View Full Version : Crayone fill-in method works quite nice!
http://www.saintsworth.com/upload/lower1.jpg
http://www.saintsworth.com/upload/lower2.jpg
http://www.saintsworth.com/upload/lower3.jpg
.17 cent crayons from Wal-Mart and this is what came out.
I'm very pleased! Was going to do Testor's paint but that required to much energy, money, and effort for something that can easily be done with a crayon and look just as good.
Wow that looks very nice considering you used crayons. The nice thing is that it's easily removable if you decide to change colors, or remove it all together.
C'mon. It looks cool and you can easily identify safe and fire. :rolleyes:
I gotta ask, why?
I think it looks great. I did this to a couple of my AKs. Yes, some people do not like the look, but I do. I like the contrasting colors.
I must admit, you did a great job and it turned out better than mine. Maybe I need to upgrade my crayons. lol.
I haven't been able to figure out the reason for this either. Hell, I don't even think it looks good.
Failure2Stop
09-16-08, 12:21
The point at which you find yourself drawing on your rifle with a crayon you gotta seriously question the purpose of your firearms.
But hey, if you like it, rock on. Just don't be upset when someone else doesn't.
Don't listen to them, Fusion, they're just jealous. It looks great, and I want to do this, too.
Maybe Rob and Failure would have liked it better if you'd done it in Coyote Brown and Flat Dark Earth?
Happily, I've got a 3-year-old an dozens of colors to choose from...
Ben
Still not sure why people would willingly make their guns look like toys, but eh. Each to their own.
It won't look like much after some hard use though. A smudge here, a smudge there..
I gotta ask, why?
I feel like....
I'm back at ARFCOM watching people lick glass.
Still not sure why people would willingly make their guns look like toys...
Doesn't H&K ship their guns with colored in roll marks like this? I don't think of H&Ks as toys...
And sure, it's mostly cosmetic, and it's not to everybody's taste. FWIW, I think it's pretty silly to get all excited about stocks, forward grips, pistol grips, and magazines in various earth tones, but there are plenty of people here trying to make everything match perfectly, as if they're going to take their rifles to a fashion show...
Ben
there are plenty of people here trying to make everything match perfectly, as if they're going to take their rifles to a fashion show...
FWIW... those guys are idiots too! :p
It'll look pretty cool when the gun heats up during real use or in the desert and the crayon starts running down the lower.
It'll look pretty cool when the gun heats up during real use or in the desert and the crayon starts running down the lower.
Yes, well, that's when the Testor's paint comes out...
He started with crayons, and if he doesn't like it, then he can easily remove it. That's the idea, right?
Ben
HAMMERDROP
09-16-08, 14:14
It will melt out during a hot day at the range after several hundred rounds. The wax is not stable enough to deny the heat its way. Good job tho' ...
I like it but I dont think H&K uses Crayolas on their lowers its probably a ceramic paint of some sort, something baked on that will withstand the heat.
Michael
It'll look pretty cool when the gun heats up during real use or in the desert and the crayon starts running down the lower.It's cheaper than Krylon.
yaaaaaaaaaaaay
i colored my guns with crayons
yaaaaaaaaaaay
I feel like....
I'm back at ARFCOM watching people lick glass.
:D
http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=3&f=4&t=395020
Edit: I still pop into the hometown area over there from time to time but the rest of the place is out of control. Way over populated.
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In the Mosin-Nagant/Mauser/Lee-Enfield world this isn't all that uncommon (especially with Mosins, from what I've seen). People like to make the various arsenal stamps, proofs, and cartouches stand out.
I've seen chalk and nail polish used as well.
Parabellum9x19mm
09-16-08, 16:15
a quote from TOS....
Originally Posted By MrMikeM:
I am going to do my lower right now but was wondering if any one has painted the windage and elevation marks on their sights. I know most of you are running optics but I have A2 type sights....
wtf? um yeah, sounds like a fantastic idea. apply as much crayon as possible all over the elevation drum, i'm sure nothing can go wrong
"yaaaaaaaaaaaay
i colored my guns with crayons
yaaaaaaaaaaay"
Roflmao, thank god I wasn't drinking. ;p
Yes it looks very purty,....right up until you actually use it. That is what you bought it for right??
exitinyourhead
09-16-08, 16:40
strange you don't run across so many colts, lmts or noveskes all dolled up like that. :confused:
I guess i can't say much i've got every magpul colored crap on my weapon, chromed out m&p, and two tone EMP with wild grips on it. I guess as long as it doesn't influence function or realiability or if your going to put it on a wall for oohs and ahs, everythings cool.
bullitt5172
09-16-08, 20:12
I haven't been able to figure out the reason for this either. Hell, I don't even think it looks good.
It doesn't ;)
Crayons are for coloring books....
Littlelebowski
09-16-08, 21:05
I don't see too much difference between this and people getting excited over new tactical colors like I've seen in other threads on this forum. Both are silly but tolerable in my book and not worth pages of castigation.
I think it serves a purpose for beginers for one to be able to SEE the safety control and where SAFE is and where FIRE is before it is commited to memory or if it is always in the hands of novices. But other than that and using it on the other roll marks, it is total vanity.
To each his own.
AnimalMother556
09-16-08, 23:26
It doesn't ;)
Crayons are for coloring books....
That's like, your opinion, man. Sorry, I had to do it. It doesn't look good to me either. :D
I think it serves a purpose for beginers for one to be able to SEE the safety control and where SAFE is and where FIRE is before it is commited to memory or if it is always in the hands of novices. But other than that and using it on the other roll marks, it is total vanity.
To each his own.
FWIW, if I do this, I'm just doing the "FIRE" and "SAFE."
Regarding vanity, I doubt that there's anybody on this board who's totally uninterested in the asthetics of his rifle(s). It's not all about looking good, but some of it certainly is.
Ben
Damn, I ain't in the cool crowd now. I guess my tapco scope with white letters makes me look like a airsoft dork too...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v723/raptor660r/100_0087.jpg
coloring a really EXPENSIVE gun doesnt make it any more useful.
coloring a really EXPENSIVE gun doesnt make it any more useful.
Nobody said it did, but does it make it any less useful? If someone wants a pink AR who is anyone trash their decision? People make to much out of small things, I dont see these guys pointing out how silly they think the guys with full out kryloned AR's are. Get over it. Different strokes for different folks. We are all on the same side, right???
Let the man enjoy his gun. If you don't like it no need to be snobby about it.
How about doing the same thing with glow-in-the-dark paint? Just the "safe" and "fire" that is.
C'mon. It looks cool and you can easily identify safe and fire. :rolleyes:
If there is a need to look at the markings training is a severe issue. :)
Littlelebowski
09-17-08, 06:04
Maybe we should bring up all of the threads on here bemoaning the fact that the latest add on isn't in Flat Dark Earth. Or all of the excitement over new tactical colors. I'd laugh my ass off if some of the people in this thread sneering at the crayons are the sames ones getting excited over color coordinated rifles.
We're all on the same side. And I have no sense of color scheme nor can I use crayons or even spray paint so my rifles are stock with black accessories.
I'm interested to know what coloring in a manufacturer's logo has to do with seeing the "safe/fire" markings.
And as others have already said, if you're starting out looking at the gun to see if it's on safe or fire you're already starting out at a deficit. 30 minutes, at most, of dryfire practice will eliminate the need for colors.
Having a tan AR with all the parts matching is nowhere near in the same ballpark as coloring in the logo on your lower. I agree that getting obsessed over "Magpul's green doesn't match Tango Down's" is silly, but there is a use and purpose to ARs that have been Kylon'd or that have colored furniture. There is NO use or purpose to coloring in your logo.
BTW, painted guns look cool, colored in logos look short-bus. :p
It'll look pretty cool when the gun heats up during real use or in the desert and the crayon starts running down the lower.
Interesting converse equation. The more crap that's colored in on a lower, the less likely it is to ever be used to the point that it would heat up enough to actually melt said coloring. ;)
IOW, this guy's rifle (http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g124/totlich/painted3.jpg) will never leave the house.
Littlelebowski
09-17-08, 06:41
Let he who is without schemes of color coordination throw the first stone (that would be me) :D
I need to find that thread where everybody was getting excited about the new cool tactical color. It was a recent thread. And I agree that coloring with crayons is a little over the top but so was the 2 pages of negativity.
It's the internet, and it's a dogpile, but....
When I was first learning to shoot with my uncle, he and my parents walked off to go get some sodas, leaving my brother and I with the guns (we were 15 and 12, not exactly babies). When they came back they found us pointing the guns at the plywood wall behind the shooting bench. Turns out the soda machine was right behind that wall. He smacked us both in the back of the head and said "Rule 4, dumbasses!" to which we replied "but they weren't loaded!" which earned us each another smack and "Rule 1, dumbasses!"
The lesson kind of stuck.
If this dogpile prevents even one winda-licker from coloring in their logo by witnessing the 20+ head-smacks this guy got, then it served it's purpose.
Littlelebowski
09-17-08, 06:50
You and I both know they didn't color on their weapons for "safety;" it was to make their weapons look "cool."
Army Chief
09-17-08, 07:55
I don't see too much difference between this and people getting excited over new tactical colors like I've seen in other threads on this forum. Both are silly but tolerable in my book and not worth pages of castigation.
I find a commendable measure of sanity in these words. Yes, people like things to "look right," and yes, that often leads to outright silliness. I'm not too sure about Crayola, but I think that most of us have at least given Krylon a passing consideration. It is what it is, and I suppose we all have our reasons.
Skill, not style, is the more relevant commodity in our world ... though I suppose there is room for both, so long as the first is clearly in evidence. :)
Chief
Whoa, all those pictures of colored logos on ARFCOM really make me appreciate my SDI lowers that much more.
SABRE DEFENCE
NASHVILLE, TN
USA
Coolest logo yet.
Littlelebowski
09-17-08, 08:23
Whoa, all those pictures of colored logos on ARFCOM really make me appreciate my SDI lowers that much more.
SABRE DEFENCE
NASHVILLE, TN
USA
Coolest logo yet.
Mine's even cooler because the white lettering is faded/chipped :D
Mine's even cooler because the white lettering is faded/chipped :D You got robbed if you bought one with white letterning. Both of mine are black, real black. Natural black, even. ;)
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