Paint Stripping Guns Gone Wrong

[BigStew]

Agree, the minute a guns painted, I reckon it's target audience for resale diminishes by about 70%, unless it's reflected in a lower price.

Unless it's something like a unique geartech special, paint jobs are very marmite.

There is a relatively cheap Classic army G3 that i can't pull the trigger on due to the camo job

 

[Skara]

There is a relatively cheap Classic army G3 that i can't pull the trigger on due to the camo job

You can do the following:

-Offer a disgustingly low amount because of the paint job

-strip the paint and nicely weather the gun

-profit

 

[BigStew]

You can do the following:

-Offer a disgustingly low amount because of the paint job

-strip the paint and nicely weather the gun

-profit

Stripping guns are a bugger

 

[RYoung22]

Stripping guns are a bugger

I’ll vouch for that,

bought a cheap parts job lot and spent an afternoon with thinners, cloth and cotton buds, finding the sweet spot between a sh**ty desert storm rattle-can job (ideal for all the deserts the UK sites have?) and the manufacturers paint 

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[Tackle]

I’ll vouch for that,

bought a cheap parts job lot and spent an afternoon with thinners, cloth and cotton buds, finding the sweet spot between a sh**ty desert storm rattle-can job (ideal for all the deserts the UK sites have?) and the manufacturers paint 

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Just a reminder to anyone thinking of stripping paint off your gun, if, unlike the man above your guns got a plastic body, DONT use xylene thinners, you'll be left holding a gearbox covered in molten plastic lol ? 

 

[RYoung22]

Just a reminder to anyone thinking of stripping paint off your gun, if, unlike the man above your guns got a plastic body, DONT use xylene thinners, you'll be left holding a gearbox covered in molten plastic lol ? 

very true ? probably should have cleared up that they are metal parts in my last post,

Please don’t hold me liable if you reck a gun following my dodgey methods ?

 

[Adolf Hamster]

Just a reminder to anyone thinking of stripping paint off your gun, if, unlike the man above your guns got a plastic body, DONT use xylene thinners, you'll be left holding a gearbox covered in molten plastic lol ? 

I feel there's an interesting story behind this post....

 

[Tackle]

I feel there's an interesting story behind this post....

Quite possibly, but thankfully not mine lol

 

[RYoung22]

Too late ?

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[Ropeyshep]

Too late ?

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“Never skirmished”

 

[BigStew]

Too late ?

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SIG?

 

[RYoung22]

SIG?

luckily was just a google image search that one ? I wouldn’t be able to bring myself to admit it if I had messed up as bad as the sig-smelter photo

 

[PopRocket123]

SIG?

That was my first guess but what Sig has a removable slide retention pin?

 

[Adolf Hamster]

That was my first guess but what Sig has a removable slide retention pin?

so i was gonna talk about the different features until i browsed the sig catalogue and found this:

https://www.sigsauer.com/store/sp2022-nitron-full-size.html

 

[RYoung22]

so i was gonna talk about the different features until i browsed the sig catalogue and found this:

https://www.sigsauer.com/store/sp2022-nitron-full-size.html

looks like the one to me 

 

[PopRocket123]

so i was gonna talk about the different features until i browsed the sig catalogue and found this:

https://www.sigsauer.com/store/sp2022-nitron-full-size.html

That looks like it. Also I want one