Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles Yet another 'I painted my stock' thread

Came home from the gunshow with two nice HS precision stocks that had been pillar bedded to replace two tupperware stocks, but I wasn't a fan of the original camo. I decided to finally make an attempt at Krylon GAP camo.

Here's the original camo pattern

First, I used rubbing alcohol to de-grease the stock and taped off the recoil pad and bedding/etc. Next came an "adhesive promotor". Then a couple coats of primer. Then a couple coats of tan Krylon. After the tan base I used a small foam brush and did it freehand trying to copy a picture of a gap camo stock that looked the best out of the million that are out there. I had the pic up on a laptop in front of me, but the two stocks came out different as its hard to keep them exactly alike. I thought that the stock should be mostly OD green, so I started with tan as the base, did black next, and OD green last. I did a couple light coats of satin clear minwax polyurethane for a more durable finish.

Here's the OD green being applied

Here's the finished products.

And the assembled rifles.

I'm pretty happy with them, and it was even kinda fun.

Awesome job.

I like them. That is a big improvement over the original.

Looks good and the most important word...... Fun

Looks great!

Chit yeah. Those are nice!

I like this too

Very nice job!

Looks good man!

Wish I had that kind of talent, I'm afraid I'll fook mine up and have to send em to Karnis.

Gunner

That turned out well!

what paint were you using for the green and black?

Steve,

What did you use for adhesive promoter?


Casey

Nice.

Good job.

Tan, black, and OD green were Krylon "Camoflague"


"Adhesive Promoter" spray can from Ace Hardware

Great work, man!

thanks for the info

Nice job. Thanks for the information.

Those are nice looking stocks right there. How'd the minwax poly do? Easy to brush on with a foam brush?