There's no accounting for taste...

[hAkron]

Beauty and aesthetics are certainly a subjective thing, but I'm curious what future generations will make of all of this color coating and pattern wrapping of guns. Without anybody getting their feelings hurt, and recognizing that everybody's opinion is valid, even if you don't agree with them, I would like to know what everybody's thoughts are on some of these more 'extreme' examples of gun refinishing.

I'll start. This is on armslist today. I personally think this looks terrible.

http://www.armslist.com/posts/2053210/cleveland-ohio-handguns-for-sale--springfield-champion

 

[ID-shooting]

Not fond if it. I could think of better colors to go with. That said, there will be some the "just got to have it."

 

[Foto Joe]

I'm sorry but doing that to ANY 1911 is just wrong!!

 

[YZ]

I don't find it extreme. One thing it doesn't do is cry for attention, like skulls and bones or tiger stripes. If that's cerakote, and someone wants it to blend with the woodwork, ok by me. I'd be more concerned about what is under the re-finish, and the internals.

 

[Walking Dead]

I like the colors we have choices from now days with the poly guns. But I'm not a fan of the painted on type finishes like your example. For metal guns I prefer anodized, blues and plated finishes.

And that gun is as ugly as they get to me.

 

[2wheels]

Oh man is that a Springer? Come on... Do that to a beater Rock Island if you really want to ugly up a gun...

 

[sgt127]

There a .45 that looks a lot like that at the Nimitz museum in Fredricksberg Texas. It was dug up on a beach somewhere in the Pacific. It came by its color naturally though.

 

[decoy562]

I just saw two Hi-Points at my local store that had dollar bills painted all over it :banghead:

 

[hAkron]

I just saw two Hi-Points at my local store that had dollar bills painted all over it :banghead:

Lots of guy that I grew up with would think that's about the coolest thing imaginable.

 

[NorthBorder]

If you dropped it in a privy you would never find it.

 

[BYJO4]

I will just say that it's not my style and would not own it.

 

[hAkron]

I feel a similar revulsion to this production gun

 

[Fishbed77]

Hakron, you obviously have no taste in firearms. Thou shalt not insult the Colt M45!!!!

 

[hAkron]

Hakron, you obviously have no taste in firearms. Thou shalt not insult the Colt M45!!!!

I knew that was going to be a controversial admission on my part, but I had to put it out there for all of the people who were afraid to speak up on this one for fear of being drawn and quartered.

 

[funnelcake]

I was pretty shocked to see the M45 not use a Melonite (inherently black I think) finish. By most accounts more durable and I think better suited to a military arm.

Funnel

 

[2wheels]

Now the M45 looks decent, probably because it's more of a flat color than the original picture posted.

 

[GLI45]

Man, that's just wrong. That brown thing on Armslist is borderline criminal. I'm all for customizing a 1911, but that looks more like something I'd flush, not something I'd hold in my hand and shoot.

 

[MistWolf]

Shoot, that 1911 ain't nuthin'

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Yes, they are real

 

[beatledog7]

Some of us take our pistols and our coffee black. Others like flash or just want to have something that's different.

I'm happy because matter what color you like your pistols, or rifles, or phasers for that matter, by owning them you show support for RKBA.

 

[rhinoh]

Maybe if the black parts were white a brown pistol could look ok.....


JK- yuck in either case!

 

[YZ]

There is another side to keeping up appearances. You know how many guys dress up for the range like they are going to war? Place like that, I like to dress like a nerd, got a special tweedy nerd cap at Walmart. I'd love to show up with a magenta pistol, just don't wanna spend money on it.

 

[palmetto99]

I would consider that an example of what not to do. I just got a Rock Island 1911 back from having it Cerakoted. Graphite black. Gave it a good overall even finish. The wrong color and bad application can make a nive firearm look like it was carved from a bar of soap.

 

[sgt127]

It might be that the lime green background isn't helping in that picture.

 

[Nickel Plated]

A painted on finish of ANY color will look cheap and ugly. Paint just doesn't belong on a gun.

MistWolf: Photoshopped ugly guns don't count. The top one witht he huge NV scope is clearly not real.

 

[ritepath]

I often times spray paint Airsoft, BB guns, and bows that belong to my 9yo son. That looks a lot like a paintjob I would do with wal-mart rattle cans.