got a question for all of you AOers

[BAZOOKA_Boy]

so I am getting another mag soon, and it is all black, kinda boring, not at all my style, I like to have something unique, flashy, and definately going to turn heads, so my question for the entire AO community is what colors should I anodize my personal gun. I am an anodizer for those that do not know, and I do have nearly all colors imaginable...

my only parameters:::

-has to be a gloss (I am not and never will be a fan of dust)
-keep it to at most 3 colors, and preferably a wash
-it has to be something totally unique that will look nice, no ugly gun here
-whatever the top idea is, if I think its doable, it will be done

pics of the gun, well I don't have any at the moment, so my description, milled rail, inteli, ULE body, 15* foregrip, bike handle, and the rest is all pretty standard, I am wanting to do the valve also, idk if that changes anything but letting you know!

so help me out and give me some good ideas that you would love to see done on a mag (attractive ideas that are not over done if done at all)

BTW, I would like to have an idea before wendsday, as thats when the gun is coming in, or around there, and I want to finish it before the weekend so I can show it off at one of my local super games

[chafnerjr]

the anno less taken.

How bright and flash are we talking? You said you might prefer a wash... I've never asked but can anyone do a candy anno? (Various layers of color to make the candy illusion)?

In any event I am noticing quite a few variations on olive drab now-a-days so if your trying to stand out amongst the crowd that might not be a good choice. I love blue, but haven't really found any examples of a blue anno that I like completely. Red seems to be an easy one to get right and stands out even in low light... Champagne is used by a lot of ego owners I've seen in this neck of the woods.

Personally I'm polishing everything that I have, but if I were to anno mine I would probably run a deep electrtic blue starting at the tip of the marker and fading back into silver beyond the feedneck... then with a line of silver starting halfway down the barrel spreading slowly until it became an almost lighting like "splash" near the transition between the blue and silver...

Then again that's just me... do you have color pref's?

[Gabriel]

you should offer a discount to the person who helps you pick your finish!

That being said, My dream anno job would have to be:

Yellow base, blue and red splash.

or

Polish blue base, yellow and pink splash.

I'm going to do my pump gun one of those, prolly the yellow (when I get a pump gun, that is )

[bunny5]

BAZOOKA_Boy:
I'll volunteer to help photoshop a couple of the ideas you think you may like.

[Rudz]

black with purple and blue sponge anno!!!!

[warbeak2099]

Black and orange gloss splash with silver flakes.

[Draken]

Ok, you want flashy and no more then 3 colors...how about a red to blue fade with a yellow or black splash?

[snoopay700]

Ok, i've got it, do a red body and feedneck, white rail, and blue trigger frame.

If you don't, you're a communist cause you hate america.

[Gabriel]

Ok, i've got it, do a red body and feedneck, white rail, and blue trigger frame.

If you don't, you're a communist cause you hate america.

why are you winking at pinko commies you traitor!?

:rofl:

[snoopay700]

why are you winking at pinko commies you traitor!?

:rofl:

Have you seen some of those female russian models? Sure they're communists, but communists can still be hot. :rofl:

[BAZOOKA_Boy]

I will do the discount thing, so whoever comes up with my idea gets 50% off , I have to move my anno stuff again, as my shop got "shut down" due to some issues with my employee's marital status (my shop was at his place)

anyway, I have no preferences of colors really, its just that black is so boring, and I HATE...yes thats right hate olive, too woodsbally, even though I play woodsball most of the time, I still like to stand out

here are pics of my other guns, so you know what I do not want to do the same as:::








some of my own ideas, but keep on weaving away from them:

-black, blue and green wash
-clear to black fade splash with a copper to yellow fade base (I know its 4 colors, but clear doesn't count really)
-pewter and clear wash
-gold effects done with my airbrush, to look like paisley with a light pewter background to look more metallic like silver or platinum (I just need to find some good cardboard stencils for that one)
-similar idea with a green and clear washed background (to look like marble), but something other than paisley, some sort of extremely wild design that you would see gold leafed onto something expensive

those are my ideas, so you can take those and run with them if you wish, the last 2 were the ones I was leaning most to, but still was at a block as what to do, so many choices that I can do, and only one I can pick! lol

[Tao]

I will do the discount thing, so whoever comes up with my idea gets 50% off , I have to move my anno stuff again, as my shop got "shut down" due to some issues with my employee's marital status (my shop was at his place)

anyway, I have no preferences of colors really, its just that black is so boring, and I HATE...yes thats right hate olive, too woodsbally, even though I play woodsball most of the time, I still like to stand out

here are pics of my other guns, so you know what I do not want to do the same as:::








some of my own ideas, but keep on weaving away from them:

-black, blue and green wash
-clear to black fade splash with a copper to yellow fade base (I know its 4 colors, but clear doesn't count really)
-pewter and clear wash
-gold effects done with my airbrush, to look like paisley with a light pewter background to look more metallic like silver or platinum (I just need to find some good cardboard stencils for that one)
-similar idea with a green and clear washed background (to look like marble), but something other than paisley, some sort of extremely wild design that you would see gold leafed onto something expensive

those are my ideas, so you can take those and run with them if you wish, the last 2 were the ones I was leaning most to, but still was at a block as what to do, so many choices that I can do, and only one I can pick! lol

What I was thinking of are on the lines of the style of #3 and 4. I paint miniatures (you might think this is obscure in relivance to paintball ) and I personally like using 3 colours in unison on a model (with maybe a 4th on details)

My suggestions are:

-yellow/red/blue-violet or blue/violet/silver (closer to pastel shades)
fade comboed with the mix effect that your #3 and 4 guns have
(the violet can be hard to mix into the red but I have done it with success)

[BAZOOKA_Boy]

What I was thinking of are on the lines of the style of #3 and 4. I paint miniatures (you might think this is obscure in relivance to paintball ) and I personally like using 3 colours in unison on a model (with maybe a 4th on details)

My suggestions are:

-yellow/red/blue-violet or blue/violet/silver (closer to pastel shades)
fade comboed with the mix effect that your #3 and 4 guns have
(the violet can be hard to mix into the red but I have done it with success)

the red and violet do not actually mix that much dye wise, but fade very nicely together and are easy to keep separated enough to differentiate them, but yellows/bright greens and violet do not get along at all! there are certain colors that do not mix well, and others that just make awesome colors when mixed right...

and yes, guns 3 and 4 are my 2 washed guns currently, the Ecocker is light blue, dark blue, and clear and the pump is blue and violet...

[thahouse]

i was thinking of a nice medium green base with yellow and brown swirl splash..hard to explain, but it looks great in my mental picture...lol..if that makes sense.

[cyrus-the-virus]

damn you.... I was so set on what I was going to anno my e-mag...... I saw that e-cocker and you've made me question myself!!!! GARGH.....