viewtopic.php?f=13&t=10992 My efforts and a couple of others are above. Plus the thread below is my efforts on my thompson and trench gun... vie...
While I agree with most of what's been said, here's some practical advice for making kit look used, because that was the request after all ! In rough...
How are you getting on with this one ? I'd love to see the results.
I use... http://www.leprevo.co.uk/photos/carnauba.html almost exclusively. Myself and my other half make a LOT of leather...
I'm really genuinely sorry to hear your news, but I completely understand. I've organised LARP events on and off for most of my adult life so I fully ...
That's the fella. Anything with graphite in it is exactly whet you want.
Here's my take on it... http://www.ww2airsoft.org.uk/php/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=11827 I read the one you posted an...
I've PM'd CW but I thought I'd post here just in case. I'm having to cancel for a wide range of reasons, so apologies to all the organisers for a las...
I've just done the same thing to my Marui M4 (I KNOW it's not WW2 !!!). It took about 15 minutes and it looks fantastic now, rather than like a lump ...
Mine too Have you done anything with the front end of your's. I've gone as far as I can now without making any changes to the front end, but I haven...
It's now varnished with clear car varnish, but it very scratch prone.
Second try on the paint job today after a screwed up first attempt. I tried airbrushing ink straight onto the black plastic and as I suspected it did...
Well I've just found my style inspiration Gillie to the local Laird I think.-- attachment is not available --
Just found this, which is a very nice resource that starts in the early 30's but gets into the early war years.
gave it an undercoat of brown plasticote paint, Does that not fill in the sanding marks ? I was aiming at trying to keep the sanding showing as wood...
The final process for tonight was to sand down the "Woodwork" with the heaviest grain sandpaper I could find to try and create a grain effec...
The heatsheild was treated differently as it's aluminium (I assume). I considered nitromorsing it back to bare metal, but in the end decided to attac...
So first the easy bits... After a complete sanding, I wet and dried all the plastic "metalwork" then applied 2 coats of fire black (graphit...
Step one, break it into manageable chunks and sand the whole thing all over with fine sandpaper. I didn't bother stripping the pump from the barrel, ...