This posting is abit off topic, sorry folks.
GW
Howdy RJ,
No, I never thought to take any photos of the rifles or shotguns, but I can take some pics of one I did for a guy I work with, but, it will be after I get my neck all healed up. (I am not really outwardly mobile right now).
As for how I do the guns, first now I dont strip or sand them, I do however spray them down with electrical contact cleaner to degrease them, then I paint the entire gun flat machine gray. I let that dry, and then, taking a "center page" from the newspaper (a two page fold) and tear an irregularly shaped 1" strip from corner to corner, wet it and wrap it spirally around the length of the gun making sure all the excess water is off the paper before doing so. Then I spary the entire "uncovered area" with a flat olive drab. I let that dry, remove the paper and then wrap it again with another piece of paper in the same fashion and add flat black. Let it dry, remove the paper and with my air brush, I put in the "treebark" pattern, I then add leaves vines etc and when finished I spray the entire gun with testors Dullcote. Oh, I forgot to say I use testors enamels for the paint and testors airbrushes.
I used to paint the guns by hand and it would take me about 8 hrs to complete one, but then I bought a new airbrush and cut that time down to about 1 &
½ hrs. I guarentee all my work for the life of the gun, if they scratch the paint, rub it off or anything like that, I redo them for free. But so far I have only had to redo 1 gun out of the 40 to 50 I have done. The process is abit more detailed than what I typed above, but not much more. Below is a computer drawn rendition of the steps for painting a shotgun that I did a few years ago for my old website. I used to have the detailed instructions, but you can look at each step and follow along with what I wrote above. Have a good day, Greg aka GW ps. Yes I also do computer drawings lol