Changed my AR's clothes. Hows she look

[chrissmallwood]

Hi all. I decided to change the furniture on my AR. I went to the gunshow here in Seymour and found an OD A2 stock and a railed forend. I had a 6pos stock on there but when I shoot it I only shoot it with it in the fully open position so the A2 works for me. The forend isnt anything special but it was a good price and I figured I could try it out and see if I like it. I painted the forend to match but its a bit off.

It matched pretty good but I put a clearcoat on it and it made it a bit brighter especially in the pictures. Its not actually that bright in person. Im going to paint the stock to match and Ill post the pics when I get that
done.

What do you think?

 

[451_Detonics]

Personally I like OD green furniture on a rifle...this had beat up wood when I started...

 

[chrissmallwood]

Thats pretty cool. I originally wasnt sure what I thought of it but the more I look at it the more I like it.

 

[Thumper]

The red white and blue is a nice touch.

 

[remymartin]

DPMS gets a bad rep from time to time. I have several AR's and I'd grab my DPMS first. I too, like the OD. My DPMS is FDE because they were out of stock on OD and I am impatient. Looks good, just resist the temptation to hang a bunch of crap on it, its a rifle not a swiss army knife.

 

[chrissmallwood]

The red white and blue is a nice touch.

Thanks. I did that right after I got it. Took forever to get it right.


Remymartin-I dont plan to hang too much on it. I have a red dot sight I'd like to use but it kept hitting the rear sight so I figured it might work better on the forend. Other than that I dont have any plans to put other stuff on it.

 

[sepe]

Personally I like OD green furniture on a rifle...this had beat up wood when I started...

That is pretty but I'm sticking with wood on mine. My wood isn't nicked up or anything, just a bit of wear from handling (slight discoloration).


I have a DPMS lower that I'm building an SBR on. I've heard lots of good and bad about DPMS but if it runs fine I'll be quite happy with it. For now everything will just be staying black, not really sure what color I want.

 

[chrissmallwood]

Here's an updated pic now that the paints dry.

Matches a little better now.

 

[snowman]

Looks nice,,, it gives it a different, personal touch. I have the same forend, it works good.

 

[IndianaResident]

Colorful alright. It does look better once you got that gloss off the rails.

Nice.

 

[Redemption]

Why would a grown man use crayons on his rifle?

 

[chrissmallwood]

I actually used paint markers with a cloth covered credit card and hoppes# 9 to remove the excess. I was proud of it since I did a good a job on it and it adds some color to an otherwise colorless rifle.

 

[rfontes]

looks way better after the paint dried and painted the stock to match. i got a dpms too, good stuff...

 

[billt]

DPMS gets a bad rep from time to time. I have several AR's and I'd grab my DPMS first.

I find Bushmaster to be much the same. They get a lot of unjust badmouthing, especially from the mall ninja crowd over at ARFCOM. These are my 5 and all of them run like a raped ape. Not a single malfunction in literally thousands of rounds. Both factory and reloads. I'll grab any of them over my Colts. Bill T.

 

[billt]

I actually used paint markers with a cloth covered credit card and hoppes# 9 to remove the excess. I was proud of it since I did a good a job on it and it adds some color to an otherwise colorless rifle.

+1.

I like the China Marker letter fill. I have them in red and white, but I have yet to muster up the courage to try them. I've seen the Bushmaster "Snake" logo done in red, and it looks really sharp. I've used the Bonanza Gold fill kit on several guns, all with good results. You just have to work fast, and not try to do too large of an area at once. Bill T.

 

[U.S. Patriot]

Looks good, did you use Krylon paint? I painted the furniture on my AK OD green and really like it.

 

[451_Detonics]

Nice thing about the green furniture on my CETME was the cost, 12 bucks for pistol grip, stock with buffer, and forend. My AR on the other hand is coyote tan...

 

[Hayseed_40]

I changed my son's AR to all OD green. Did not do it to look cool or like some HSLD person - my son likes the color and I think it looks good.

 

[IndianaResident]

These are my 5 and all of them run like a raped ape.

wtf does that even mean, ha. Very funny.

 

[chrissmallwood]

Looks good, did you use Krylon paint? I painted the furniture on my AK OD green and really like it.

Yes, I used Krylon's Italian Olive Indoor/Outdoor paint. The clearcoat I put on it brightens it up a bit in the pictures though.

billt-For me it worked best to completely fill in the logo and let it dry then slowly take off the excess. I tried going fast at first but it doesnt work well with the oil based paint markers I was using.