I think the tan looks fine, Beemer. 
Methinks your colour OCD is making you too fussy! 
But why did the grip spray up a different colour? Can you spray it with white undercoat and hit it with the same paint you used on the receiver?
Oe just spray black over it if you’re not happy. Which shade of black, may I ask? You’ve got 50 to choose from. 
The positive with black is you don’t need to spray the grip… so no paint to wear off that high wear area down the track.
Oh, and the way to stop Tamiya blobs is to always use a near full can, clean the nozzle in between uses and start your spray run off the blaster and end it the same way. 
Go camo! 
“Rattler” brings back some memories
Great idea having patterns available though.
Do a Camo paint… this badger was literally just ripped A4 paper and a beer with 5 cans of rust-oleum Camo flat paint.
It’s far from perfect but that’s the idea of Camo paint!
i’ve given the matter some thought…
Best bet might be to go to bunnings, check out the samples and have a little trial pot mixed up.
you can get 250 ml trial pots mixed up, which would be enough to spray a blaster.
The rattlecan colour is sorta close…but no… not quite right.
Just needs to be a little more yellow…like a manilla folder.
Also, the fire select is now behaving wierdly…
ive lost safe… ‘safe’ gives full auto…
‘semi’ and ‘full auto’ , give semi …weird.
i pulled it apart in the semi posn, and reassembled the same way…
Are you talking about the tan EVO?
It can be tricky to close the shell up and have the fire select cam lined up and engaged with the actuator on the gearbox.
I guarantee it will be that… can’t be anything else. The best way to check is to take off the right side of the receiver shell, then with the gearbox sitting in the left side of the shell rotate the fire select lever into safe. If this little arm here…
Isn’t lifting up, then your selector cam’s not engaged properly.
A bit of pressure pushing the gearbox into the shell while you rotate the fire select lever back and forth often seats it properly. You’ll hear an audible click and that arm will pivot up and down between semi and safe.
Just be careful putting the right side back on… if the box lifts up and away from the left side even just a smidge the cam will disengage again.
P.S. The colour you’d be after is desert sand. Lighter than the tan you have now. Just be careful using Bunning’s waterbased paint… they might colour match perfectly but it’s intended for plaster walls, doesn’t stick well to plastic and not very durable on items being handled a lot. Remember the PRs.
Ahhhh. …bugger it.
i have decided, to just leave it be, and call it a day.
The safety can stay like it is…till next time.
I mucked around with the paint again, and got it a little better.
This is the final configuration…
1: Ts-46 Light Sand.
2: Coat of Tamiya smoke… a bit heavy on… get it looking a bit “diesel-y”
3: Another light spray over with TS-46. this lightens the heavy diesel look, while retaining the random imperfections.
4: TS-29 Semi Gloss Coat. This helps it gleam up a bit, and sharpens the lines / angles…
Angled afternoon sun…
Turning yellow into green…
it is what it is, and good enough…
Here it is compared to other Tan’s…
The others are darker olive-y greens… i already have a strong NATO green.
The manila folder colour , if replicated…might be a bit too yellow-y.
the bunnings sample colours were all over the place… you could go mad doing this, trying many different samples,so i think i’ll just leave it be…
Also…
the blacks are looking too new, and blemish free…
short of using silver leaf / smoke…
any way to lightly weather the blacks.?
Break them up a little , so they don’t look absolutely brand new.??
Tweedledum, and Tweedledumber…
Quite happy with the green.
Tamiya does make a slightly less dark green, but still strong ( TS-91)…
But im gonna leave it as is.
Hopefully the dress kit , will arrive fairly soon…proper angeld foregrip, and mag flare piece.
Do i need a kiwi one ( All Black) to complete the trifecta.?.?
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For the cost of buying one leaky, DB M92 gas pistol…
you can have the trifecta above…!!
I was thinking of grabbing one and repainting it for my daughter but the colour change cosmic blue rustoleum isn’t produced anymore so I’ll have to try and find another brand that does the same thing, I’m sure I’ll find something
They’re a good cheapy, for teardowns / painting.
Painted up, they look soo much better, than the original techni colour burst.
Just be very careful, with the screws.
They go in / out of ABS plastic…tighten / loosen them slowly, with minimal force.
Don’t overtighten doing them back up, or you’ll end up with a spinner…
Easy to teardown too…
Yeah I’ve stripped the odd screw here and there by accident on one or two of my other blasters, hoping to find a way to correct it a little, one screw on the pump for the young fellas shotty, the one that attaches to the mechanism, was hoping a drop of super glue of some sort in the screw hole and letting it dry overnight before reassembling it and rescrewing it might do the trick but no idea if it will work, or if it does for how long 
My Sig mags turned up from M4a1…
yours turn up OK.?
Yes, sorry I forgot to mention. Last week or so, would’ve been not long after my last message to you. I only grabbed one tho.
I did however also grab a J-12 mag from ausgel for $3 in case I decide to try the conversion, not to cop out on your idea, just for an “extended” mag. I won’t be removing my stock on the Sig 550 but the ak style mag does look dope on it
Would be a long time off doing that, if I do that tho, need more experience friggin with all this stuff first before I try something like a franken-mag
These inserts in M3…
Get some into the thread posts while the posts are still in good nick and not mutilated from continuous screw removal.
Then swap the crappy OEM self tappers over for M3 screws of your choice. No more stripped out receiver screws.
They’ll be going into my EVO and F2000 soon.
I see what you mean now, it’s more like a sand that a tan
