painting airsoft rifles

[Jayhad]

Originally Posted by swatt13

if the trades are that rare and your that concerned about em, i would seriously consider takeing them down to and engraver and have them do it profesionally, of course i would and youd need to dissassemble the rifle down to the reciever lol. i was going to do that with my usp before i sold it. i painted over my hurricane body and scuffed away the paint to expose the laser etch, it did the trick, but i actually scuffed some of the etch away in some spots, so i would just get it engraved and do yourself a favour and up the resale of your gun in that same step.

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[Lerch]

If you do want it painted Ken, let me know, I can take it to my shop and give a gooder.

My suggestion would be to leave the lower receiver naked and paint the upper and forward bits.

[Manaconda]

put tape over the markings. There done.

[six4]

Originally Posted by swatt13

if the trades are that rare and your that concerned about em, i would seriously consider takeing them down to and engraver and have them do it profesionally, of course i would and youd need to dissassemble the rifle down to the reciever lol. i was going to do that with my usp before i sold it. i painted over my hurricane body and scuffed away the paint to expose the laser etch, it did the trick, but i actually scuffed some of the etch away in some spots, so i would just get it engraved and do yourself a favour and up the resale of your gun in that same step.

damn fine idea,,thanks for the tip!

[six4]

Originally Posted by Lerch

If you do want it painted Ken, let me know, I can take it to my shop and give a gooder.

My suggestion would be to leave the lower receiver naked and paint the upper and forward bits.

once the trades are properly engraved,ill come and see you about the paint job lerch,negative on cammo paint,i just want the stock look.

[Drake]

Okay, so related question about the engraver; where would you get that done? I take it it would require some kind of CNC engraving? There's a lot of small text, I have a hard time imagining some dude doing it by hand and it not coming out looking like it was written in crayon by a 6 year old...

[six4]

Originally Posted by Drake

Okay, so related question about the engraver; where would you get that done? I take it it would require some kind of CNC engraving? There's a lot of small text, I have a hard time imagining some dude doing it by hand and it not coming out looking like it was written in crayon by a 6 year old...

im not entirely sure on that one,im researching it myself. i heard of someone in around the langley surrey bc area that is the go to guy for custom work. once i know i will post up the related contact info.

[six4]

GOT IT!! thanks to "jumpin" from b.c.a.c. for having this information available. i copy pasted the info.

( as quoted by "jumpin" )

To all those who enquired where I got my lower receiver engraved with Diemaco C8 markings and my own custom serial number, and my Pelican case foam cut for my equipment:

The place is Insigno Engraving in Surrey: 106-19331 Enterprise Way
Surrey, (604) 532-1108, 1 (866) 526-1108, sales@insigno.ca. I am pretty sure the guy's name is James. He was super-nice, really interested in airsoft, and totally committed to doing a quality job! Mention the job he did for me and he will probably be able to pull the template files we made for cutting the foam off the computer.

[attack-beaver]

swat your my hero know i can finally go ahead and do my USP idea.

[leblanc74]

thank you....very nice to know

[Drake]

Oooh, I see the type of engraving place that is (they have a website, www.insigno.ca) -- awards, promo products, etc.

Should be able to locate someone locally... thanks Six4

[six4]

Originally Posted by Drake

Oooh, I see the type of engraving place that is (they have a website, www.insigno.ca) -- awards, promo products, etc.

Should be able to locate someone locally... thanks Six4

actually thanks go out to swatt 13 for engraving idea and to jumpin for having the info posted, i just relayed the info

[rockafella]

Originally Posted by Drake

They look laser etched or something... not much you can do (that I know of) to save them if you paint it, short of getting them engraved first (how handy are you with a Dremel? :P )

There's a place here in town that does laser engraveing, but other than haveing some stickets made (white writeing on clear background) I'm not sure what yu would do. Where would one get some laser etching done?