Originally Posted by
Doc Safari
LOL. I was watching a YouTube video last night where the guys from Nutnfancy were shooting a worn cop M4 that they loved cuz it looked all "Boba Fett" 'n shit. Guess it must be a cultural thing, like deliberately finishing your weapon to look like a battlefield pickup. I just don't see it. My guns have honest wear (some horrendous), but I've never artificially aged or rattled canned any gun. I agree that battle worn SOF rifles look badass, but they have legitimate tactical reasons for such. For some civilian living in an apartment in the middle of town to try to make his gun look like an SOF battlefield relic just seems like wannabe behavior.
But hey, people are correct: It's your rifle. Paint it if you want to.
I don't object, by the way, to professionally rendered camo paint or other finish jobs. If I did I'd have to sell my Colt M4 with factory Vietnam tiger stripe camo. It's waaaaay cool. I'm just saying that taking your AR out in the backyard with a couple cans of Krylon is just bubbafied amateurish nonsense. Sorta like pasting fake bullet holes on your vehicle. It's like when you built models as a kid and instead of using the factory professionally rendered decals you tried to freehand paint the insignia on your airplane or whatever. Just looks like someone with too much free time and probably not much artistic skill.
Originally Posted by
Circle_10
While I don't object to the idea of painting one's guns, I do agree that artificially aging or wearing your paint job to look "battle worn" is quite lame.
Yeah I never suggested anyone purposely giving their blasters a "worn look" like the acid / stoned washed jeans of yester year. That is all kinds of gay. I was talking about dudes using rattle cans to paint their rifles and the paint wears off over time due to actual use of the gun.
There are plenty of LARP'ers and posers on gun forums, try looking through the various tactical gear pic threads. We have more than a few on here.
I also think anything "artistic" on a firearm which I view as a tool is gayer than Richard Simmons with a Shakeweight but to each their own. YMMV.
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