There's no accounting for taste...

[GBExpat]

I would like to know what everybody's thoughts are on some of these more 'extreme' examples of gun refinishing.

They do not appeal to me.

I much prefer firearms with their original OEM finishes unless the OEM finish is silly.

 

[MistWolf]

A painted on finish of ANY color will look cheap and ugly. Paint just doesn't belong on a gun.

MistWolf: Photoshopped ugly guns don't count. The top one witht he huge NV scope is clearly not real.

Ok, they got me on the purple & green monstrosity, but the white one with the chainsaw is real. I've seen video of that one being shot- sans chainsaw

 

[Double Naught Spy]

Interesting how so many people have Henry Ford sorts of mentalities when it comes to firearm coloration.

Personally, I think it is a bummer that we can't readily get numerous variations of color just like are now offered with vehicles. Many of the coats can be made in different colors, but black, desert brown, or green are about it.

No, I don't like all the decoration that I have seen on guns, but I to applaud the folks that make the guns what they want them to be.

 

[Sun Tzu warrior]

could be worse;

 

[Mooseman]

The 1911 in post #11 grossed me out. I tried to figure out why I found it so unappealing. I just realized the colors and grips strongly remind me of the big, long legged centipedes I get in my basement. Ewww

http://http://www.google.com/imgres?start=90&hl=en&biw=1280&bih=892&tbm=isch&tbnid=hCZYv1zVztJPnM:&imgrefurl=http://howanimalsdoit.com/2011/12/01/the-freaky-biology-of-the-centipedes-that-have-invaded-my-apartment/&docid=JBz5pZpktgzw0M&imgurl=http://howanimalsdoit.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/house_centipede_21.jpg&w=734&h=545&ei=3zo2Usy0F8ez4AOlp4HwCA&zoom=1&ved=1t:3588,r:1,s:100,i:7&iact=rc&page=5&tbnh=176&tbnw=217&ndsp=25&tx=125&ty=82

 

[hAkron]

Ewww, yeah. I think those "furry" legged suckers are called Silverfish.

 

[tommy.duncan]

I am building 2 AR15's for my wife and I (sequential serial numbers) for our 1 year anniversary (that was 6 months ago). Hers is getting pink furniture, but, cerekoting a m1911 is a cardinal sin!! There are some things you don't do!!

 

[browningguy]

I don't really mind what people do to their own guns. I may find them aesthetically challenged but I'm sure they feel the same about some of mine.

 

[hAkron]

How about when people paint the lettering on their guns? I hate that too.

 

[Zach S]

I look at "custom" painted guns the same way I look at vehicles. Some folks will pay a lot of money for a paintjob that looks like crap to me...

I'm sure some of the gun finishes will end up being fads, like the pastels on hot rods of the 80s.

I'm more of a distressed and flat black kinda guy myself. I have a tacky desert camo Mosquito to match the lady's tacky pink one (you know, a his and her set). Otherwise all of my guns look normal. Parkerized, painted, anodized, or blasted stainless. Or a combination...

Now the M45 looks decent, probably because it's more of a flat color than the original picture posted.

I think the lack of orange peel on the M45 makes it look a lot better as well...

 

[el Godfather]

Well whatever makes one happy- I have no problem with what color people prefer on their weapons.

Personally, I think a paint job ruins a weapon escpecially like its done in OP. That said, at the same time people like tan or earth tone guns that are factory original. I happen to like Sig Sauer P226 Scorpio Elite in such.

 

[Texan Scott]

My guns are whatever color they came from the store in. Nobody else is SUPPOSED to see them, as a rule. I know, I'm boring that way.

That 1911 DID look like it'd been cleaned with a Snickers bar, though.

 

[wally]

I could care less about what others do to their property. Although I don't think its a particularly good idea to paint up a gun to make it look like a toy.

 

[HexHead]

Oh man is that a Springer? Come on... Do that to a beater Rock Island if you really want to ugly up a gun...

That's a GI Champion. It is their beater gun, and no better than an AMSCOR.

 

[okey0]

paint away, to each his own

 

[boricua9mm]

 

[Jaymo]

^ So, is that milk Glockolate or dark Glockolate?



Nope, not a silverfish. That's a house centipede. A voracious predator of spiders.

And, I disagree. Not everyone's opinion is valid. That's what the liberal pukes want us to believe.
There are plenty of idiots in the world, and their opinions are worthless.
Just listen to Obama supporters.

FWIW, the gun in post 1 looks like it was painted by someone who REALLY likes Yoo Hoo chocolate drinks.

I don't know why Colt didn't use a black nitride finish on that new .45.
And, leave that damned silly tacticool rail off. It looks like something out of Borderlands 2.
In fact, all these crappy paint finishes remind me of the guns in Borderlands 2.

 

[jim243]

Too many people are busy with Photoshop on this tread.

Jim

 

[browningguy]

I don't know why Colt didn't use a black nitride finish on that new .45. And, leave that damned silly tacticool rail off

Maybe they built it that way because that's what the guys that gunfight for a living wanted in a pistol?

 

[Mitlov]

I thought this snakeskin-painted Glock 21 was pretty cool.

http://gunblast.com/Greg_Glock21Snakeskin.htm

And Jaymo, there's a difference between moral relativism and aesthetic relativism. Morality isn't in the eye of the beholder, but yes, beauty is. What "looks good" is 100% subjective.

 

[Mooseman]

I admit I really like the snakeskin Glock. Nothing jarring about it colorwise and I like how the pattern seems to soften the squareness of the pistol.

 

[el Godfather]

^^may be good in snow to camouflage it.

 

[Fishbed77]

How about when people paint the lettering on their guns? I hate that too.

I'm with you on that. It looks silly to me.

 

[DBryant]

Baricua beat me to it. That chocolate pistol is exactly what I thought of when I saw that 1911. I think that one might look better in real life than against that lime green background. It's hard to tell. I have seen some that were pretty ugly, or at least I thought so.

On the other hand, I would love to have a pistol painted OD Green with the flying tigers style shark teeth on the forward part of it. Probably done in an earthtone color to avoid making it look like a toy.

To each his own, I guess.

 

[Mitlov]

Someone's already tried the Flying Tigers mouth. I'm not sold on it, but it's not awful either

Flying Tiger 1911