The paint is Norell’s Moly Resin. I though the Flat Brown was a bit to reddish so I cut it with about 10% black and got what I wanted. Hell, lets call it Hershey Bar Brown.
This rifle is a beater made with parts from an old Nessard Kit circa 1991(mostly the barrel) and a factory blem Oly upper with pits from bad anodizing. It was hideous but functional. The anodizing was very weak too. Basically, the rifle was made from leftover parts.
There is some good stuff inside. I am running a PRI Fatboy Gas Tube, an MGI RRB and a Wolf +10% Recoil Spring. This was what it took to get the empties timed to eject at 4 O’Clock. The rifle runs great. The Magpul BAD works 100% with postive hold-open on last round. I ran lancers today with 100% positive results. Outside of initial teething when first built becuase I had to polish the park out of the chamber, the function has been 100% for almost 20 years of service.
The safety was coated black. I wanted the safety to stand out a little bit for obvious reasons.
Notice even my beater rifle has the World’s Finest Combat Sling!
For those complaining about a wobbly BAD, a dab of RTV inside the part that attaches to the release pad will fix that.
Looks like your paint job worked well; at least as well as the “hideous” subject would let it.
Really, who cares about appearance if it does what you want and does it well.
Overall, I’d say… cool.
How did you bake it?
I would like to do some refinishing but not really thinking baking in the kitchen oven would be good.
Have thought of getting some heating duct and making a vertical “oven” heated by an electric hot plate.
Not sure what color though; straight black or maybe OD; I am in general a fan of OD.
You mean to tell me that this rifle will hit a target? there is no way. It will self destruct any second. No, No, no. I know you said you built it 20 years ago. No matter. And you obviously don’t run it “hard” because it is still in one piece
I like it. Simple, effective, and light. and colors match your AO not some Afghan-a-land mountain.
I baked it in a spare oven at 300 degrees like the instruction with the Norells paint directed. Of course this was applied with an Airbrush.
I would do one side of the upper assembly and then turn it after thrity minutes and do the other side. Repeated with lower. I stripped everything from the lower but the Bolt Hold Open, Reciever Extension and the Trigger Guard. The upper was left as is except I put foil over the gas tube and the front and rear sights. The whole rifle was previously coated at the individual part level in black except for the recievers.
The sling is a Blue Force Gear Vickers Combat Applications Sling.
I ran drills yesterday including a bunch of transition drills while I was ensuring positive bolt hold oben with the BAD. All my kit worked 100% except for one dud round in my M&P 15-22 that was clearly the ammo.
I was so rusty after this hard winter, I could hear myself creaking.
Looks great and matches your environment. Because most of the action is happening now in Middle Eastern countries is why tan rules with the tacti-cool crowd. If you’re in Florida why make your rifle look like is belongs in Syria.
Frankly, for an eastern decidous/coniferous forest, I have always felt dark brown and green were the two dominant colors.
I made it a bit more brown than green to match the fall, winter and early spring. The late spring, early fall and summer take care of themselves.
Still, as Katar once pointed out, I really didn’t NEED to paint it anything other than black, I just though I would do it for funzies and to try and find something different.
Still, I wish vendors would offer furnature in a dark brown, something a couple shades darker than coyote.
Since it is a parts rifle, I am stuck with the above-mentioned OLY A1 factory blem upper(Heck, I think I gave $15 for it!). I am going to get a MAGPUL MOE illumination kit and mount a light eventually.
Thanks to everybody for the feedback. PS, don’t tell Markm it is an Oly…an Oly that had the POS original, brittle as glass FCG sent to the scrapyard!
Really, it is an amalgam of a Pre-Ban Oly rifle that I bought for a pre-ban lower and a Nessard Kit that was originally on a PWA lower I pulled to put on an A1 project because it lacked the A2 features. The OLY barrel and FCG were garbage and discarded. The current barrel is from the NESSARD kit Circa 1991. The barrel is way overgassed, it took a PRI Fatboy Gastube, MRG RRB and a Wolf +10% spring to bring it into time. Believe it or not, it is heavy under the handguards! The Reciever Extension is Mil-Spec, the furniture is obvious and the BCG is a Smith Enterprises notched ramp AR-15 BC and Bolt head.
The Charging Handle is a PRI Gasbuster hand-me-down I replaced with a BCM #4 on another rifle.
