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Designing A Custom Paint At A New Gun Shop

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I have wanted to perform a custom paint job on one of my rifles for a long time. I first learned of people painting guns while at a new gun shop. The owner of the shop had a binder full of pictures of guns that he had painted. Upon seeing this I wanted to learn how to create amazing styles of camouflage and other designs for my rifles as well. I went onto the internet and watched videos on how to properly paint a firearm. I learned that to create the best effects was to paint the gun using a gravity feed air brush. When I tried to procure an air brush to complete this project a problem occurred in the shipping. Somewhere along the route my air brush kit was misplaced and was unable to be found. This meant that I had to perform the paint …show more content…

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