What's the plastic primer for? If it's going to be sprayed black you should have got grey plastic primer - might be worth trying to change your order. It's not the end of the world but it will make a difference to the final colour.
Not to plug my own video but i have a disassembly video for the G&G M14 EBR short version, ignore the bit about the EBR body work however the rest of the gun (barrel, gearbox etc) is relevant to you.
If its only the outer barrel, upper and rear stock painted then i would recommend you disassemble the gun and strip the paint from them.
You can use an aggressive stripper (lol) on the outer barrel as thats made of metal and won't be harmed by the stripper, the upper blue bit and rear stock use Fairy Power Spray otherwise using an aggressive stripper (lol again) may melt parts. I used an Aggressive stripper on my Kriss Vector and it melted certain parts so had to do a complete spray paint job on the gun.
You may find that once you have stripped the gun it will look stock again and thats as far as you may want to go.
I would recommend your prep your working area to ensure it is clean, sand lightly and wash the parts to be sprayed, apply 1 coat of primer and allow to dry (ideally 24hrs), sand down lightly and apply more primer, allow to dry, do at least two coats of primer and sand it again before Spraying colour. Spray the colour you want and allow to dry same as primer, apply at least 3 to 4 coats of paint with light sanding between coats. Once you have a sufficient number of coats on it you can apply some lacquer to the spray paint to protect it.
I spent a a small amount each day for a fortnight, prepping the work area, cleaning and washing parts, priming, sanding, spray painting, sanding and applying lacquer to my Vector and now it looks the mutts nuts a sort of two tone sparkling black and bronze look it still has a few rough parts here and there from the aggressive stripper, nothing i can do about that but on the whole it looks great.
Following on from that ^^^^ "aggressive stripper" chemicals like Nitromors are fucking horrible and should not be used unless ABSOLUTELY necessary. The two tone paint used on your rifle is most likely Krylon and does NOT need such harsh and dangerous chemicals. If you decide you absolutely MUST use a paint stripper instead of fairy power spray and bit of elbow grease then I suggest you seek out one of the more environmentally non toxic types like Biostrip http://www.biostrip.co.uk/paint-stripping/biostrip-20-paint-stripper-spray.html
What's the plastic primer for? If it's going to be sprayed black you should have got grey plastic primer - might be worth trying to change your order. It's not the end of the world but it will make a difference to the final colour.
Tbh, the feel of the heatshield is the only thing I dislike about the gun, feels cheap and makes a "plasticy" sound when gripped. I did find out though, that apparently the real version is actually plastic aswell..
Tbh, the feel of the heatshield is the only thing I dislike about the gun, feels cheap and makes a "plasticy" sound when gripped. I did find out though, that apparently the real version is actually plastic aswell..
I believe the real one isBakelite so not "plastic" as such but yes. Technically it's a thermosetting plastic but not plastic like your one is. Still. Happy painting!
Been a while guys, but got round to this eventually, so thought I'd update those who care
So, started off with disassembling the gun, which was fairly straight forward. Sorry about the mess...
Once I removed the heatshield I soaked the relevent parts in the fairy power spray, which did nothing at all So I decided to sand the parts down, took a good 2-3 hours to do it slowly and properly, didn't want to use too low grit paper, so took my time, after the parts were decently sanded down, applied the primer, about 40 mins per coat, 3 coats overall.
It got very dark very quick Decided at the very last minute I wanted the plastic part to be black instead of brown, looks better IMO and more authentic, so considering I had grey primer for the metal and white plastic primer for the heatshield, I gave the polymer heatshield 2 coats of white plastic then 2 coats of grey primer as I didnt want to spray black paint over white primer, was a massive risk but hey ho..
Finished results (That i'm ridiculously proud of tbh, although not perfect)
Considering i've never done anything like this before, i'm well chuffed with the result, messed up the black on the barrel at one point, sprayed too close and it run and looked terrible, tried to wipe it but made it even worse, so let it dry, sanded it slowly for an hour, and started again. Little bits here and there that aren't brilliant but nothing major, i'm just very overly critical and my own worse critic most of the time!
Thanks for the help to those who offered advice, made the process so much easier!
Cheers mate, not 100% happy, but i'd have to be an expert for it to be perfect Not a too difficult paint job, but as a first time, i'm very pleased with the outcome, so thanks to you guys on here that gave me advice, otherwise I probably would have just painted it straight over the blue stuff with normal wal paint (Joking of course, but you get my point )
