theflightyellz
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Would love to know as well, assuming it's a variant of Mr. Hobby ran through an airbrush?
can you send me some measurements of the real piece?
thank you ! i just need to know the length of the piece, i can scale it down to hat size and the rest will follow up. thank you for your help!
No problem. just let me know which measurements you require and I'll get them off to you. (it will have to wait until tomorrow though)
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Cheers guys. For those asking, here is my method for creating the gun metal paint job. After masking the grips, I gave it two coats of mid grey primer. I used Hycote Grey Plastic Primer, but I’m not sure about the availability of this spray paint outside of the UK.
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Next I painted the whole thing with black fast drying oil paint (I used Winsor & Newton Griffin Alkyd Fast Drying Oil Colour) then wiped as much of it off as possible with a soft cloth. You will begin to see the gun metal effect at this point, and it also creates nice dark tones in the recessed areas that you can’t reach.
The final step is to rub graphite powder into the surface with a soft cloth. This is where it really takes on a gun metal effect. You can buy graphite powder, but I prefer to go for the home-made method of scraping the lead off a pencil with a scalpel. You can vary the intensity of the shiny metallic effect on selected areas by adding more graphite powder and buffing it more thoroughly. (on edges, screws etc)
And that’s about it.
For the darker areas, I used Hycote Extreme Heat Black spray paint, and simply polished the surface with a soft cloth to achieve the desired level of shine.
If you have any further questions, feel free to ask.
Great stuff Candykiller. You have certainly given me a few ideas for when I get round to doing mine. I am still wondering if there is a way to add working lights :confused
Can I ask if the graphite powder technique comes off if handled after application?
The PRC6/6 was a modified version of the PRC6 made under licence by Lorenz in the late 50s/early 60s for the Bundeswehr (and used by some other European countries like Italy, The Netherlands and Belgium).Ah, right - that one also has the rivets on the clasps. There must be slightly different models then. I agree that over-painting would work fine with yours, but my one was thick with layers of rough flaking paint, so I kinda had to strip it.
I didn’t plan to do much in the way of rebuilding on my water blaster, but the blank area at the front of the barrel was bugging me, so I’ve built a new front piece and I’m much happier with it now.
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That's awesome!! How did you make that?
From this kind of this? Do you know what the brand/size is please
No, it was just a simple circular ring shape. Sorry, I don't know which brand of tape I used. It was just found in my drawer full of old junk that I put aside for jobs like this. The central piece was a part from an old army tank model kit.
btw did you simply drill out the barrel?