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Metal Barrel Painting
Manchu34
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Missouri, United States
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Posted: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 - 06:46 PM UTC
Building my first model that included a metal main gun barrel. Is there any special way to paint it? Such as priming, sanding, etc?
viper29_ca
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Posted: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 - 07:04 PM UTC
Don't take it as gospel....but I would say a primer coat and paint as normal....basically normal. Same way they paint cars.
sgtreef
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Posted: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 - 11:01 PM UTC
I make sure that it is real clean and a good scrufing with 1200 grit paper then a good water and soap wash and let dry apply regular paint never had a problem!
Major_Goose
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Posted: Thursday, February 05, 2004 - 12:20 AM UTC
i believe that priming would do some good with an automotive primer
capnjock
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Posted: Thursday, February 05, 2004 - 03:56 AM UTC
I would first sand the barrel to remove any tooling marks. Then fine sand for tooth. Prime and then paint as normal as was mentioned above. I use the primer for metal figures but any metal primer should work.
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Manchu34
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Posted: Thursday, February 05, 2004 - 09:30 AM UTC
Thanks for the help.
Katyusha
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Posted: Thursday, February 05, 2004 - 11:17 AM UTC
One other thing after, make sure you give it a good coat of grey paint covering the whole barrel and anything else metal, make sure that no tiny, maybe even microsopic metal part goes unpainted.

~Katyusha~
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