This is probably my weirdest, if not my ugliest, looking gun. I painted this Mosin Nagant several years ago in anticipation of a zombie apocalypse bayonet charge at a blogger shoot I attended (bear in mind, you could get these for about $75-$80 back then).
The paint on the wood looked just like I had anticipated but the paint on the metal was supposed to be a crimson red - I imagine the guy at the paint factory who made up the color charts was a bit colorblind. Since I only had gotten the paint a few days before the event, I had to use what I had on hand and hot pink it was or nothing. Then in January 2017, I started to strip the paint with what wound up being a rather ineffective spray on stripper. So, I shelved the project.
Somewhere in the two years since, I bought a can of liquid paint stripper to be applied by a brush. I also put that on the shelf and forgot all about it until last night. I don't know what got into me last night but I felt an urge to start the job and that's what I did. Most of the metal is 99% paint free now, only the front barrel band, which I cannot figure how to get off of the barrel without removing the front sight (and I have no clue how to do that) is still covered with pink. I'll strip that, while on the barrel, later today. Then for the wood which I am guessing will take quite a bit longer than did the metal, at least to do it right. Once all the paint and original top coat are off of the wood, I'll refinish it and while it may never look pretty at least it will look better than it did when painted.
The paint on the wood looked just like I had anticipated but the paint on the metal was supposed to be a crimson red - I imagine the guy at the paint factory who made up the color charts was a bit colorblind. Since I only had gotten the paint a few days before the event, I had to use what I had on hand and hot pink it was or nothing. Then in January 2017, I started to strip the paint with what wound up being a rather ineffective spray on stripper. So, I shelved the project.
Somewhere in the two years since, I bought a can of liquid paint stripper to be applied by a brush. I also put that on the shelf and forgot all about it until last night. I don't know what got into me last night but I felt an urge to start the job and that's what I did. Most of the metal is 99% paint free now, only the front barrel band, which I cannot figure how to get off of the barrel without removing the front sight (and I have no clue how to do that) is still covered with pink. I'll strip that, while on the barrel, later today. Then for the wood which I am guessing will take quite a bit longer than did the metal, at least to do it right. Once all the paint and original top coat are off of the wood, I'll refinish it and while it may never look pretty at least it will look better than it did when painted.