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

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

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.

Yeah, I dont think the bottom one is,(checkering gives it away) but that is sure a great job on the painting.