Anyone ever paint your own gun?

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Got an older shotgun that was once painted. Wanting to redo the paint job. Was wondering what color schemes anyone has used for base coat, layer, etc. what do you use to remove existing paint?
 
my daughter wanted her trap gun painted.. got a guy in town that paints hot rods to do it.. used a really good hard automotive paint..he just sanded the stock really good before painting it..
 
I've painted a couple of my 870s. The Krylon Camo spray paint works fairly well. I use the tan color as a base coat, and then makes some stencils out of cardboard and use the brown, and olive green camo paint and generic flat black paint to break it all up.

There is some paint out there that actually bakes on for a hard finish, but it is pricey. The Krylon seems to stay on very well, but insect repellent on your hands will eat it off.

I've also done a couple of guns with the fabric type of the camo tape. It works very well. I don't like the non-fabric camo tape as it is much too shiney.
 
scn said:
I've painted a couple of my 870s. The Krylon Camo spray paint works fairly well. I use the tan color as a base coat, and then makes some stencils out of cardboard and use the brown, and olive green camo paint and generic flat black paint to break it all up.

There is some paint out there that actually bakes on for a hard finish, but it is pricey. The Krylon seems to stay on very well, but insect repellent on your hands will eat it off.

I've also done a couple of guns with the fabric type of the camo tape. It works very well. I don't like the non-fabric camo tape as it is much too shiney.
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Look into the mossyoakgraphics.com website I put that on my gun it is easy and not shiny. I was like you and didn't want the shine and I found there product I plan on doing a few more guns with it.
 
outdoors crazy said:
Got an older shotgun that was once painted. Wanting to redo the paint job. Was wondering what color schemes anyone has used for base coat, layer, etc. what do you use to remove existing paint?
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I kinda want to do the snake skin look by using fish net hose paint the base black and use OD green as the top color
 

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