Stock Painting

[hiroller]

I'm thinking of painting one of my synthetic stocks and would like some advice/suggestions. I've painted gun parts in the past using moly teflon, gun-kote and some other paints but never on a synthetic stock and would like an inexpensive option in paint. I noticed the walmart here has tons of Krylon paints for plastic and a bunch in some nice camo colors as well. I'm thinking of getting a couple cans, making a few runs over the stock (depending on what pattern I decide on) and then doing a few coats of Krylon clear coat. Anyone here use that stuff before or can recommend something else that's easy to obtain, as well as any other tips/tricks?

[yel01z06]

I would recommend before you put any color on it to go to your local auto parts store and get an adhesion promoter for plastic and spray that on first it will increase the durability of your finish as well as make it easier for the paint to stick.the other thing is you will want to make sure you really clean the stock well to remove an oils or release agents that are impregnated into the stock itself.

[longislandhunter]

Hey Jay,

I've painted a couple of em,,,,, first thing I did was clean the entire stock with denatured alcohol to remove any film of oil, grease or dirt.  Then I used the "camo" spray paint available at Walmart (and other places) ,,, I believe it was in fact Krylon.  I sprayed the stock with the light grey paint then used the darker colors (black, green and brown) over the first coat.  When I was all done I sprayed on a couple of coats of the clear Krylon  and let the stock dry and cure for 48 hours before handling it.   Came out really well.

The denatured alcohol cleaning worked well and the spray paint  didn't have any problems at all adhering to the synthetic stock......

I've since moved up to air brushing for my camo work (thanks to my buddy Ed aka:Shadow) and it of course comes out much nicer,,,, but the spray cans will do a good job if you take your time and plan out your pattern........

Here's a link to a post I made last year with pics of a B-3 stock I camo'd with spray paint.....

click here

Well, guess I didn't do such a good job with the link,,,, guess you can copy and paste it... Not quite sure what I did wrong  ,,,, sorry  :( 

Jeff

Edit:DanoInTx fixed link above:)

 

 

[shadow]

Prep is the most important on plastic and senthetic, some put flex agent's in thier paint but I never have just prep as mentioned and it should last you a long time. Camoing, set your shadow's first and layer with darker shades as yo go. The key is to break up the lines of the shooter. This my winter camo ShadowSport, synthetic stock. She's posing over a rabbit but had to cut him out, wrong forum for varment's lol. Ed