Painting JG bar10

[Josh95]

The JG BAR 10 has a sort of rubber exterior, im wondering if i need some sort of special paint?

I want to paint it an OD green similar to the M40 standard colour.

Can anyone recommend a good paint to do it? available at homebase or B&Q

 

[Colonel Kurtz]

From my experience of JG this is rubberised car-dashboard spray-paint on top of standard plastic, you'll want to remove this layer first with fine grade sandpaper (you'll need to buy a roll of it as the rubber ruins a sheet of sandpaper pretty quickly. I used a one grade of sandpaper to start, then a finer grade to smooth it all out once the majority removed). Putting paint straight on top of this rubber layer will cause the rubber to perish and come off, looking pretty shoddy.

Not sure what homebase/b&q sell, but Halfords sell 'camo' paint that's very good. Best bet would be ordering some Krylon Fusion paint @ about £7 a can from someone like Firesupport.

Give it thin coats and then leave it to dry for a week, (will be dry to touch after hour or two but not properly set for a week so don't use/touch it until that's passed for best results)

This will all be best done by taking the whole gun apart so you have just the stock

 

[Josh95]

From my experience of JG this is rubberised car-dashboard spray-paint on top of standard plastic, you'll want to remove this layer first with fine grade sandpaper (you'll need to buy a roll of it as the rubber ruins a sheet of sandpaper pretty quickly. I used a one grade of sandpaper to start, then a finer grade to smooth it all out once the majority removed). Putting paint straight on top of this rubber layer will cause the rubber to perish and come off, looking pretty shoddy.

Not sure what homebase/b&q sell, but Halfords sell 'camo' paint that's very good. Best bet would be ordering some Krylon Fusion paint @ about £7 a can from someone like Firesupport.

Give it thin coats and then leave it to dry for a week, (will be dry to touch after hour or two but not properly set for a week so don't use/touch it until that's passed for best results)

This will all be best done by taking the whole gun apart so you have just the stock

okay thank you for the detail