For you FDE people, try a GOLD crayon!

Krayzied · #1 03-26-2012, 12:50 PM

Just got my 15-22, always wondered how they painted the lettering and was in amazement when I found out it was a crayon. Well I bought mine all black but added a lil FDE to it..found out that the color GOLD in crayon worked best, not tan or tumble weed. Check it out. Needs a lil work here n there and the pics are from my phone, sorry:

stavman11 · #2 03-26-2012, 12:58 PM

SWEET

Time for me ta try and Color i think

LOL......

Krayzied · #3 03-26-2012, 01:04 PM

Ya it was surprisingly very easy. I used my Break Free and a lil cloth to wipe it off. My buddy did his Mini14 last night and used his saliva and shirt, sick yes I know. With this crayon knowledge I about to go thru all my guns and see what I can color ha.

Cleandean · #4 03-26-2012, 01:07 PM

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Originally Posted by stavman11

SWEET

Time for me ta try and Color i think

LOL......

I HAVE DONE THAT WITH EMBOSSED REAR SIGHT BLADES. [RUGER MK. II ] etc. YOUR style of customization works for your purpose.

Iggy · #5 03-26-2012, 01:23 PM

Watch it melt and run while laying in direct sunlight or when the gun warms up from firing.

c7aea · #6 03-26-2012, 01:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Iggy

Watch it melt and run while laying in direct sunlight or when the gun warms up from firing.

Are you speaking from experience? This hasn't happened to me…

I also used crayon on my glock 36 slide which I use for EDC. It has held up fine, but I will probably redo that in a lacquer paint. I just wanted to how it would look 1st.

Tango · #7 03-26-2012, 01:42 PM

Haha too friggin cool! Thanks a ton!

Tango · #8 03-26-2012, 01:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Iggy

Watch it melt and run while laying in direct sunlight or when the gun warms up from firing.

Who cares, it was a 3 minute job, I'll simply wipe and re-apply

Mr Pokeyman · #9 03-26-2012, 02:22 PM

I went to Michaels Craft store and bought a small bottle of Neon orange paint. I applied it with a q-tip. It took several coats because I smeared it all over the stamped area and after a couple minutes I wiped it clean with a cloth. That caused some paint to come out of the recessed areas so it took several coats. After it dried I put some fingernail clear over it. I just have too much time on my hands. I have some of those q-tips lying on my desk, I'm going to go clean out my dog's ears.

Brett248Vista · #10 03-26-2012, 04:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Iggy

Watch it melt and run while laying in direct sunlight or when the gun warms up from firing.

Many thousands of rounds through mine.. It's sat out in the sun as well. Never had an issue with the Tacti-Crayola(tm) melting.

bushidoMP9 · #11 03-26-2012, 05:14 PM

Gonna have to apply the GOLD tonight

jemrey81 · #12 03-26-2012, 06:30 PM

So I have seen this done a ton of times on many different guns, but I never looked into the process.... do you just rub the crayon across the letters and then wipe off the extra? Or is it a heat / melting process that you use? I just started getting some OD Green accessories for mine to dress it up and match my OD Green XD - and I think some crayon would be cool too.