Mag rifle - Need input

[Toll]

So I finally got this thing firing and now I have to work on aesthetics

To bring everyone up to speed, this is an Automag set in some pine with spray paint. Everything but the automag it's self is scratch built and this was kind of prototype of more to come. What I need from folks is suggestions on how to finish it/what would look like its supposed to be there. Right now I feel its missing something and I can't put my finger on what. I've got an inkling that I can do air on gun by putting a 9oz co2 under the foregrip/barrel area and hiding it with some sort of bipod contraption...which makes the gun ridiculously heavy for something made out of pine

There's no engraving, there's no inlay, there's really nothing and it feels and looks very, very plain. The magazine is going to get larger I believe but thats the only thing I can think of thats set in stone. I think it just looks too bland as it is. Thinking about putting a foreguard on the barrel as well so that there's a bit more to look at rather than flat olive and black.


Before paint


After paint




For the record, I got alot of inspiration for the build from




Ideas are great and welcome. Ideas with visuals are all that much more welcome. Everything can change now that I have the internals where I want them to the point where I could say change even the fundimentals (eg : make it look like a dragunov/m14, etc)

[Frizzle Fry]

Looks like a hell of a start!


If it were my baby, I'd add...

-Padded Butt Plate

-Triggerguard

-Ajustable-height cheek pad

-Offset red-dot scope

-Forgegrip (not vertical, just something to make it more comfy)

-Folding bipod

-3.5oz c02 tank where the faux-magazine, is or a 9oz tank in the stock.


Lastly I'd go out an either get textured wrinkle-finish Krylon and repaint the stock, or use a spray-on truck bedliner with a textured finish. Either option will make it less susceptable to damage, feel better in your hands, disguise the fact that it's wood, catch less light and reflect less, and of course make it look more like a real-steel tactical rifle.

[Toll]

Buttplate : Shotgun buttpad sound about right? I'm pretty sure I can get one for Sub 10$, a good start

Trigger guard : Attatching it is tough. I believe I will bend a fork and attatch it to the new, larger magazine (which I think I will plunge route...because it looks so drab)

Scope : this is something I have in the works. Im basically turning it into a 12 round tube feed up top and hiding it with the "sighting" assembly. Hard to explain but something thats in the works.


Where do they sell this particular krylon? I've had no luck tracking it down at all.

[Frizzle Fry]

Buttplate : Shotgun buttpad sound about right? I'm pretty sure I can get one for Sub 10$, a good start

Trigger guard : Attatching it is tough. I believe I will bend a fork and attatch it to the new, larger magazine (which I think I will plunge route...because it looks so drab)

Scope : this is something I have in the works. Im basically turning it into a 12 round tube feed up top and hiding it with the "sighting" assembly. Hard to explain but something thats in the works.


Where do they sell this particular krylon? I've had no luck tracking it down at all.

Any butplate can be modded to fit that thing, from $5 to $50... That's what's nice about making the stock yourself and using wood

I would prime it with 2 coats of black Krylon Fusion (must be Fusion-brand) and then use a can of Duplicolor Bed Liner. It will cost under $25 to do the whole stock, and it holds up for years... The rifle I did this way has about 3 solid years of play on it without so much as a smudge, crinkle or crack.

[Toll]

Work in progress of the day :

Made some bits up to flesh the peice out a bit. Still have alot of painting/finishing/glueing and such to do but I think I like where its headed. Colours are probably going to be black on the "magazine" and a lighter shade of olive/greeno on the inlay/anything that isnt the magazine. I have one more functional bit to add that I havent quite figured out. In theory its going to let the user add a red dot and have it be for more than just show.

[Toll]

Im definately going to have to go with that bedliner idea...Right now it just looks too "toyish" for my tastes. Even as matte as it gets its just too clean, too flat, too smooth.

[Frizzle Fry]

I like where you're going, especially the cheek rest. I'd use an olive bedliner for the body if that's the look you're going for (though I'm not 100% sure you'll find olive for as cheap as black) then do all the aditional parts (magazine, foregrip trim, cheekrest, etc) in a matte black.

Either way, it looks like it's really coming along

[Toll]

For the bedliner, can I paint over it if I decided I just wanted the texture? Or even easier than that, does it come in clear?

In addition, could I put that bedliner over the current finish and just overlay it? Its krylon compatible stuff.

I already wasted the money on the can of "khaki" spray so I think I might try to keep it like that.
Correct me if I'm wrong here:


1) Spray on liner (since there's already a heavy base down)
2) Hit it with 2x light coats of olive/etc
3) Seal it with a light coat of Matte laquer


I have part in mind that is going to hold my "stock class feed" on there and work as a riser but machining little finicky parts out of wood is quite bothersome.