Had to post this as I was suggested by about 10 other people here that engine paint works great for firearms.
I bought a vz.58 rifle about 5 months ago, if anyone is curious about this rifle there is a great article on it here.
Some quick specs
7.62X39
bolt lock back
milled reciever
large ejection port
Here are some pics of the rifle BEFORE it got a serious overhaul.
I couldn't stand the grey oven paint finish, it just looked terrible. I was told that it was chosen for tactical reasons, which made sense, but I just couldn't stand it.
I stripped the rifle completley and used paint stripper on the reciever. About 3 hours of stripping and scrubbing I got about 90% of it off! The other 10 percent, I just didn't want to finish as it was getting really labor intensive. As a consequence of this the texture of the pieces of paint that were left show up on the new paint job. Do I care? no, its a combat rifle and it actually came out of the box with dings and scratches all ready (they use all surplus parts for building these) so it wasn't a bid deal.
I did about 5 coats on the barrel/receiver assembly which left me with this
It turned out pretty good, so I baked it in the oven at 375 for about an hour to cure the paint, this was about after 4 days of letting it dry. I aquired some polymer parts such as an upper and lower handguard, the pistol grip and I bought a metal folding stock.
I finished the job by degreasing, sanding, and rubbing down the remaining parts with steel whool such as;
The bolt carrier
The folding stock
The dust cover
The upper handguard
After baking those for an hour as well, I put it all together and was left with this;
I still havent shot it yet, and I'm waiting to finish up the magazines as well, they are all prepped and just need a final degreasing and steel whool rub and they'll be ready for paint as well.
Just wanted to thank all of you who assured me that using heat paint was a good idea, I thought so too.
thanks
I bought a vz.58 rifle about 5 months ago, if anyone is curious about this rifle there is a great article on it here.
Some quick specs
7.62X39
bolt lock back
milled reciever
large ejection port
Here are some pics of the rifle BEFORE it got a serious overhaul.
I couldn't stand the grey oven paint finish, it just looked terrible. I was told that it was chosen for tactical reasons, which made sense, but I just couldn't stand it.
I stripped the rifle completley and used paint stripper on the reciever. About 3 hours of stripping and scrubbing I got about 90% of it off! The other 10 percent, I just didn't want to finish as it was getting really labor intensive. As a consequence of this the texture of the pieces of paint that were left show up on the new paint job. Do I care? no, its a combat rifle and it actually came out of the box with dings and scratches all ready (they use all surplus parts for building these) so it wasn't a bid deal.
I did about 5 coats on the barrel/receiver assembly which left me with this
It turned out pretty good, so I baked it in the oven at 375 for about an hour to cure the paint, this was about after 4 days of letting it dry. I aquired some polymer parts such as an upper and lower handguard, the pistol grip and I bought a metal folding stock.
I finished the job by degreasing, sanding, and rubbing down the remaining parts with steel whool such as;
The bolt carrier
The folding stock
The dust cover
The upper handguard
After baking those for an hour as well, I put it all together and was left with this;
I still havent shot it yet, and I'm waiting to finish up the magazines as well, they are all prepped and just need a final degreasing and steel whool rub and they'll be ready for paint as well.
Just wanted to thank all of you who assured me that using heat paint was a good idea, I thought so too.
thanks
