spray painting gun

[Seb1990]

hey i was wondering if i had a gun that was allreay camo'd, and i wanted to re camo for diff colour, would i be able to spray paint it again to get a nice clear colour then once again respray it for the colour i want? or would it ruin the gun?

[TokyoSeven]

Well the lazy way would be to simply spray over it. The results of how well the end product will look will vary. The best way is to take the time and paitents and slowly remove the exisiting paint via soft steal wool or a fine brush or whatever method you believe or can research to fit the job. One the paint is off you can either prime and paint or simply repaint.

[L473ncy]

Just make sure you have a base coat when you repaint it because sometimes undercoats will actually show up, so if it's already camo'ed then prime it with black and put an overcoat. That's the "lazy mans way".

The better way would be to strip it off with something SUPER soft, not like a kiwi cloth but something that would abrade the paint but not destroy it.

When you paint, primers do two things, make the overcoat stick better AND they prevent any under colours from showing.

ie. you want to paint your car a new colour, well you would probably want to do a neutral primer coat to make sure the colour underneath doesn't show through (unless that's the effect you want).

Also it's better to do a few light primer coats than a heavy one.

One more thing, white primer is better for lighter colours and black primer better for darker colours, so if you're doing a dark colour like forest green, earth brown, etc. then best bet is a black primer, whereas if you want to make your gun like that Hello Kitty M4 then white is probably a better choice.

[Muffin]

If the intial coat of paint has adhered properly, it shouldn't be a problem. If it is lifting, chipping or flaking, to what Tokyo Seven suggested.
How is the original job? What paint was used?

[Luckless]

Big question that needs to be answers: What is the base material made of?

If it is plastic, then I would be wary of removing paint. Light sanding only with very fine paper.

Of course how you do it depends on just how even the current paint job is.