More Fun With Colorfill!

Well I thought that I would take another shot at color filling as my last results turned out great! This time the victim is a Smith and Wesson M&P 9. I do plan on getting this pistol Cerakoted later on but for the time being, I needed to do something to break up all the black. Conveniently, my awesome wife was shopping the other day and picked up a new nail polish color that she thought would look great on one of the firearms (and on her fingernails to duh!)... How rad is that?


When working with firearms, be safe and make sure the firearm is unloaded. These are firearms not toys, and as such they need to be treated, handled, assembled, maintained, and operated with a certain amount of respect. In all following pictures, the firearm is not loaded and pointed in a safe direction.


Anyway, so the materials needed are the same as before;
Paper towels
Nail polish/lacquer
Nail polish remover or pure acetone
Time
A clean gun...


Let's start with some before pictures so you know what I am working with;

If you look closely in the above pictures, there are fuzzies (no other word for them) inset in the slide engravings that I am going to color fill. This is why you want to make sure that the firearm is clean before starting. Those fuzzies will keep the nail polish from properly adhering to the gun and it will not last as long. One quick air compressor blast is all it takes to clear this out so we can continue.


After making sure the areas to be filled are clean and free of debris, apply dollops of the fingernail polish so that you can no longer see the lettering underneath. The reason behind this is that as it dries, some of the fingernail polish evaporates, leaving only the color pigments behind. This causes the polish to reduce slightly. Besides, if you put on too much, you will just clean it off anyway later!


Here it is during the drying process;

Once it is mostly dry or completely dry depending on how impatient you are, dampen a folded paper towel with either nail polish remover or acetone and wipe smoothly and lightly in one direction so as to not spread the extra polish around. Use as many swipes as needed and make sure they are LIGHT! Otherwise you will pull the polish out of the grooves that you are filling in... and then you will have to repeat the whole process!


Here is the finished product;

The polish that I used is Covergirl's "non-stop stone" number 210. It is a earthy grey that I though did a great job of breaking up the all black nature of the firearm. Here is a picture of the UPC if you want to search for it;