Official Stippling Thread:Stippled PMAG's & Other Parts, let's see what you got!

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[Wolf Spyder]

I have found over the years that stripling works better if you bevel the tip of the soldering iron. Then use a dabbing motion or a touch and slightly smear motion.

[Jellybean]

This is what happens when you have a lot of time, but not a whole lot of money...

I had tried stippling one of my Pmags a while back after seeing it done here, and liked the effect. But I always wanted to do something more unique, to make the mags more "mine" I suppose...
Anyway, I ran across the article on painting Pmags on Tactical Yellow Visor, and was like *lightbulb*.

Basically for the painting process, I followed Rob's instructions- soaked the mags in denatured alcohol, blow out, dry overnight.
Then I just wrapped each mag in clear packing tape, and cut out the areas I wanted to paint.

Each mag took 2 coats of paint. I used Rust-oleum Satin, as I could not find the standard RO spray in anything close to Foliage Green, and I wanted to match the accessories of my rifle (however, the standard does come in Khaki/FDE so I may do some in that eventually). I chose RO as from the article on TYV it seemed the best.

At first I had a mild panic attack, when it appeared the paint wasn't adhereing [sp?] correctly- I could easily scrape it off with my finger. I re-read the bottle, and realised it had a 24 hour dry/cure time. Duh.
I let it dry for the rest of the day and overnight, and tried scraping it off again. Much better- I really scraped at it, and it still wasn't coming off- much. For some reason it doesn't like the baseplates as well...
I did get a little paint seapage around the edges of the tape, but with the end user being me, myself and I, it's no big deal.
I haven't had the guts to really beat them up yet, but it seems they should hold up fine-besides, everything painted is going to wear eventually.
Afterwards, I spent some time stippling the areas I wanted.
End result:





Edit- guess it's not so unique anymore...

[wahoo95]

You must have been bored

[bsmith_shoot]

I really like that look man. I would like to see the same thing done using FDE mags and Black paint.

[Jellybean]

Yes. Yes I was.

FDE with black higlights would be sweet- there was actually someone in the AR pic thread that did that with swapped Pmag parts, and also a rifle painted like that. Looked real good.

Edit- My bad- I didn't even notice there was already a thread for this. Guess I should've looked harder...

[jonconsiglio]

Darker FDE KAC rail covers

[Inkslinger]

i had honestly never thought about doing this. I was going to get some grip tape and cut it to fit my pmags. good way to save some money!!

Grip tape would be a hell of alot quicker. Atleast for mags.

[ALCOAR]

I imagine the same people that believe grip tap provides an equal to good stippling also believe velcro is a good solution for tape switches.

The tape is very temporary and never does near the job stippling does and it's just tacky as hell...and not in the sticky way

[DoctorTran]

So, now I think I'm going to have to do some stippling on my PMAGS when I get them back from Smith & Wesson. (had to send them in when I sent in my M&P-15 for repair. Wasn't loading properly)