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What is the base coat? And where do I find it?
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For me its either cerakote or krylon. If I am going to take the time to do a full prep with a sanding a stock, detailed degreasing or abrasive blasting I will go with cerakote, I just have not had real good luck with the durability of duracoat. If I just want to throw some color on a beater gun its gonna be krylon. Cerakote base with sponge job krylon Cerakote metal work with krylon stock. All duracoat and its looking pretty ragged now, no better on wear and tear than krylon and a lot bigger pain in the butt with the mixing.
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varminstinc, I'm thinking about doing a Montana stock, and I dig that sponge one. I'm thinking black with light grey sponging? Or maybe white sponging.
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Rustoleum textured and a clear coat has worked for me.
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Sponging is super easy. Put on a base coat and then do about 30% of the stock in a second color. Take the first color and sponge over the second color then take the second color and go over the first, dont even bother to let any of the coats dry. Add a couple accents and your done.
I have done a lot of stencil work and some tough patterns (like fricken digital) and the sponge job takes about 5 minutes from start to finish and looks better than all of them.
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What do you think about doing a solid matte base, with light grey or white splotches? Maybe even both grey and white. I wouldn't need to sponge black in there at all after that?
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[img:center] [/img] Krylon......... W Did it for buds 10 year old little girl. ADL 243 with a leupy shorty.. Thing shoots lights out. You should have seen her face...
W funny you say "her" soon as i saw that stock i thought my daughter would love it.....she loves bright green...
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What do you think about doing a solid matte base, with light grey or white splotches? Maybe even both grey and white. I wouldn't need to sponge black in there at all after that? If you do a black matte base you can just blot the light grey over it but it really pulls it together if you do some bigger splotches of grey and then sponge black over that. Take a look at manners website for their new molded paints, they basicly use a solid color and sponge over them with one or two more colors but do not blend them, looks like they use a paint roller as their sponge. They even have one in black with a dark grey and light grey. http://mannersstocks.com/color-and-finishes/
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To resurrect an old thread, I have considered doing this for a couple of years, and finally gave it a shot with a plain jane Savage 111 in .243. Using a base of Krylon Fusion and a Rustoleum Stone texture then multiple coats of clear matte, it was transformed into this in just under 1.5 hours with drying time then an overnight curing. Pretty happy with the finished product for the time and money I've got in it. Fun project and I'm considering doing something with a T/C Venture in .300 WM that is as ugly as any gun I've ever seen but shoots as well as any gun I've ever owned.
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That looks great.
I am going to do a Rem 700 ADL that shoots great but is plain UGLY. I like the sand speckle. I wonder how it will wear?
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May not wear worth a darn, but five minutes of paint should take care of that.
Lord knows its a cheap and easy way to get something that looks better than factory.
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