Flat Dark Everything
I painted my John Deere rifle several years ago as a demo gun.
With all of the craziness going on, and considering I'm no longer offering any refinishing work, I decided to turn it into a functional gun. I had only ever run it as a 22lr with a Ceiner kit and I have a dedicated 22lr upper. It took several weeks but I found the parts I needed, stripped the old paint, laid down the new and bought some new furniture. I never expected the Magpul FDE to be such a close match to the FDE Norrell's I had on hand.
Now I just have to decide if I want to paint the Comp M4. It'll require using DuraCoat which I don't have on hand. I don't think I'll be in a rush, going to shoot it first and see if I like the Comp in this configuration. I haven't seen anyone install a continuous rail onto an A2 upper so I thought it would be a bit unique in that regard.
I'm pleased with it. I completely disassembled the rifle, including the rear right assembly and coated everything individually except for the front sight post, rear sight aperture and the rear sight leaf spring which were coated black.
I painted my John Deere rifle several years ago as a demo gun.
With all of the craziness going on, and considering I'm no longer offering any refinishing work, I decided to turn it into a functional gun. I had only ever run it as a 22lr with a Ceiner kit and I have a dedicated 22lr upper. It took several weeks but I found the parts I needed, stripped the old paint, laid down the new and bought some new furniture. I never expected the Magpul FDE to be such a close match to the FDE Norrell's I had on hand.
Now I just have to decide if I want to paint the Comp M4. It'll require using DuraCoat which I don't have on hand. I don't think I'll be in a rush, going to shoot it first and see if I like the Comp in this configuration. I haven't seen anyone install a continuous rail onto an A2 upper so I thought it would be a bit unique in that regard.
I'm pleased with it. I completely disassembled the rifle, including the rear right assembly and coated everything individually except for the front sight post, rear sight aperture and the rear sight leaf spring which were coated black.
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