now until i get a quad rail

the bolt action is my brother in laws that we did at the same time. sorry for the pic quality, will post more soon.

Upper: CMT receiver, Daniel Defense CHF 16" barrel, Adams Arms piston system, LMT bolt, Magpul flip-up front and rear sights.

Lower: Aero Precision mil-spec lower, hogue grip, Magpul UBR stock, Magpul PMAG.

TO VIEW PICS go to https://picasaweb.google.com/11494806046...614299874591330

 

[BERTMAN77MK2]

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really like your camo job! I was not aware u could mix Duracote and Ceracoat! saw another thread where the guy used a Krylon Camo job and sealed it with Duracoat! wanting to learn to do camo and digital camo myself

 

[scsbronco]

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looks good!!I need to learn to do the digi-camo too!

 

[Exemer]

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That is one sexy bitch. Tell me, did you encounter any problems when u were painting. I am doing mine in a few weeks and want to know if anything seemed to comeup and pose a dilemma. Im am going for a forest ATAC version for my AR15. Gonna try it first of my throw away hogue stock.

 

[razoredgeknives]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: scsbronco</div><div class="ubbcode-body">looks good!!I need to learn to do the digi-camo too!</div></div>

i did a digi pattern on an old 22 my bro in law had... just did it with krylon as a test to see how it would turn out and this is what i learned. your base coat will be the the paint that you will see the least of when the paint job is completed (if you do it right). each subsequent coat will cover more and more of the old ones. don't do it like i did and make the base coat the one i wanted to see the most of!

i believe the best way to do it is using the blue masking tape and cutting your own digital pattern. each time you tape/paint, leave the old tape on their and add more tape, and then paint on top. also, another tip... make sure when u do your digi pattern that the lines of the digital pattern are horizontal and verticle, it will look the best. in other words, don't put them at random angles all over your weapon.

maybe i'll do my saiga 12 with a digi pattern and post it at some point in the future

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Exemer</div><div class="ubbcode-body">That is one sexy bitch. Tell me, did you encounter any problems when u were painting. I am doing mine in a few weeks and want to know if anything seemed to comeup and pose a dilemma. Im am going for a forest ATAC version for my AR15. Gonna try it first of my throw away hogue stock.</div></div>

no problems whatsoever! the air dry cerakote seemed to work very nice.. i have seen posts where people seem to have problems with painting cerakote, but i found it to be just as easy as the duracoat, in fact, more so since i didn't have to mix any hardener. i went with the air dry because 1. i wanted to paint my barrel and the air dry is rated to withstand 1700 degrees and 2. i wanted to paint my optics and pmags.

i'll tell you, the biggest amount of my time was in the prep, took FOREVER. i didn't sand blast my barrel since that was already parkerized, but i did blast the barrel on my grendel (which isn't posted yet) and the bolt action rifle (which was starting to rust in the chamber etc) which now looks better than new!

what did i learn for next time? here's somethin i found out from a local gun smith... don't sand blast the receivers since they are annodized aluminum. the anodization actually is what makes the aluminum hard. if you do blast them, everythin will start to loosen up and you will have a lot of play in your receiver pins etc. get you one of the red brillo pads from auto zone (which is an industrial strength brillo pad made for the automotive field) and buff any and all of the aluminum (make SURE to buff the pin area's and cracks and crevices real good, i had some peeling around one of them). the green brillo pad won't work so well as it will leave a green residue that is a pain in the rear end to get off. also, get you a big box of non-powdered disposable gloves! i was anal about not touching it with bare skin after it had been degreased, and also was careful to not touch it with a gloved hand that had touched something i had touched with my skin.

what air brush did i use? $15 from harbor freight and you can't go wrong! (http://www.harborfreight.com/adjust...-782A-E011-B31E-001B2163195C&mr:referralID=NA) you can adust the amount of air out put and amount of paint comin out. has been FLAWLESS for me. hope this helps you bro!

 

[flar10]

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i really like how you changed up the scheme over the length of the gun

 

[rpk762]

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That is a really nice paint job.

 

[razoredgeknives]

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thanks guys! it wasn't hard, just time consuming =D gonna post pics of my completed 6.5 grendel in other area of forum under the pictures.

 

[untouchable13]

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I also played around with digi camo on a 22LR and it takes a crap load of time. When cutting the pattern stack 3 strips of two inch masking tape, that way you get 3 patters each time you cut.

your camo paint job looks great by the way.

 

[GAP-10]

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Looks sweet!

 

[BLK ridge]

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Really turned out well, Nice job!

 

[razoredgeknives]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: untouchable13</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I also played around with digi camo on a 22LR and it takes a crap load of time. When cutting the pattern stack 3 strips of two inch masking tape, that way you get 3 patters each time you cut.

your camo paint job looks great by the way. </div></div>

thanks for the tip bro! definately make use of that info when i paint my saiga.