Just painted the furniture on my rifle with brownells alumahyde II, turned out good, still curing. Going to do up the mags today :grin:

Pics or it didn’t happen… :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

Yea it did, wish I could put it together, cure time is like a week or so depending…I’m not using the oven to bake it, just pure patience. Wish me luck lol

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I’m interested to see it when it’s finished. I’m starting a new build and want to add some color.

that looks amazing! was it difficult? do they offer a wide variety of colors? is it ok to use on my lower receiver?

Yea it was easy as Sunday morning. You can paint the receivers, I might do tans or something for those in the future. I would take them apart tho. If your not comfortable with that there is insane amounts of youtube videos on assembling and dissasembling all the different parts. Application was pret…

They offer quite a few colors, all your flat camo colors, black, gray, also make gloss finish in some colors. Brownells doesnt usually have them all in stock at the same time. Found you can buy it from ppl stores on Amazon n ebay. Pricing is the same in the end. I taped over my screw holes on the ha…

tan would be cool, i would really love a vibrant color like violet

I dont have any experience with bluing. You could buy a can of the flat black. Also youtube painting rifles, lots of ppl paint without disassembling. Also lots people use other brands of paint like rustoleum or krylon. Isn’t going to be as durable but offers tons of color options. Both make high hea…

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