Sprayed My Marker

[Tom]

Any particular type of paint you used? A few of us want to try it but don't want to bugger it up, so i am going to be the guinea pig, and use a couple of old bt combats we have kicking around.

Car paints will do the job - but will mainly be in gloss so end up shiney

Many good paintjobs have been done with duracoat and you should find plenty of guides via Google and YouTube
Principles are to strip it, clean / degrease it
Under coat followed by many light coats
And if you want it to last then finish with a coat of laquer

 

[IVSHINOBIVI]

Thanks for the tip! I will pick up some paint after work and try it tomorrow afternoon.

 

[Scadds]

Any particular type of paint you used? A few of us want to try it but don't want to bugger it up, so i am going to be the guinea pig, and use a couple of old bt combats we have kicking around.

Any particular type of paint you used? A few of us want to try it but don't want to bugger it up, so i am going to be the guinea pig, and use a couple of old bt combats we have kicking around.

I used halfords camouflage spray, they do 4 or so different colours.
Drys really fast and nice a nice Matt finish..

I stared degreasing the marker with halfords break cleaner, I sprayed it onto a rag rather than spraying it onto the marker and soaking it !

Then removed any rubber parts,masking any areas you don't want to spray or spray paint getting into..

gave it a good couple coats of grey primer

First base coat of green, prob 3-4 coats on each side

Then found lots of foliage and sprayed away,making up the design as I went along..

Never done a top coat of clear as I was worried even the Matt Lacquer would shine!

Like tom said, there are loads of youtube vids & google for designs to see what design u may want to do..

 

[Scadds]

http://www.halfords.com/motoring-travel/cleaning-body-repair/specialist-decorative-paints/halfords-camouflage-spray-paint-green-300ml

 

[baconquilt]

came out great, well done.

 

[IVSHINOBIVI]

Thankyou Scadds. I have plenty of foliage around to spray over. I think I may put a layer of lacquer on though. I would be concerned about scratching the paint in the bag.

 

[Scadds]

No problem bud, good luck with it bud .. post some pics up when you finished..

I'm also tad worried about it scratching off in the bag or while playing, may do some searching around for a good Matt lacquer

 

[Jamie Hamilton]

That actually looks really good

 

[ellie123]

that looks amazing would consider trying that if my marker got to scratched up or lost its colour

 

[rewind]

have you lacquered it up after the spray job? looks great!, but I would consider a final lacquer to protect it from use.