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You have two choices: Since the base scope is brass, many start out by painting it brass with the black as a top coat. Then if you lightly sand certain areas, the brass will come through mimicking a weathered scope. OR...you can paint it black first, them detail and dry brush it with brass to weather it. Eaither way, gloss black is a little too glossy for a blaster. You want to stick with a matte or satin black.

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Brass is metal, metal needs an etch primer or at least 'a' primer that sticks to metal to provide a base for the black coat.

 

Stay away from any type of paint that is enamel based.....they are cheap, soft, take forever to cure/harden and will basically always remain soft....they true cure point is trapped evaporation.

 

Some of the modeling paints are good because they are evaporation paints based on meth/lacquer thinners.....which are fast evaporators.

 

Go to an auto parts store and get acrylic lacquer based etch/primer and black....they dry fast, stick to almost everything and are fine based particles.

 

For the size of the work and the detail, but a cheap airbrush, spray cans are too blast radius heavy ;)

 

Good luck

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Eli, thanks for the info going to the auto parts store at lunch to see what I can find!!

No worries :) .....you have a really nice scope, but a $15 airbrush from most bulk hardware stores will make a huge difference that any aerosols when it comes to painting it.

 

Good luck

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