Advice for spray painting?

[Reece_Spurs]

Gotcha. For some reason I thought the heatshield was metal.

 

White primer for brown is fine. Red is better but I don't think you can easily get a red plastic primer.

 

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..

 

Cheers again though

[Lozart]

 

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..

 

Cheers again though

 

 

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!

[Reece_Spurs]

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!

 

[Lozart]

Nice. You've made a decent job of that!

[Reece_Spurs]

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 )