Refinishing a firearm.....Colors?

[Squished]

What's the most common way to add color to an AR15 lower receiver?

What I'm looking to do is after I have it refinished in black I want to make the SAFE in white and the FIRE in red as well as make the logo on the magwell in red. Any suggestions or how-to's to do this? I've googled it but can't seem to find anything on letters/logos.

 

[fbirdquik6]

actually ive seen it filled with crayon and it actually looked pretty good lol

 

[Squished]

No kidding? I would have never thought! I'm gonna go fishing through my nephew's crayon box tomorrow night when I'm watching him.

 

[trophygrl]

what about plain acrylic paint?

 

[szaino]

This is covered in many gun forums. Go check AR15 forum.

One basic way is to:

1. clean the area

2. apply paint to lettering with an artists brush, keep it as neat as possible but dont worry about overflow at this point

3. after the paint has set up a little but not totally take a clean flat rag dipped in thinner and gently rub the area over the lettering so that you clean the overflow but leaves the paint in the lettering

 

[Squished]

That won't ruin the black finish?

 

[szaino]

Here is a link to a thread on AR15 forum which explains various methods.

http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=3&f=4&t=418152

 

[JoeT]

I use white out for the white and nail polish for the red. a little wd-40 takes the "overflow"

 

[Urj]

I use testors model paint with a very tiny brush. Wipe off any excess with a rag dipped in solvent. Comes out great and has held up so far.

 

[Squished]

if anyone could post pics of some finished products with various methods that would be great. Thanks!

 

[Steve_P]

I've heard that lacquer stiks from brownells work well.
I want to try this myself...it's just that every time that i go to place a brownells order, I seem to forget to add the stiks to my order.

Oh well, maybe next time.

Steve

 

[Furious]

Use paint pens w/ a fine tip.