BigFootWitness

For some reason this pictures make the gun's paintjob look really bad but here the updated pistol is now, the other one is dissassembled so i couldn't take a picture comparing them.

This gun is now shiny black and has a chrome barrel tip,

Forsaken_angel24, on Aug 25 2007, 03:17 PM, said:

1 Pure energy paintball tank $175
1 Custom products Long Reg $98

like i said the regulator and the energy tank take up the majority of the price tag, luckily I have that and quite alot of other stuff so I won't be spending so much luckily lol.

Yeah with that price of $400 i now understand why you put on the title of the thread, "What have I done?" haha

RAMBO, on Aug 5 2007, 09:29 AM, said:

I believe he said he spent over $250 on the whole project.

He never said how much he spent, he said he spends $250 every year on halloween parties.

I would think though that he spent somewhere around $100 with the majority of that being the compressed air tank and the regulator.


Hey by the way Forsaken angel, my RF20 doesn't work because of a leak with the pump, but I am interested in building what you have done and the conversion over to compressed air will bring this gun back to life!

"I just saved alot of money on gieco"

but for me,

"I just saved alot of money thanks to Forsaken angel " (and plus I have all the regulators and compressed air tanks so this probably will cost me at max like $50 since I have the majority of everything)

SHADOW HUNTER ALPHA, on Aug 24 2007, 11:06 AM, said:

Does it matter if he's not shooting anyone?

BigFoot: Does the paint make the slide difficult to pull back (because the portion of the gun that it slides on is thicker), or is there not really any noticeable difference? Also, what grit sandpaper (or what Dremel bit) did you use to get such a smooth look?

Haha yeah the darts me and a friend made one night just for the hell of it, we aren't and don't plan on shooting anybody with it, but if somebody breaks into the house then im gonna see what those darts can do lol!! JK

The first paint job i did with the pistol i didn't put much paint on, I was using some dupli-color black paint but it was near empty so it wouldn't spray out very good, and we only put on one coat. Yeah well me and my friend spent like an hour sanding the pistol down, we used 220 grit, 320 grit and 400 grit sandpaper (not sure what order, i just used whatever sandpaper i could find really). We got tired after awhile then we decided to flip a bike upside down and tape some sand paper around the tire and one of us would pedal with our hands (since it was upside down) and shift up and the other one would hold the part we wanted sanded to the spinning tire with the sandpaper on it, notice on the right side of the gun the part where i sanded the line off there is a little imperfection, well the spinning sandpaper bike tire sanded it to the point where it broke through, yeah a hillbilly style sanding did that lol. After we had sanded enough we decided to do the rest that was left with just the sand paper and our hands. We also wet sanded it and then used a fine grade steel wool on it. Then we painted it. (And of course before all of this we disassembled the gun)

well I am having trouble getting this pistol to have a decent paint job. I just bought some Krylon gloss black paint and began repainting the gun, I gave it about 2-3 coats with at most 24 hours drying time in between. Once I assembled it though the trigger was stuck once it was pulled in and the slide would be ruff too, so I disassembled it again and began sanding the paint off spots of the trigger and slide and then tried to assembly it again, only before we did we tinkered with other things trying to see if we could somehow get more power out of it but it would not fit so we would have to take it apart again, etc etc. Basically the new paint job isn't that good either. I'll post pictures of it repainted soon when i can get ahold of my camera.

Direct threat I really like your paintjob you got going there, it reminds me of the gun in Gears of War with the Chainsaw bayonet.

Okay so I took this N-strike pistol, I sanded the N-strike emblem off the grips, I sanded "Nerf" off, i sanded the caution and warning writing off and I sanded the lines off of the extra ammo hold. I then painted it like so:








Yet the paintjob was very bad we used a spray paint that was low, and we did it with one coat at night, etc...Basically it may look good in the pictures but in real life it needed to be redone. So I went out and bought some Krylon gloss black spray paint and some Insta-chrome spray paint and I've been taking my time, putting on nice coats, letting it dry for 24 hours etc and when done it will look really nice. (I am painting the entire gun gloss black and then just the barrel chrome). I am also thinking of either cutting off the extra ammo holds or I am going to insert a small flash light and a laser into them.

I will post when I am done repainting it.